It only took one time for me ruining a pizza with congealed palm oil deliberately masquerading as “mozzarella cheese” to be 100% on big dairy’s side here.
If it’s not an animal product, it shouldn’t be labeled “milk” or “cheese”
The term “milk” is an old chemistry term referring to a “heterogeneous mixture of insoluble compounds”. “Colloid” is the modern term. Think “milk of magnesia”, which is used as an antacid. It is called a milk because the Mg(OH)2 doesn’t dissolve and just forms a suspension. Almond milk is a suspension of ground up almond particles. Cow milk is a suspension of fat particles that won’t dissolve. This is why milk is homogenized: because it wants to form a floating fat layer and water layer. That’s unappealing so they fake making it look the same throughout. It is not a homogeneous solution. So anything you can mix up in water that doesn’t dissolve and it stays suspended is “milk”.
It only took one time for me ruining a pizza with congealed palm oil deliberately masquerading as “mozzarella cheese” to be 100% on big dairy’s side here.
If it’s not an animal product, it shouldn’t be labeled “milk” or “cheese”
The term “milk” is an old chemistry term referring to a “heterogeneous mixture of insoluble compounds”. “Colloid” is the modern term. Think “milk of magnesia”, which is used as an antacid. It is called a milk because the Mg(OH)2 doesn’t dissolve and just forms a suspension. Almond milk is a suspension of ground up almond particles. Cow milk is a suspension of fat particles that won’t dissolve. This is why milk is homogenized: because it wants to form a floating fat layer and water layer. That’s unappealing so they fake making it look the same throughout. It is not a homogeneous solution. So anything you can mix up in water that doesn’t dissolve and it stays suspended is “milk”.
Not to consumers, which is ultimately the only thing that should matter when making decisions on how food should and should not be labeled.
Read the package next time dummy
So you’re the reason why we need warning labels on everything.
Warning labels aren’t helpful when they’re intentionally misleading. That’s kinda the entire point.