Of Chocolate and Vegans For people who need a health-based justification to indulge, studies show that dark chocolate is a great source of flavonoids, which are antioxidants that help increase heart health. As a naturally vegan ingredient, adding milk to chocolate is just not necessary. While chocolate chips should be assumed to not be vegan due to their milk content, there are many vegan chocolate chip brands that do create a vegan-friendly treat to be enjoyed by all.  Make sure to check out our vegan hoodies and apparel when you're done! Some brands make dairy-free chocolate chips purely by chance, while others go out of their way to market towards this demographic. Whatever the reasons the company has, it’s important...

Is Puff Pastry Vegan? Puff pastry is a flaky, light pastry that became popular in France, where it is known as pâte feuilletée. However, old books point to puff pastry originally coming from Muslim Spain. The first recorded puff pastry recipe is found in a Spanish recipe book published in the year 1607. This type of pastry is quite similar to the Middle Eastern phyllo, and many people confuse the two. However, they are distinct: Traditionally, puff pastry is made with just flour, butter, and water, while phyllo also contains oil and sometimes white vinegar or egg yolk. Puff pastry is incredibly versatile. It is used for both sweet and savory dishes, ranging from appetizers to main courses to desserts....

Going vegan can change your lifestyle and draw respect in the community towards you because refraining from eating any part or products of the animals around us is what makes a good practicing and respectful vegan. Cheese, milk, meat, eggs are all taboo and not eating them would give you that inner feeling of happiness and content because the animals are part of our integrated ecosystem and are important for our existence in this world, and killing and eating them is not what we should be doing. If for instance we contemplate for a brief moment that there are no animals in the world only our species the human beings, and then think what could happen. It will be difficult...

In a hurry? You can purchase our favorite vegan ranch on Amazon here. We humans have accumulated our tastes to an unbelievable extent to include animal products in most of what we consume on a daily basis and there has been no end to the immense craving we have for them. It is time that we came to understand that animals too have a right to live and if they go, we go too and that would be very sad indeed but when that day comes it would be too late for us to reverse the process because the damage would have been done. It is time that we took it into our hearts that if we are to take...