White vegetable cheese

1990/07/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Dietetika/Elikagaiak

In North America, doctors have made great propaganda in increasing favors of eating unsaturated fat. The work carried out over the years has reduced the average cholesterolemia of Americans by 20% and, at the same level, the number of victims of infarction.

In France, in recent times, cholesterol is actually being discovered. It is estimated that there are 1,700,000 people who have more than three grams of cholesterol per liter, being the normal level of 1.85 to 2 grams per liter. The French food industry is taking steps to tackle the problem. They want to get new fatty dairy products, with vegetable and unsaturated fats, but that does, maintaining the taste of products made with milk fat. Natural white "vegetable" cheese is a clear example of what we have said, even though budin, butter, cream, etc. also perform. All of them are made with soy fat, but maintaining the taste of real dairy products.

Statistics indicate that 0.8 grams of excess cholesterol per liter is as dangerous as 20 cigarettes a day in heart attack. Therefore, every time we need to be more careful in food problems.