Hello everyone,

we are a group of students from Germany, and we tried out different milk alternatives to live more environmentally friendly.

For example, made vegan cheese, baked a vegan cake, and made vegan pudding.

Furthermore, we compared the nutritional values, the impact on the environment, and the prices of different milk alternatives and cow milk.

Best regards!

Judith, Felicitas, and Linda

Vegan shopping tour

After a little search in the supermarket, we found great variety of vegan milk alternatives. We decided to buy all different milk alternatives by one brand “alpro” for better comparison.

Self-made vegan mozzarella cheese

First, we tried to make vegan mozzarella cheese with cashews ourselves. For those who are interested here is the recipe and a link to a video which explains it:
recipe by the German supermarket chain EDEKA: https://pin.it/3fVWyup
ingredients:
100 g cashews
200 g soy-yogurt
5 tsp salt
5 tsp yeast flakes
2 tbsp tapioca (starch)
100 ml soy-drink, unsweetened
8 g Agar-Agar (vegan galantine)

and here are some pictures of the process and the result:

The result did unfortunately not taste like mozzarella at all, and the consistency was also not typical for the cheese. It tasted more like cashews. But at least it looked a bit like mozzarella and we had fun trying this vegan recipe, although we can’t recommend it😉

Vegan cheese

After we failed in making vegan cheese ourselves, we decided to try a vegan cheese, we found at the supermarket and were positively surprised by the flavor, which tasted exactly like normal cheese. The texture was also remarkably similar to normal cheese. But it was more expansive than normal cheese.

Vegan lemon cake

Then we tried to bake a vegan cake with soy milk instead of cow milk, which turned out way better than our experiment with the vegan mozzarella cheese and we can only recommend the recipe for everyone, who wants to bake a delicious vegan lemon cake.

recipe:
300 g flour
250 ml soy milk
200 g sugar
125 ml oil
1 pk baking powder
1 pk vanilla sugar
juice of 1 lemon
bake it in the oven by 180 degrees Celsius, recirculating air, for 60 minutes in a baking tin
Enjoy your vegan cake! 😊

Different milk alternatives

For our project we tasted almond milk, soy milk, and oat milk. We tried to drink them pure and with cacao (in general we thought that they tasted better with cacao 😉, but it did not influence the characteristics of the different milk alternatives). Furthermore, we made pudding out of all of them (and we used the leftovers to make porridge, which worked very well).

Impact on the environment:

source : https://blog.datawrapper.de/cow-milk-and-vegan-milk-alternatives/

Nutritional values:

Price: