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Latest comment: 2 years ago by Jberkel in topic plant-based rice?

plant-based rice?

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@Soap I'm not sure this is a good example. What is plant-based rice? Rice is already a plant? Jberkel 23:14, 10 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

It means the food is made from a source other than the traditional one. Plant-based rice is typically made from chickpeas, lentils, etc and then reshaped to resemble the texture of traditional rice. Plant-based pizza crust is made of cauliflower. Think of it, perhaps, as like saying that humans are animals, but if you have an animal loose on your property, no one will think of a human. This means that the food being described must already be made of plant products in its traditional design, and therefore definition 2 cannot be subsumed into definition 1.
I only found this out yesterday, but I think it's important to have this sense explicitly listed here because there are many people who are confused by what I believe is relatively new terminology. Soap 23:23, 10 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
Ok, this is confusing terminology… And also strange to still call it rice, since it's just rice-shaped (however, milk → soy milk etc.) I'm only familiar with lentil pasta, which would then be "plant-based pasta"? Although this could also mean pasta made without eggs. Jberkel 23:55, 10 December 2022 (UTC)Reply