Daiya cheese has 90 calories per 1/4 cup serving, with six grams of fat, 2 grams of it being saturated fat, 1 gram fiber, and 1gram protein, with 15% of the daily requirement for calcium. Interstingly, it is not soy-based like most other vegan cheeses, but its main ingredients are tapioca or arrowroot flours, canola oil, safflower oill, coconut oil, and pea protein.
I enjoyed my grilled cheese sandwich with a spinach salad topped with Follow Your Heart Chick'n Free Chick'n and ground flax seeds. Yum!
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This cheese has just become available in my part of the country (western NC), and it truly is good!! I enjoy it right out of the package! And I had sworn off commercial vegan cheeses since all of them tasted so ..... well, yucky.
I've used both the cheddar and the mozzarella versions, and love them both!!
I have heard so much about this cheese (at first from my non-vegan cousin who was trying to have something available for me at her dinner party). I told her, "vegan cheese? don't bother! it tastes terrible" but the more I've been hearing about it, the more curious I've gotten. Last night I tried a bit of it on top of some vegan chili and it truly was the best vegan cheese I've had, albeit a little salty-tasting for me (I HATE salt, I never use it on anything). They still get an A+ in my book, and coming in 2nd place is the block of Follow Your Heart "It Melts" cheese.
Thanks a lot for introducing this vegan cheese. Sounds wonderful and delicious.
Did you get this at Whole Foods? I need to go look for this. Cheese is really a tough one.
Keep these food tips coming!! Thanks.
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