Vegans - Do You Eat Bread?

i just ate at a vegan restaurant, and they serve this version of "bread" that does not rise...they don't use yeast.

so i started to wonder...do vegans not ingest yeast because is a living thing?
it's actually a fungus though, so similar to mushrooms and i am pretty sure vegans eat those.

thanks.

 

That's funny if that were the case. Yeast is actually one of the things a person needs to worry least about when eating bread. It's all the gluten and starch that wreaks havoc on the body.

 

I would buy mostly sourdough bread from the store when I was vegan because it usually is made with ingredients that are simple and vegan. Many breads are vegan, but you need to check the ingredients. Just make sure there is not milk, whey, eggs or honey (if you don't eat honey). Those can be found in some breads.

 

so vegans do eat yeast then?

 

it was ethiopian food

 

Microorganisms such as yeast are all over the place. It's impossible not to eat them much of the time. Plus, yeast is also a fungi, not an animal or an animal product. Veganism is all about not eating animal products. Therefore eating bread, drinking beer, etc is acceptable in the vegan diet. So it's weird to me that they didn't include it as an ingredient.

Did this restaurant have any fungi-related foods on the menu?

 

isn't plants a living thing ..

 

Yeah but they don't scream when you cut them down.

 

yeah i also found it odd that they didn't use yeast in their "bread," because, yes, yeast is a fungi.

but drumminmama nailed it, injera is a sourdough bread that doesn't use yeast.

this restaurant does serve mushrooms - i had shittake risotto before, very tasty.

or we just can't hear them

 

There is naturally occurring yeast on wheat, it's how they leavened bread since the beginning, they just add water and let the dough ferment.

No added yeast anyway, lol The definition of 'sourdough bread' is simply the original culture or 'mother' is kept going and you inoculate subsequent batches of dough with a small piece of the mother. Not all sourdough bread is sour Btw, the sour part comes in when the culture gets old and starts producing a lot of lactic acid.
A good bread made with the sourdough method comes out mild and nutty, with none of the tangyness associated with what we generally know as sourdough. It also takes a long time to build up a culture to make the dough rise. Quick rising yeasts are a fairly modern invention, and in modern society's demand for faster everything, it was adopted in just about every american home, fucking up proper home bread making forever. Quick rising yeasts almost always promote over population of the culture and make bread taste yeasty. There's a pizza place in town where they leaven their dough with 'Biga', the yeast that collects on cabbage leaves.

I had injera at an Ethiopian restaurant once...as I recall it was a flat bread served on a large platter, piled with different stuff, a lot of beef cooked in different ways. It was a meal for three. Meant to be eaten with the hands, you just tear off a piece of the bread, scoop up some meat and get it to your mouth, lol there were no utensils made available. I really thought the flat bread was soda leavened though.

 

Simple Sourdough Baguette Recipe Sourdough French bread is totally vegan. And when I go down to 150# I will start eating it.

 

I wonder if by the same token you would avoid yogurt. Probably not, as yogurt is good for you and not truly alive. You don't kill the yogurt to eat it.

 

Moby is vegan. He has a vegan restaurant. Although I admire him, his music, and his ingenuity as an entrepreneur, I find that a vegan diet would be restrictive for me. I could do it though; I just haven't. Not yet anyway. I might if I thought chicks were going to notice. I think though it's something between me and animals, rather than me and chicks. Anywho... Thanks for your insight @drumminmama!

 

I'm greatly qualified to speak about veganism and the various mindsets that surround it. I grew up in a 50/50 home with a strictly vegan dad and a mom who did eat some meat. Perhaps that's the root of why today I describe myself as quasi - vegan in that 5 days a week I'm vegan and then partake of some meats or fish the remaining two days . I do not drink milk either although I do enjoy eggs.
Growing up I learned the best of both worlds and the truth of nutrition based thinking.

With all this being said I've discovered some disturbing trends among vegans as they take separate paths, for instance I know one person who says never eat pineapple and on her list of fruits she does eat only eating certain ones at certain times. Others say never eat bread at all . Never eat bread ? Hello ! Bread is an ancient food going back as far as known history takes us essentially and is good for you as long as it doesn't contain white flour. Had ancient forebears not had this basic staple none of us would be here at all , it was a mainstay.
Vegans have now divided into groups all with their own set of rules , do this don't do that, only in the morning , only in the evening etc. It's evolving into a mind boggling array of prohibitions and guidlines rather than a focus on healthy eating as it should be.

There really is a war on wheat it seems and now everyone is being diagnosed with Coeliacs Disease it's come from no where to being very common. I enjoy my stone ground whet bread although I don't eat more than a slice at a time and so did my vegan dad.

My approach is that meats should never comprise more than 20% of one's caloric intake and that the remaining time should be spent enjoying fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains and nuts.

There's only four things I recommend anyone never consuming , they are , white flour, sugar, high fructose corn syrup and denatured white rice.

My dad was in his 90's when he died if he were alive today he would laugh in amusement at what radical thinking has done to something that is after all so very simple !

I believe all food should taste good , should be enjoyable, should be nutrition focused and satisfying and that great food is here for us to enjoy sensibly everyday !

It's simple ! Enjoy !