Food Substitutes To Try This Thanksgiving | SciShow Compilation

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1. In my experience, vanillin works fine in foods where there are lots of other flavours as well, like chocolate flavoured items, but if the main flavour of the food is meant to be vanilla, I can REALLY taste the difference between the only flavour component being vanillin vs all the other subtle compounds from the vanilla bean also being present. It might make sense to figure out how to manufacture some of the other chemicals than the main one that contribute the more subtle effects to vanilla & other flavourings — I have no objection to artificial flavours in principle, but so many of them just don't taste as good as the natural ones because of the lack of those subtle compounds!

   I've tried many times to use applesauce as a substitute for eggs or fat, but it just doesn't cut it. The resultant baked goods are certainly edible, but they don't have as satisfying a texture. I always wonder if people who recommend this substitution maybe don't do a lot of baking themselves…

2. Why didn't you talk about ammonia chloride? It's been used as a salt substitute for hundreds of years, and it's flavor is almost as good.

3. Is there a way to know if you’re lacking in certain micronutrients? My diet isn’t very consistent and I often feel like I’m deficient in something but I’m not sure what

4. As a vegan I try to always add something that has calcium, magnesium, extra proteins, I feel good for me and the rest of animals

5. other egg substitutes: 1 tbsp flaxmeal in 3 Tbsp warm water, 1 TBSP chia seeds in 3 TBsp warm water, aquafava (the water from boiling or canning garbanzos/chickpeas

6. THANK YOU for doing this.
   As someone who firmly believes that a great way to show love is to feed people things that do not make them sick, who gets sick when eating gluten, soy, and dairy, and who is working toward a vegan diet again (eggs made their way back into my diet due to anemia), I really appreciate showing people how easily some things are substituted.

   ALSO: another problem with the natural vs. artificial flavors binary is that you don't know which ones… I am not the only person in my family who has gastrointestinal reactions to aspartame, and small amounts of aspartame can legally be lumped in with other ingredients as "artificial flavors"

   And "natural colors" can sometimes be carmel coloring from processed grains, some of which have the gluten to which some of us react.

7. The idea that losing 5 kgs and gaining it back could be a problem seems strange to me. It's such a small amount. I gain and lose 5lbs over weekend without trying.

8. Flagging this video as needing (not just auto-generated) subtitles. Please help us hard of hearing and deaf folks access your content!! 🥰🤟🏻

9. Bioartificial flavors!

10. Musy try some of these next Thanksgiving here in Australia

11. If they know that the one specific thing doesn't quite make up the whole flavor of something, why don't they try to also make the other aspects of that flavor for their artificial flavoring?

12. Whether its natural or artificial, when we taste sweet, our bodies produce insulin in preparation for a blood sugar boost. High insulin levels, or insulinemia, still causes weight gain and diabetes, as well as fatty liver disease, and even more so when that insulin has nothing to apply itself to. That's where artificial sweeteners fail

13. hanks looking so much better. im glad to see he got better from whatever ailed him

14. I knew someone who was allergic to artificial vanilla. She could have real vanilla extract though. If they are the same molecularly, how could she only be allergic to the artificial?

15. Beau is spot-on that reading is about the ideas more than the medium.

16. To be fair to NaCl, there are chemicals that make less of it seem more, including msg, lemon juice, and vinegar to start

17. I can definitely tell the difference between real and artificial vanilla and coconut.

18. There is to much false information in this video. Waaaaay to much.

19. I suddenly feel very good for not dieting in any way and doing little sports. 😂

20. I for one would be perfectly happy to eat lentil pate at the big family gathering.

    Traditions are nice, but they should never be a rigid prison. Take what you can use from them, be flexible, and enjoy being with people you love.

    You can always make those special dishes a different day when you're on your own.

21. We should eat according to our lifestyle. Paleo diet was good when we were nomads hunters and agriculture was not started. But now our lifestyle is more concentrated on doing sedantry work which requires different nutrients. Vegan is great for some but alas this diet is incompatible in places where vegetation is sparce like desert or arid areas. Also PPL doing strenuous activity require more protein which vegan diet is insufficient. I would like to see an episode on why we love junk food.

22. I wish the FDA would be more transparent about gluten free labels on foods. I hate getting glutened and have a celiac flare. 🙃

23. @14:45; As a point of question – does that include the lactose in the cow's milk being identical? Or is it essentially "Lab-grown lactose-free cow's milk"?

    As someone who's both lactose intolerant and slightly allergic to milk, I'd be curious if it's known to trip those same issues.

24. Kinda like organic vs non orgainc foods. Certification where I live isn't standardised, so all that naturally grown food sold here and shipped overseas, could have just as many pesticides and other chemical treatments (sometimes worse ones) than non organic produce. Which doesn't even factor in whether a commercal grower hasn't just planted their organic crops right next to their normal crops, or whether the company rubber stamping their cert allows for things like G.M.O.'s or a certain percent of standard pesticide usage.

25. Have you heard that
    
    Trump's new favorite food is hummus:
    
    he heard it was made of Russian chick pea.

26. Wouldn’t food substitutes mean like dietary pills or some sort of food iv drip?

27. Note to self, stay away from castoreum…

28. What if the flavor comes from a Fungus?

29. Haaaaaaaaank!

    It's HANK! WEEEEEEEEEEEE

30. Fun and informative video!

31. ur are the best ever! i love you so much 🤍 u make my life better

32. So, artificial sweetners always taste bitter to me. am i weird? like aspartame has a very distinct bitter after taste, splenda is harder to detect like this, but overuse definitely can be told. etc. am i weird?

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34. Yeah nah I'll stick to real food, thanks.

35. Pumpkin puree, or any squash puree, can also be used as a 1:1 substitute for oil in some baking recipes. We got a bumper crop of butternut squash this year, and I've been trying to figure out ways to use it up.

36. Pretty un American of you but I suspect that was the point. Sorry but no. Turkey all the way. And then turkey leftovers and then I’ll go get another one for half off. Have fun eating your fish and tofo ya snowflakes lol

37. Never invite vegans to a Thanksgiving day feast. And they must come, let them bring their own vegan dishes.

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41. 0:43: 🍽️ Cooking Thanksgiving dinner can be challenging when dealing with dietary restrictions, but there are many food substitutes available.
    3:43: 💰 Artificial vanilla is chemically identical to natural vanilla and much cheaper, making it a cost-effective option.
    7:25: 😕 Processed foods with artificial flavorings have a bad reputation for being unhealthy, but the blame is misplaced as natural flavorings are used for the same purpose.
    10:57: 🥐 The fats in pastry dough help it stay tender and flaky, and when bakers replace fats with applesauce, they achieve a similar result by using pectin to form a jelly-like mesh.
    15:09: 🧪 Lab-grown meat, such as transgenic egg whites, is being produced by companies using stem cells from animals.
    18:32: 🧂 Replacing chloride in salt substitutes is challenging due to the selectivity of the epithelial sodium channel for sodium ions.
    21:54: 🧠 Using artificial sweeteners instead of sugar may not result in weight loss, as the confusion caused by the lack of calories in sweetness could lead to overeating.
    25:22: 🍬 High-intensity sweeteners are not a magic bullet for improving health, so it's important to limit both sugar and sweeteners in the diet.
    28:33: ! Weight fluctuation and extreme endurance exercise can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and other health issues.
    Recapped using TammyAI

42. Ok feed the artificial compounds to your own children and let me stay with the natural version

43. How can you replace oil with applesauce? Fry your chips in applesauce?

44. Talking to a Nigerian friend, kinda discovered the whole world has some kind of yam festival. So, since Thanksgiving is problematic, we're celebrating Yam Fest.

45. As nileblue found out with his lab grade pure cookie it's all contaminates that make it taste good

46. Fly amanita wont kill you. Most likely. Other amanitas can but amanita muscaria, pantherina, regalis(maybe more) are all good and psychoactive.

47. ah yes I will be serving bug

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