Taste test: Are a latest food substitutes value a try? Find out

Cashew divert cappuccino
It came to us in a steel tumbler, frothy and sheer white. The aroma reminded us of uninformed divert but, in reality, this was cashew milk. This elementary part is a star of many of a drinks during a health bar, Vibe Liquiteria. In particular, their bestselling drink, a Cashew Milk Cappuccino (`210). The coffee splash was a elementary mixture of cashew milk, espresso and only a faintest spirit of foam; as a sweetener, they supplement in molasses. We favourite a levity that this bulb divert brought to a drink, nonetheless a essence was clever adequate to repress that of a coffee. The molasses combined an assumed benevolence that we could’ve finished without.

Taste test: The coffee scores high on creaminess and froth, and costs as many as a unchanging cappuccino. For those who don’t like their coffee strong, this works well.
Expert view: Cashew divert is bulb milk, that has identical fats as full-fat milk, and identical calories. It works as an occasional provide yet otherwise, you’re excellent immoderate skimmed milk.
Time: 9 am to 11.30
At: Shop 4, Rafi Mansion, 28th Road, nearby Guru Nanak Park, Bandra (W)
Call: 30151837

Quinoa puffs
Quinoa puffs seem to be a many renouned health food product to strike supermarket shelves. We attempted a Roasted Quinoa Puff with Olive and Herb from Healthy Alternatives (`149 for 125 gm). The puffs perceived churned reviews. We favourite a crunchiness and chatpata taste, yet didn’t lapse for seconds. For an consultant viewpoint on this and other items, we spoke to Karishma Chawla, nutritionist and owner of Eat Rite 24×7.

Taste test: Given a choice between puffs and popcorn, we would go with a latter. Popcorn is addictive and indeed creates we feel like you’ve eaten something substantial.
Expert view: we like a bottom yet not a combined salt, sugar, and divert solids in it. Quinoa is a formidable carb, it doesn’t boost your sugarine levels like popcorn does, and it has a reduce GI than popcorn, that is good.

Vegetable sausages
If you’ve ever eaten it, we know there’s zero utterly like duck or pig sausages. They’re an addictive, if unhealthy, treat. In a hunt for a healthier substitute, we bought a Classic Sausage from Veggie Champ (`212 for 180 gm). In terms of hardness and a approach they had to be cooked, they were identical to standard sausages yet they lacked ambience and felt a tad dry.

Taste test: Even yet we aren’t fans of unchanging processed meat, this product didn’t interest to us. Besides, it isn’t simply accessible in vital supermarkets or online.
Expert view: Any cold cuts will have vast amounts of fat and salt. we wouldn’t suggest it during all, either vegetarian or not.
Available at: Foodhall, Lower Parel.
Log on to: ahimsafood.in

Quinoa zucchini choc cake
When we consider chocolate cake, zucchini is not an part that comes to mind. So naturally, when we systematic a Quinoa Zucchini Gooey Chocolate with Roasted Almonds from a online store Healthy Treats, we weren’t awaiting much. The cake, when it arrived, had a slight burnt smell and demeanour to it. But a ambience won us over. It was ideally wet on a inside and crunchy on a top. The roasted almond slivers decorating a cake combined hardness and a slight benevolence to any slice. We favourite a fact that a cake wasn’t unenlightened and that there wasn’t any powerful ambience of zucchini, that tends to have a pointy flavour.

Taste test: We elite this to a chocolate cake since it had a same decline yet a calories. It’s a cost indicate that will make us consider twice about grouping it again.
Expert view: It works improved than any other cake — there’s no fat, full points for regulating quinoa. Zucchini is a healthy veggie and dim chocolate is good even yet it has sugar. If we are dieting and wish to indulge, this works.
Log on to: divyashealthytreats.com
Cost: 875 (500 gm), 1,750 (1 kg); fibre extra

Cashewnut cheese
Make approach for Anti-Cheese. It is done with only cashewnuts — dripping overnight, belligerent and afterwards left to perturbation for 24 hours. We systematic this product from a Orange Bowl, a vegan food association started by siblings Shamita and Tushar Goghia. Their Anti-Cheese comes in 4 flavours — Lime and Pepper, Herb ’n Garlic, Spicy Scallion and Zesty Jeera flavours; labelled during `350 each. We systematic a Lime and Pepper and a Herb ‘n Garlic. The Anti-Cheese can dope anyone with a tawny and cheesy texture. The orange and peppers one had a mutation of peppers yet a heat; a herb one lacked a essence of garlic.

Taste test: We favourite a tawny fibre of Anti-Cheese and notwithstanding a trite name, it was addictive. The cost is a tad on a aloft side, yet we don’t mind spending on it.
Expert view: In cashewnut cheese, a fat that we would find in normal cheese will still be there; almonds and walnuts would’ve been somewhat better. Also, cashewnuts are addictive, so from a health perspective, it’s not a improved alternative. It’s a good choice for vegans or those allergic to dairy.
Call: 9820178917

Soya chaap
It’s one of a few places where being feign works. The six-month-old Chaap ki Chhap is a tiny case in Andheri, that uses ridicule beef (chaap) to offer adult juicy Punjabi food. Their secret: soya. We attempted their ‘fish’ dish, Machhli Zameen Ki (`169). In terms of looks, it fit a check — looking like pieces of basa cooking in a sharp masala for hours. Instead of frying a ‘fish’, they grilled it over an open fire compartment it is cooked. The outcome was a plate that had a flaky, layered hardness of fish, yet nothing of a essence compared with a tangible thing. To finish a dish, it came served with lime, onions and packet yoghurt chutney.

Taste test: Soya machhli is engaging and juicy (given a right ingredients) yet doesn’t work as a fish substitute. That said, we cite a ambience to that of basa.
Expert view: Soya is a improved protein than lodge cheese, yet it is a second-class protein that is low in one or some-more of a essential amino acids. If we wish good protein, it is best to hang to animal products.
Time: 5 pm to 12.30 am
At: Shop 37, Evershine-2, Seven Bungalows, Andheri (W)
Call: 8291493369

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