During Lent, vegans are free. In stores, as never before, there are a lot of products marked “lean”, “for fasting”.
It is understood that these dishes must be absolutely "clean" from animal components. And, thus, to enter the line of ethical (vegan) products.
However, in practice, things are not so rosy. Let me tell you about a similar moment.
I bought two lean Mikoyan products - both are in the photo.
Today I will share my personal opinion about sausage.
1. What is it?
Firstly, friends, this is not sausage - and, so to speak, in the generally accepted sense, and in fact.
The real designation of the product, that is, what it is (we read the information on the packaging) - Cream with vegetable oils. He is cream. Remember?
And the cream behaves under certain conditions like a cream, not like a sausage. More on this feature later.
2. There are bugs
Secondly, and this is, in fact, the main thing - the product cannot be called vegan.
As, most likely, and lean.
The composition contains a component that is by no means of plant origin - carmine. It is indicated at the very end of the description of the composition, and, fortunately (otherwise I would not be writing this text now), when I bought it, I did not finish reading this entire paragraph - I trusted, naive, the manufacturer, pecked at “fasting”.
Carmine- a dye that gives products (as well as fabrics, some medicines, perfumes, etc.) a pretty red color. Carmine is produced from cochineal- female insects of the cactus false shield. At a certain period of the year, insects are collected, dried, crushed - the result is a red powder. Carmine is registered as a food additive E120. You can read more about carmine, for example, on Wikipedia.
I am not aware of all the subtleties that Lenten food should correspond to. However, I doubt very much that an adequate person living in the normal conditions of the present time, even on a non-fasting day, will voluntarily desire to dig up the remains of beetles.
And a reasonable question to the manufacturer.
If the cost of carmine is “more expensive than other dyes” - why the hell is not native beetroot used in the production of a lean product - completely vegetable and cheap? Coloring just “with a bang” in a chic color anything. Yes, and it’s more aesthetic - it’s not frayed beetles, but, comrades from “Mikoyan”?
3. Once again about the composition
It is wide, varied and in some places mysterious. Without Wikipedia, most of the meanings are incomprehensible to a mere mortal. Yes, monosodium glutamate is honestly listed here - but it is not as scary as a pig in a poke. Personally, for example, I was intrigued by the fact that on different lines in the description of the composition a certain “flavor” is indicated, as well as certain “flavors”. What kind of flavors are they, what are they made of (vegetable? Or again a dirty trick of non-fasting origin?), for what reason they are settled in different lines - this manufacturer is modestly silent. This moment is completely incomprehensible to me, as a buyer, and therefore does not inspire confidence.
4. Taste and attractiveness
It is known that in the vast majority of cases, taste preferences depend on the disposition of the spirit of the taster, and his character. However, facts are facts. Fortunately, I have previously tried vegan sausage products from the Russian manufacturer Malik, popular among vegetarians and vegans (with a crossed-out cow on the packages). To which, frankly, the lean sausage “Mikoyan” does not quite fall short in many respects - and, as it turned out, people I know and unfamiliar agree with me.
If wheat sausages “Maliki” are already sausages, so sausages, elastic, dense, with a frank “sausage” meat-puff texture, then the lean product “Mikoyan”, I repeat - cream. By texture, this is a pate-like substance - yes, it can be cut with a knife, it is slightly denser than a pate. However, it is more pliable than that sausage should be.
On the palate - an obsessive tonality of some swollen, not completely dissolved powder. There is bitterness in the aftertaste. There are pieces of mushrooms inside, and there are many of them - but in general perception their role is zero. By the way, a piece of mushroom picked out of a sausage and eaten separately tastes like marinated champignon.
5. Like cream in a pan
Who loves shorter - after the discovery of carmine, the question would have been closed. But I wanted at least some slightest satisfaction. One way or another, a crazy idea arose to fry this sausage - maybe a golden crust can save the day, raise the taste? The second thought immediately appeared: “How to fry something? It's CREAM!". However, my hands always work faster than my head - the sausage is already chopped, thrown into a pan with heated vegetable oil ...
So what? And then. Instead of the gradual appearance of a fried crust, a different kind of transformation appeared to me. No matter how hard I tried to gently turn over the pieces of sausage with a spatula, they suddenly began to lose their sharp corners, melt like a candle, fall apart tenderly and smear on the bottom of the pan. I - rather scrape with a spatula ... "It's CREAM!" - triumphantly flashed through my head ...
In the photo - fried lean Mikoyan sausage, which I mixed with stewed cabbage.
Where there is a pink jelly - this is the sausage. The tasting test of this mixture was steadfastly conducted by my husband. His opinion: “With cabbage - it’s even more or less somehow possible ... But I can’t say that it is delicious.”
A moment of honesty:
Husband's first reaction was
“Yes, well, take her to the bath! Bitter! Some bullshit!”
This is something that you can, so to speak, really feel, bite on the tooth, see with your own eyes.
Let me point out a couple more points that have a place to be.
6. Opinion of cats
I was surprised by the difference in the reaction of my cats. The cats, being full to the top, arranged an incessant three-voiced yell, as soon as I pulled “Malika” out of the refrigerator. Eyes bulging, noses making rhythmic circles in the air. At the same time, each tail made desperate attempts to fly up to the table where the sausage was being cut - yes, I constantly had to share vegan yummy with the cats.
Lenten sausage "Mikoyan" was also smelled by cats, but in the usual way - like any other product that is taken out of the refrigerator. There are no screams, flights too. They approached the table - they say, what do you have there? She gave a sample a piece - lazily squeezing, they ate it. I had to throw away the second pieces - the cats began to drive them on the floor with their paws. Hey, cats, what are you, it's sausage!
7. Lean - from meat machines
An important ethical point that my subscriber reminded me of a_alenya in Instagram :
Conclusions from all of the above:
1) a worthy idea - a sought-after lean / ethical analogue of an animal product.
And the performance is terribly lame. Especially against the background of long-standing successful competitors.
2) this product is definitely non-vegan, because it contains carmine.
3) lean sausage or not - depends on: a) in the rules of fasting whether to consume insects, b) what is the origin of the “flavoring” and “flavorings” in the composition.
4) I will definitely not buy this Mikoyan sausage for my family anymore.
Olga Grigoryan, Candidate of Medical Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Clinic for Clinical Nutrition of the Research Institute of Nutrition of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, expert of the National Association of Dietitians and Nutritionists:“As a rule, excluding meat, eggs and dairy products, fasting people switch to carbohydrates - pasta, potatoes and cereals. In fact, it turns out a carbohydrate diet, which is not useful for anyone to follow for such a long period. It is likely that you will not lose weight, but even gain a few extra pounds. Many people forget or simply do not know that the diet should be balanced - you need the right ratio of proteins, fats and carbohydrates. Therefore, if you decide to fast, I advise you to correctly compose your diet with the help of a nutritionist. And do not forget that the main meaning of fasting is religious, this is a time of spiritual cleansing, and not a reason to lose extra pounds.
Lean products - myths and reality
Fresh vegetables and fruits
Vitamins, fiber, low calories - it seems that fresh fruits and vegetables are ideal for both diet and fasting. But, unfortunately, in the spring, greenhouse vegetables that are sold in stores often contain an increased amount of nitrates. And you, hoping to unload your body, poison it. As for fruits, do not forget that these are, first of all, easily digestible carbohydrates - sugars, which can add extra pounds to you.
Bread instead of bread
Bread rolls are really useful: they are rich in vitamins, microelements and dietary fiber. They are in high demand among those who fast. And now attention! Ordinary bread is also a lean product: flour, water, yeast, sugar and salt, sometimes vegetable oil is also included in the composition. There are no eggs and butter in ordinary bread.
Andrey Mosov, head of the expert direction of NP "Roskontrol", hygienist: “If we compare the composition of lean cookies and regular cookies, we will see that they differ little. Today, almost none of the manufacturers of confectionery products uses butter in recipes: it is expensive and impractical - the product will be stored less than a product with vegetable fat. But in lean cookies there is no egg powder, which is sometimes found in recipes for "regular" cookies. As for lean cakes, egg products are also “removed” from them, but very often both in regular and lenten cakes and pastries, the cream is based on the same vegetable cream and confectionery fats, which can be a source of harmful trans-fatty acid isomers " .
Ekaterina Burlyaeva, dietitian, head of the Healthy and Sports Nutrition clinical and diagnostic group of the Federal Research Center for Nutrition and Biotechnology, told AiF.ru about the difference between traditional products and their "lean" versions.
Lean sausage, pates and other products in which the meat component is replaced by a vegetable one.
Protein. Animal protein in such products is replaced by vegetable protein. As a source of the latter, cereals (wheat or corn) or legumes (peas or soybeans) are usually used. You need to know that a truly lean sausage should not contain components such as gelatin, milk protein and carmine dye (E 120), because they are of animal origin. Of course, they are safe, and there will be no harm from them, but for people who adhere to certain dietary traditions, this should be taken into account when choosing products.
Fats. Palm and coconut oils are often used as vegetable fats. And here lies a tricky trap for consumers. Manufacturers of such lean sausages and frankfurters usually play on the fact that the meat product raises cholesterol, while the lean vegetable product does not. This is not entirely true. For example, coconut oil is 90% or more saturated fatty acids. Those that are in meat and the same butter, and which really increase cholesterol. But even in fatty butter, saturated fatty acids are not more than 70%. That is, the risk of high cholesterol when eating plant foods with coconut oil is even higher than from foods of animal origin. Lenten products contain flavors that are identical to natural, giving the taste and smell of chicken or pork. But such flavors are also used in the preparation of ordinary sausages.
In terms of proteins and fats, the composition of vegetable and meat sausages can vary greatly. If the sausage is predominantly made from legumes, then, most likely, the percentage of protein content in it will be higher. If the composition of the product is a fat cream, then only the name and form of the package remains from the sausage, and not the protein product. Basically there are vegetable fat components and various thickeners to keep the shape. When heated, such sausage quickly melts and loses its shape. Of course, it is the least useful of all, although lean.
Calorie content. Meat products are very different in calorie content depending on which sausage: boiled or smoked. The spread is from 300 to 600 kcal (more in smoked). In the vegetable version, calorie content is possible in the region of 200 kcal. Nevertheless, such a product still cannot be called low-calorie. Therefore, it is wrong to recommend a person to lose weight by eating lean sausage.
Lean mayonnaise.
The difference from the usual is that there are no eggs in the composition. But there are additives that give density. The basis of both lean and regular mayonnaise is vegetable oils.
Confectionery, pastries, sweets
Lenten cookies, other pastries and bread always existed in the diet of people. There are few differences in the composition of fats from ordinary products, in particular, cookies. Unless there are eggs. Mostly vegetable oils are now used in such products, because they are cheaper. And often it is coconut oil, which raises cholesterol levels. And the calorie content of lean confectionery is the same as that of the usual ones.
Marmalade and jelly always lean if not gelatin is used, but agar-agar. But for those who are concerned about overweight, you need to consider that the calorie content of 100 g of marmalade is 300 kcal. For comparison: in a 100-gram serving of chicken breast, there are only about 100 kcal. In the preparation of low-calorie confectionery, fatty products are used, which are limitedly absorbed in the intestines and do not significantly increase calorie content.
4 Reasons You Shouldn't Completely Replace Regular Foods With Lean Foods
1. For those who want to lose weight, it is hardly worth building your diet on the basis of only lean foods. They are still high in calories.
2. Completely replacing animal protein with vegetable protein is also not recommended in a healthy diet. Animal foods contain essential amino acids that are not found in plant foods. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends not limiting the diet to one type of food: only plant foods or only animals. The human diet must be sufficiently balanced, it must contain all the necessary amino acids, vitamins and trace elements. Moreover, on the nutrition of children, the position of the WHO is unambiguous: products of animal origin cannot be excluded from children's food.
3. It must be remembered that wheat or soy protein can cause an allergic reaction.
4. If a person consumes such lean sausages, cookies and cakes during fasting, then this is also not entirely correct. Fasting implies abstention from the same cakes and pastries in any form, self-education. Simply replacing one pleasure with another is not quite right.
Delicious lean foods are expensive, and a modern urban person cannot survive on potatoes and pasta alone, so it’s more honest not to strive for the delights of lean cuisine during Lent, but to humbly eat cheap sausages ... Is such a point of view justified?
Unfortunately, during the days of Great Lent, we do not devote so much time and energy to what is needed - works of mercy, church services, intense prayers, for us - ordinary people burdened with children and irregular work, fasting turns out to be rather a time of food restriction.
And here two extreme positions collide with each other. On the one hand, there are those who do not eat anything for several days - from Monday to Friday, “dry eating once in the evening”, they do not even eat sunflower oil, except for Saturday and Sunday (meals - no more than two). And those who call not to make a cult out of lean food, and to reduce food restrictions to a minimum.
I will not speak about the first category of those who fast. These people are probably ascetics, and their measure will not suit most of us. Let's talk about those who fast simply, refusing meat and dairy products. It would seem that fasting should not be a problem now - fresh fruits and vegetables, seafood and all kinds of soy milk substitutes.
But ordinary people cannot afford the daily meatless meals of mussels, crayfish necks and lobsters. Our food for this time is pasta, potatoes, bread, rolls and other carbohydrates. The result is obvious: extra pounds, heaviness instead of the necessary lightness. It turns out that in fasting there is an even greater division of church people into those who have and those who do not. Light salads with arugula and avocado and fresh fruit for some, pasta with ketchup for others. Where is the justice?
It seems to me that there are two problems that are connected in one way or another with these food reflections. Firstly, we live in an era of such abundance that, from an overabundance of everything, we are somewhat "blowing the roof." It would seem that when we need to be glad that we can buy (albeit infrequently and a little, but still sometimes we can) some products that our parents did not even think about, we are upset that someone buys them more often.
Secondly, almost none of us have family, long-term and, especially, centuries-old traditions of fasting. Few of us have been preparing for Lent since the summer, few pickle mushrooms and make jams, make sauerkraut, soak apples and pickle cucumbers. But it is affordable, inexpensive and may well brighten up the lean table and replace exotic snacks with pineapples.
When people tell me that fasting is difficult and impossible, I remember my childhood. By the time of fasting, mother, who received orders as a large family, accumulated canned vegetables, individual cans of summer preparations were also waiting in the spring, with the onset of Holy Forty Days.
Yes, we ate rice and buckwheat, as well as a large number of carrot, cabbage and beetroot salads. Mom made pies and cooked compotes. And then mixtures of frozen vegetables and berries appeared in Moscow. I remember the then joy of Orthodox housewives - you can stew stews, and cook soups, and cook vegetable pilaf.
At the end of March, the first cucumbers appeared on the shelves of grocery stores - long, but wonderfully smelling of something fresh, new. Mom fried black bread in lean (that still smelling) oil, salted it and put cucumber circles on top. It sounds ridiculous, of course, with our modern gastronomic habits, but it was very, very tasty.
It's strange, but I completely associate certain dishes with fasting time. And not because they are tasteless, it just happened that way. My mother always cooked very well, and raised children, and went to work, by the way. And talking about how busy people are now versus what it was 20-30 years ago is debatable to say the least. Yes, they used to leave work then, but at the same time, they stood in lines, washed by hand and washed dishes not just in the sink, and not in the dishwasher, but with laundry soap. But this did not prevent those who then, in the 1970s and early 1980s, came to the temple from fasting, limiting themselves to meat and milk, and not talking about the Mediterranean roots of fasting, and therefore its unsuitability for us, about those added to the body kilograms.
During the years of my childhood and youth, which I remembered today, my parents read to us the description of the post by Ivan Shmelev. Then the description seemed to me - a holiday. Growing up, I learned about popular prints, fictional plots, etc., but still the experience of this period, albeit childish and naive, remained. No wonder the hero of Shmelev, whose gases we see these pictures from the world of the lost, the lost, is a little boy.
Now, personally, larks from dough on the day of memory of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste are not so important to me. I will say more - I can do without Easter cake. But I understand that this is all very important for children. Our annual circle includes certain foods too. And then, when we cannot boast of anything else, we want at least such traditions to be in our lives. Certain family patterns are made up of little things, and small food restrictions are unlikely to seriously undermine our health and/or budget.
We are very used to comfort. Our whole life is aimed at achieving it - spacious housing, beautiful clothes, delicious food, positive emotions, regular rest, etc. But fasting is not just a certain diet or vegetarianism out of pity for animals, it is an inconvenience that we consciously endure, trying not to rush at our neighbors too much.
My confessor told me more than once that Orthodoxy is “dying every day.” I am a person who thinks literally and rather primitively, and I know for sure that I won’t be able to “die”, clutching a sausage in my hand.
Conversation with m.ch. about the cut out sockets in a rented apartment, the owner himself repairs them, who was asked not to be shy during the repair and eat any sausage from the refrigerator (there are always 3 varieties):
me: the owner said that all day with an electrician they were looking for a reason, but they did not find anything. Tomorrow they will come looking for more. He said that he needed to bring his wife, she remembers exactly where the switchboard is. the box in the wall is walled up. But I think he just liked our sausage, he wants more.
m.h.: i.e. Now the wife will also eat sausage?
me: yes, they take her to try and say "look what kind of sausage you need to buy in the house, you fool"!
fast:
If you are in space without a suit, can the released gases make you move?
Yes, gastro-intestinal gases can push you forward, as there is virtually no drag force (neither friction nor gravity) to affect the strength of these gases.
comment:
1: oo! and if you fart and burp, you can spin!!
It's better not to get closer than a meter to my cat when she eats sausage, because she hisses, growls and can #kick her leg. Although, when she eats fish, meat or cat food, then everything is fine :) you can even stroke it, she doesn’t mind. I didn’t understand why she behaved like that until I saw how in the country with the same frenzy with which she eats sausage, she eats a mouse.
A friend, pretty drunk, stands in the kitchen, cuts sausage and says:
- If I were an adequate and sober-minded person, I would never trust myself with a knife in such a state. But it didn’t grow together, it didn’t grow together ...
xxx: I'm hungry, what can I cook?
yyy: scrambled eggs
yyy: look for an egg first
yyy: preferably chicken
xxx: nothing simpler?)
yyy: eat, come up to the windowsill, tear off the leaf from the plant and eat, you can add salt
yyy: will it suit you?
xxx:=(
yyy: what upset? Do you have a cactus there?
XXX: Hello, I would like to buy doctor's sausage from you.
Saleswoman: Which one do you like, a doctoral one similar to a milk one in the first row, or a doctoral one in the second row, which is similar to the one in the fifth row?
XXX: An edible one for me if I may...
Here are the courts:
she: horror-horror-horror!!)
______________________
Oh I'm a man o_o
he: I decided to go on the Kremlin diet and lose weight.
she: horror-horror-horror!!)
he: I will eat sausage without bread and drink tea without sugar :-D
she: ugh, I was already scared, what really :)
He: Why are you scared? in principle, it is worth focusing on it :)
she: she's just not used to hearing the phrase "Kremlin diet" from men.
In general, there are only three male diets: “We need to eat less”, “We need to move more” and for the most strong-willed - “We need to eat less and move more”.
I have a friend who, at 38, looks at least 10 years old.
less. Any complaint we have about age is perceived by her as personal.
an insult (and we all know this weakness of hers).
And now they are going with her husband from the bathhouse, in the hands of bags with towels,
they enter the entrance. And there, near the elevator, their neighbor is standing for 25 years, smoking and
communicates nicely with the young man. Moreover, the neighbor is still a prankster
that ... My friend says: "Before that, I had not seen that Irka was smoking. And
here she smokes right in my face, so defiantly, waiting for my reaction. Me too
I look at her closely and remain silent. And at that moment she says to her
guy: "Meet my parents."
The reaction of my girlfriend was instant: with the words "Home, cattle,
home", she began to walk around poor Irka on the back with her bag.
... A woman should not hint at her age! ...
To the question from the Microsoft test:
Where do you buy sausage?
1) In the sausage department of the store. She's fresh and delicious.
2) I download a virtual sausage cut from torrents. It's free there.
3) From the man who takes her out of the sausage factory. So what, that he carried it under a T-shirt? He is washing. Maybe.
4) I am the man from the previous answer.
Questions to be added:
"Do you buy sausage separately for each family member?"
"Do you cut the sausage with a knife recommended by the sausage manufacturer?"
"Do you like it when, after 2 years, your favorite sausage is no longer produced, and to cut a new sausage, you need to buy a new knife?..."
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