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Vegan Dishes Without Added Oil, Salt, or Sugar VOLUME XXXIII, NO 1 XXXIII, VOLUME Science, Caring, and Vegan Living VEGETAJ OURNAL R IANSince 1982 The savory side of Chocolate Get ics H t e Do Vegans & toddlers • to eat cology Vegetarians e veggies! • H ealt stay Veggie? H Survey Results $4.50 USA/$5.50 CANADA www.vrg.org MANAGING EDITOR: Debra Wasserman FEATURES utrition otline SENIOR EDITOR: Samantha Gendler N H EDITORS: Carole Hamlin, Jane Michalek, Charles Stahler 6 · Beyond Meat Veggie Chicken Strips NUTRITION EDITOR: Reed Mangels, PhD, RD Jeanne Yacoubou, MS, highlights this Maryland company. QUESTION: What are some ways to Toddlers often don’t care for NUTRITIONAL ANALYSES: Suzanne Hengen REED MANGELS, PhD, RD get toddlers to eat vegetables? the bitter taste of some vegetables. COVER PHOTOGRAPHY: Linda Long 7 · Kendal at Oberlin COVER FOOD STYLING: Jill Keller J.C., via email. Choosing sweeter vegetables such VRG VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR A retirement community offering vegetarian/vegan options. as carrots, corn, peas, and sweet AND CATALOG MANAGER: Soren Clarkwest ANSWER: It is important to try to potatoes can lead to success. For WEB DEVELOPMENT: Alan Polster 10 · The Savory Side of Chocolate RESEARCH DIRECTOR: Jeanne Yacoubou find ways to get toddlers to eat other vegetables, one way to Debra Daniels-Zeller gets creative with cocoa. vegetables. Children who eat few reduce the bitterness is to serve RESTAURANT GUIDE/MEMBERSHIP: Sonja Helman VEGETARIAN RESOURCE GROUP ADVISORS: vegetables tend to also eat a lim- them raw or lightly steamed rather Arnold Alper, MD; Nancy Berkoff, EdD, RD; 16 · Vegan Dishes without Added Oil, ited variety of vegetables as adults1. than cooking them for a long Catherine Conway, MS, RD; Jim Dunn; Adults who eat more vegetables time. Low-fat dips (hummus or Heather Gorn, MPhil; Suzanne Havala Hobbs, Salt, or Sugar and fruits seem to have a lower salad dressing) can also be used DrPH, MS, RD; Enette Larson-Meyer, PhD, RD; risk for many diseases2; promot- to mask the bitter taste. Research Reed Mangels, PhD, RD; Jerome Marcus, MD; Virginia Messina, MPH, RD; Mark Rifkin, MS, RD; 21 · VRG’s 2013 Video Contest Winners ing vegetables in toddlers’ diets is has shown that use of low-fat dips Brad Scott, MBA; Eric Sharer, MPH, RD, LDN; a great way to help them develop increased the acceptance of veg- Wayne Smeltz, PhD 22 · The I-Can’t-Chew Vegan Diet 4 healthy eating lifelong behaviors. etables . A light sprinkle of salt (by Yvonne Martel modifies a vegan diet after jaw surgery. One of the simplest ways to get the parent or caregiver) can also COPYRIGHT 2014 BY THE VEGETARIAN toddlers to eat vegetables is to eat help to increase vegetable intake, RESOURCE GROUP, INCORPORATED PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 24 · Do Vegans and Vegetarians Stay Veggie? them yourself. Toddlers love to possibly because salt hides some of The Vegetarian Journal (ISSN 0885-7636) is copy parents, so if you eat mainly the bitter flavor5. published quarterly. The contents of Vegetarian 27 · Gellan Gum is All Vegetable burgers and potatoes, it’s likely Children will eat more vegeta- Journal and our other publications, including web they will, too. On the other hand, bles when they’re hungry. Serving information, are not intended to provide personal This issue’s Nutrition if you eat red pepper strips and a plate of raw vegetables before medical advice. Medical advice should be obtained DEPARTMENTS from a qualified health professional. We often Nutrition Hotline 2 Hotline recommends broccoli florets, chances are that the meal is one way to increase depend on company statements for product Ways to encourage toddlers to eat vegetables your toddler will at least try these acceptance. One study has shown and ingredient information. It is impossible to be ways to get toddlers to foods. Similarly, peer pressure may that when children were given 100% sure about a statement, info can change, Note from the Coordinators 4 eat more vegetables. work. Seeing friends or siblings vegetables before a meal, their people have different views, and mistakes can be eating vegetables has made some total vegetable intake (from before made. Please use your own best judgement about Letters to the Editors 5 whether a product is suitable for you. To be sure, toddlers more eager to eat veg- and during the meal) was higher do further research or confirmation on your own. Scientific Update 8 etables, too. than when they were only served SUBMISSIONS: We do not accept unsolicited Notes from The VRG Scientific Department 15 Toddlers have a strong need vegetables at the meal6. manuscripts. Please send a query letter first. for stability – they don’t typically Involving toddlers in choos- ADVERTISING: Vegetarian Journal does not accept Veggie Bits 28 like new things. That’s important ing vegetables, at the store or a paid advertising. We do review vegan products. EMAIL: Contact The VRG via e-mail at [email protected]. Book Reviews 30 to keep in mind when introduc- farmer’s market, in growing and The VRG’s website is <www.vrg.org>. Help Create a Veggie World 32 ing a new food. Don’t be put off harvesting vegetables, and in pre- CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Please send change if they reject it at first. Research paring vegetables often increases of address to P.O. Box 1463, Baltimore, MD Vegan Cooking Tips 34 shows that toddlers may need their willingness to eat them. Even 21203. You may also e-mail a change Carrots! by Chef Nancy Berkoff, RD, EdD, CCE to experience a food six or more something as simple as putting of address to [email protected]. times before it becomes “famil- grated carrot “hair” and cherry to- FOR INFORMATION, CALL (410) 366-VEGE. Vegetarian Action 35 3 Also, if you do not want your name traded Mark Rifkin, Vegan Registered Dietitian, by Karen Leibowitz iar” and accepted . As they get mato “eyes” on a rice cake spread to other organizations, please let us know. to know a food, they may smell with hummus can make your little Vegan Drinks, DC Veg Fest, VRG Scholarships Back Cover it, taste it and then spit it out, or one more eager to eat carrots and lick it. Some families find that a tomatoes. Vegetarian Journal is one project of The Vegetarian Resource Group. We are a nonprofit that one-bite policy (you have to eat a Some experts recommend a educates the public about veganism/vegetarianism and the interrelated issues of health, nutrition, small bite) works as children get ecology, ethics, and world hunger. To join VRG and receive Vegetarian Journal in the USA, acquainted with new vegetables. Continued on page 15... send $25 to The Vegetarian Resource Group, P.O. Box 1463, Baltimore, MD 21203, or go www.vrg.org to <www.vrg.org/donate>. Additional donations support our outreach and research. 2 Vol. 33, Issue One 2014 VEGETARIAN JOURNAL VEGETARIAN JOURNAL Vol. 33, Issue One 2014 3 NOTE FROM THE COORDINATORS l e t t e r s CONSIDER person just wanted a change from VRG’s MEMORIAL meat. I encountered absolutely no INTRODUCING AND HONORARY hostility, dislike, or sarcasm from A WEEKEND OF COAST-TO-COAST VEGGIE BURGERS anyone regarding the non-meat GIFT PROGRAM AT YOUTH SPORTS menu listing. How often have you wanted to Jeanne Y., via e-mail make a gift in honor of a loved TOURNAMENTS VEGAN OUTREacH My sons’ rugby club recently one or friend but weren’t sure THE 50+ VEGAN t the time of writing this piece, we just exhibited at Natural Products which charities are vegetarian- hosted an annual multi-county Expo East, the main trade show for the natural foods industry. It was friendly, pro-environmental, or tournament. The club was respon- CROWD gratifying to learn from several supermarket dietitians visiting our booth pro-animal rights? Please remem- sible for providing food and How great to see two articles for A drinks at a concession stand. As the over 50 reader in Issue 3 2013 that they use our Guide to Food Ingredients. Kudos to Jeanne Yacoubou, who ber The Vegetarian Resource researches ingredients for us throughout the year, as well as Heather Gorn, Group. You can make a gift in a vegetarian parent, I suggested Vegetarian Journal! My new who posts this information to our Facebook, Twitter, and blog. Thank you to memory of a loved one or as a to their coach that veggie burgers book, co-authored with Virginia Priscilla, whose language skills helped us talk with Spanish, Portuguese, and living tribute to honor someone would be a healthy alternative to Messina, MPH, RD and Carol J. Chinese-speaking visitors. And thank you to Chris who used his Spanish and you care about on a special occa- the typical hamburgers and hot Adams, is also for those of us in Hindi to speak with businesspeople from Latin America and India. We especially sion, such as a wedding or birth. dogs that my own sons wouldn’t the second half of our lives. Never enjoyed connecting entrepreneurs producing new vegan foods with marketers We’ll send an acknowledgement eat. He agreed. Too Late to Go Vegan; The Over and venture capitalists who may be able to help them. And our editor Samantha to you and to the recipient(s) you Not knowing how well veggie 50 Guide to Adopting and will be reporting on some of the new vegan products she found. choose. Your gift will support burgers would sell at a rugby tour- Thriving on a Plant-Based Diet is The same weekend we were at Natural Products Expo East, our volunteers educational outreach programs nament, I supplied twenty-four available.