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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Bravo Mlle. Leconte, keep it up! Looking forward to visit your bakery someday! 😍👍
wow, i can't wait to visit her bakery one day
@lucioh1575
10 ай бұрын
Been there, really good.
@williamshanks8959
5 ай бұрын
I have visited that bakery. It's really good.
@brandonplays702
2 ай бұрын
@@lucioh1575which part of France is it in?
@brandonplays702
2 ай бұрын
@@williamshanks8959which part of France is it in?
@williamshanks8959
2 ай бұрын
@@brandonplays702 123 Voltaire boulevard 11th arrondissement in Paris France
I bet all food can be veganised, so what are people waiting for?
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
Жыл бұрын
Haha, we imagine they were plunged into an existential crisis...!
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
Жыл бұрын
It’ll never replace the butter one. Animal product consumption in Europe is not the same as in the states.
@DWFood
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely - it seems people really enjoy the vegan pastries, too!
@harrypottershead8331
Жыл бұрын
@@cv5369 it is still morally wrong.
@harukrentz435
7 ай бұрын
Its using vegetable oil how can you say its healthier??
@harukrentz435
7 ай бұрын
Its using vegetable oil how can you say its healthier??
Good initiative. Something different 👍🏻
Looks delicious
@DWFood
Жыл бұрын
It was!
She could also use vegan butter too...😊
those all look delicious.
Found a reason to go back to Paris!
Does anyone know the voice actor for the narration of this video? I swear I've heard him also voice for NHK.
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
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.
Cool af
I’ve made vegan croissants and they was miles more tasty than the shop bought ones .
just curious but is heart disease prevalent in france?
@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.
Why not show the testers’ reaction after finding out they prefer vegan croissant?
but margerine has milk in it, so it is not really vegan, right?
@kennethmaese4622
23 күн бұрын
Vegan butter, since it's not dairy, is often referred to as margarine.
@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.
Margarine and vegetable oil in French foods just seems wrong. Glad people enjoy it though, having dietary restrictions in Paris seems challenging !
@DWFood
Жыл бұрын
Good point!
@lucioh1575
10 ай бұрын
Today I learned "not abusing animals'" is a dietary restriction.
@lucioh1575
10 ай бұрын
@@DWFood Being vegan in Paris is really easy.
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.
vegetable oil is cheap in nutrition
I am a vegan but I will choose butter croissants because margarine is worse than butter.
@quentincharoy3996
Жыл бұрын
So you are not vegan
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
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
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.
No.
@tobiatic6148
Жыл бұрын
But why?
@AP-xf1bz
Жыл бұрын
@@tobiatic6148 But why question another's opinion. A no is a no. Simple as that.
@DWFood
Жыл бұрын
Would you try one?
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
Жыл бұрын
I think you're misguided
@alphacause
Жыл бұрын
I probably think the same about you.
@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
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
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.
Yuck