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Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 22:35:18 UTC Bernie

Mediterranean platter, yum! 😋
#vegetarian #food, everything also #vegan except for the feta cheese, oops!

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- Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 12-Nov-2022 00:47:14 UTC Bernie
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  - AGirlKeepsSecrets
  @agirlkeepssecrets Yes, there's no good plant-based protein that coagulates the same way of casein.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casein
  #food #vegan #nutrition
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    Casein ( KAY-see-n, from Latin caseus "cheese") is a family of related phosphoproteins (αS1, aS2, β, κ) that are commonly found in mammalian milk, comprising about 80% of the proteins in cow's milk and between 20% and 60% of the proteins in human milk. Sheep and buffalo milk have a higher casein content than other types of milk with human milk having a particularly low casein content.Casein has a wide variety of uses, from being a major component of cheese, to use as a food additive. The most common form of casein is sodium caseinate. In milk, casein undergoes phase separation to form colloidal casein micelles, a type of secreted biomolecular condensate. As a food source, casein supplies amino acids, carbohydrates, and two essential elements, calcium and phosphorus. Composition Casein contains a high number of proline amino acids which hinder the formation of common secondary structural motifs of proteins. There are also no disulfide bridges. As a result, it has relatively little tertiary structure. It is relatively hydrophobic...
- AGirlKeepsSecrets (agirlkeepssecrets@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Nov-2022 00:47:16 UTC AGirlKeepsSecrets
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  @codewiz I have the hardest time replacing cheese. the Vegan cheeses just aren't the same most of the time.
  
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- Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 12-Nov-2022 00:53:37 UTC Bernie
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  Hopefully one day we'll make casein or something equivalent with genetically modified bacteria.
  If animals can synthesize a molecule from plants, so can we. We are already commonly producing the enzyme that coagulates casein with an industrial process, without killing calves:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chymosin
  @agirlkeepssecrets
  #vegan #nutrition #food
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- Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 14:57:39 UTC Bernie
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  - mike
  @mike Sorry, that was insensitive. I ordered this Mediterranean platter thinking it would actually be vegan.
  I just posted a review asking the cafe to add an explicit option on the menu to replace the feta with vegan cheese.
  Let's see how it goes...
  
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- mike (mike@micro.mkp.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 14:57:40 UTC mike
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  @codewiz Tags a photo of animal abuse with #vegan. Dude. Not okay. I don’t tell you about the hookers I strangle, do I?? I certainly don’t tag it, “#notstrangledhookers” and post it to your feed.
  
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