How Good Are French Vegan Croissants?

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Only one percent of the French population is vegan. France is known for its cheese and people here love butter: No other nation consumes more butter worldwide. It's also the most important ingredient in the most French of all pastries: croissants. In Paris, we tested whether a vegan pastry chef could inspire her butter-crazy compatriots to make croissants without butter.
#France #Croissant #Vegan
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Report: Gönna Ketels
Camera: Maël Fuentes
Edit: Antje Lass
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  • @elizabethchan485
    @elizabethchan485 Жыл бұрын

    Bravo Mlle. Leconte, keep it up! Looking forward to visit your bakery someday! 😍👍

  • @i123456987654
    @i123456987654 Жыл бұрын

    wow, i can't wait to visit her bakery one day

  • @lucioh1575

    @lucioh1575

    10 ай бұрын

    Been there, really good.

  • @williamshanks8959

    @williamshanks8959

    5 ай бұрын

    I have visited that bakery. It's really good.

  • @brandonplays702

    @brandonplays702

    2 ай бұрын

    @@lucioh1575which part of France is it in?

  • @brandonplays702

    @brandonplays702

    2 ай бұрын

    @@williamshanks8959which part of France is it in?

  • @williamshanks8959

    @williamshanks8959

    2 ай бұрын

    @@brandonplays702 123 Voltaire boulevard 11th arrondissement in Paris France

  • @JacobA666
    @JacobA666 Жыл бұрын

    I bet all food can be veganised, so what are people waiting for?

  • @Kain_Mercer
    @Kain_Mercer Жыл бұрын

    Very interesting video. I would have liked to see the response from the taste testers once the blind was removed, though! What did the butter fans think, after realizing they preferred Vegan?

  • @DWFood

    @DWFood

    Жыл бұрын

    Haha, we imagine they were plunged into an existential crisis...!

  • @tobiatic6148
    @tobiatic6148 Жыл бұрын

    Nice idea. I think this is the croissant we should eat more in the future. It´s cheaper, healthier and vegan. The taste is on the same level as a croissant with butter.

  • @cv5369

    @cv5369

    Жыл бұрын

    It’ll never replace the butter one. Animal product consumption in Europe is not the same as in the states.

  • @DWFood

    @DWFood

    Жыл бұрын

    Absolutely - it seems people really enjoy the vegan pastries, too!

  • @harrypottershead8331

    @harrypottershead8331

    Жыл бұрын

    @@cv5369 it is still morally wrong.

  • @harukrentz435

    @harukrentz435

    7 ай бұрын

    Its using vegetable oil how can you say its healthier??

  • @harukrentz435

    @harukrentz435

    7 ай бұрын

    Its using vegetable oil how can you say its healthier??

  • @avr921
    @avr921 Жыл бұрын

    Good initiative. Something different 👍🏻

  • @mikadege5285
    @mikadege5285 Жыл бұрын

    Looks delicious

  • @DWFood

    @DWFood

    Жыл бұрын

    It was!

  • @thedangerousbeauty
    @thedangerousbeauty Жыл бұрын

    She could also use vegan butter too...😊

  • @luci4087
    @luci4087 Жыл бұрын

    those all look delicious.

  • @ecofriend93
    @ecofriend936 ай бұрын

    Found a reason to go back to Paris!

  • @brentlue1656
    @brentlue1656 Жыл бұрын

    Does anyone know the voice actor for the narration of this video? I swear I've heard him also voice for NHK.

  • @AnimationDunk
    @AnimationDunk11 ай бұрын

    Merci de donner de l'accessibilité au vegan à nos pâtisseries préférée, dans les autres pays les options sont nombreuses et accessible mais la France prend du temps à changer

  • @alexisgouet1437
    @alexisgouet1437 Жыл бұрын

    It's good too see, and everyone will comment about how we have vegan pastries in France but truth is I have never seen any in my town, which is quite a big town, and I didn't have a croissant since more than ten years. Hopefully it will spread.

  • @xXHarleyMaeMcAfeeXx
    @xXHarleyMaeMcAfeeXx Жыл бұрын

    Cool af

  • @tocatchasnark1471
    @tocatchasnark147110 ай бұрын

    I’ve made vegan croissants and they was miles more tasty than the shop bought ones .

  • @luci4087
    @luci4087 Жыл бұрын

    just curious but is heart disease prevalent in france?

  • @TinaVegan

    @TinaVegan

    Жыл бұрын

    they are on the same level as the rest of the western world. The "french paradox" is not real. But french people tend to have homemade and somewhat wholesome meals (instead of junk food). They don't snack much either.

  • @Sa-fd7ih
    @Sa-fd7ih Жыл бұрын

    Why not show the testers’ reaction after finding out they prefer vegan croissant?

  • @felipedilho
    @felipedilhoАй бұрын

    but margerine has milk in it, so it is not really vegan, right?

  • @kennethmaese4622

    @kennethmaese4622

    23 күн бұрын

    Vegan butter, since it's not dairy, is often referred to as margarine.

  • @felipedilho

    @felipedilho

    23 күн бұрын

    @@kennethmaese4622 But that is not margarine, it's just vegetable shortening then, for it to be margarine there must be some presence of dairy products.

  • @patrickd8770
    @patrickd8770 Жыл бұрын

    Margarine and vegetable oil in French foods just seems wrong. Glad people enjoy it though, having dietary restrictions in Paris seems challenging !

  • @DWFood

    @DWFood

    Жыл бұрын

    Good point!

  • @lucioh1575

    @lucioh1575

    10 ай бұрын

    Today I learned "not abusing animals'" is a dietary restriction.

  • @lucioh1575

    @lucioh1575

    10 ай бұрын

    @@DWFood Being vegan in Paris is really easy.

  • @berfunkle4588
    @berfunkle4588 Жыл бұрын

    I grew up eating margerine, but I stopped eating the stuff once I was introduced to butter in my late teens. In fact, I grew to hate the taste of margerine. I would try a vegan croissant, but if the true difference between the two was butter or margerine, I suspect I wouldn't like the vegan style.

  • @ManOfSteel1
    @ManOfSteel1 Жыл бұрын

    vegetable oil is cheap in nutrition

  • @anetaangelova3573
    @anetaangelova3573 Жыл бұрын

    I am a vegan but I will choose butter croissants because margarine is worse than butter.

  • @quentincharoy3996

    @quentincharoy3996

    Жыл бұрын

    So you are not vegan

  • @andybarr6751
    @andybarr6751 Жыл бұрын

    Butter - one ingredient that can be locally sourced. It's production plays an important role in the environment. Vegetable "oil" and soy "milk" - highly processed and full of chemical deodorizers and preservatives. Produced in unsustainable monocultures that destroy environments.

  • @luthienzirael6741

    @luthienzirael6741

    10 ай бұрын

    "important role in the environment" ?? you mean millions of cows releasing methane, eating tons of soy and drinking gallons of water every day, dumping their waste into rivers,lakes and seas because the animals are so many we don't know how to get rid of so much dung and destroying ecosystems? Of the habitable land on our planet, 50% is used for agriculture, and of that 50% land, 77% is used for livestock!... The soy you say we produce and destroy forests? 80% of global soybean crop is used to feed livestock, not us. So no matter how you look at it, animal agriculture is not sustainable and is actually causing huge enviromental issues. Not soy for vegans, not oils for vegans, but for the animals. 70 billion animals are reared for food every year... you can make the calculations yourself. How much does a cow eat? how much does it drink? how much a pig? 70 billion???... We are destroying ourselves.

  • @scerb100

    @scerb100

    6 ай бұрын

    Nope. 86% of global soy production is to FEED COWS. The rest is split between oil crops and human grade food. There’s no chemical “deodorizers” in soy milk. Vegetable oils are an umbrella term for most plant oils that aren’t olive or coconut. Coconut and palm do get refined to remove some flavors. That is the basis for many vegan butters (usually a blend). Difference between vegan butter and margarine is that margarine is (or used to be) hydrogenated. Vegan butter is not. Monoculture crops aren’t great, but food that most people eat are monocultures and again the majority of crops grown are to FEED ANIMALS. Also animals are monoculturally farmed too.

  • @deltropico7
    @deltropico7 Жыл бұрын

    No.

  • @tobiatic6148

    @tobiatic6148

    Жыл бұрын

    But why?

  • @AP-xf1bz

    @AP-xf1bz

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tobiatic6148 But why question another's opinion. A no is a no. Simple as that.

  • @DWFood

    @DWFood

    Жыл бұрын

    Would you try one?

  • @alphacause
    @alphacause Жыл бұрын

    While I appreciate the creativity of this vegan chef, it is completely unnecessary given that much of what drives the push towards veganism are erroneous views about health, misguided ideas about the environmental impact of animal agriculture, and unsound reasoning regarding the ethics of animal husbandry .

  • @DylanLenn

    @DylanLenn

    Жыл бұрын

    I think you're misguided

  • @alphacause

    @alphacause

    Жыл бұрын

    I probably think the same about you.

  • @DylanLenn

    @DylanLenn

    Жыл бұрын

    @@alphacause If you think it's okay to breed and kill and exploit animals for meat, dairy, eggs. But not okay to do the exact same thing to a group of humans. Then name what is true of the animals which if true of the humans would justify breeding/killing/exploiting the humans in the same way you say it's okay to do to animals. If you cannot name trait(s) which meet that criteria then to hold those 2 positions is logically inconsistent. That's the argument for veganism.

  • @alphacause

    @alphacause

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@DylanLenn 1. In addressing your challenge directly, animals have inferior cognition to that of human beings. They cannot produce mathematics, poetry, prose, music, architecture, or art. They are bereft of any substantial inventiveness and cannot deliberate morality or ethics. So while they are living beings, their value is limited to their physicality. So humans and animals differ so markedly that they don't deserve the same moral consideration. If one human being was as interchangeable in their contributions to this world as another human being, in the same way one farm hen is to another, or one domesticated pig is to another, then human life would be expendable. 2. Speaking of inconsistency, your logic shows the moral inconsistency in your line of reasoning. Veganism is not spared from the very moral conundrum you presented to me. If we posit that animals and humans have equal moral value, then ALL agriculture must stop, because ALL forms of agriculture kill animals. Your vegan diet is dependent on monocrop agriculture, which displaces billions of native species of animals. The pesticides and herbicides, that make the growing of crops en masse possible, kill many of the animals that would normally eat your precious quinoa, rice, kale or whatever plant based food you subsist on. The only difference is that the rats, mice, rabbits, moles, worms, insects and birds that your diet kills - which number in the billions - don't happen to be as cute or cuddly as the animals you claim to love, like the pig or the cow. In order to eat your "virtuous diet", you too make value judgments on which lives are deemed worthy and which lives are expendable.

  • @DylanLenn

    @DylanLenn

    Жыл бұрын

    @@alphacause 1. So if those humans had the intelligence of cows/chickens/pigs would it be okay to kill and eat them in the same context in which you think it's okay to kill and eat cows/chickens/pigs? If not then you just named arbitrary differences, not differences which meet the criteria. Re read what I said. 2. Nobody's claiming you can live without causing any amount of suffering or deaths by being vegan. There's a difference between extrinsic and intrinsic harm. Car accidents kill hundreds of thousands of people every year, yet we accept these accidental deaths and continue driving because it's a practical necessity. Same as with agriculture. So again if you cannot name what is true of animals which if true of humans would justify killing and eating humans, then you cannot claim it's okay to kill and eat animals but not humans because that would be a contradiction. It's really simple stuff.

  • @letang6772
    @letang67723 ай бұрын

    Yuck

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