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The protein part needs to be repeated. People in the US (at least) already consume far more protein than required. It's not without risks, as too much protein can screw with your liver and kidneys, and even lead to osteoporosis, among other health issues. Yet companies keep shoving it into everything as if we're in a famine, and people don't seem aware that too much protein can have downsides at all.
People in the US (at least) already consume far more protein than required.
I don't think it's that far above the recommended minimums. CDC data shows that Americans get about 15-16% of their calories from protein, and on a 2500 calorie diet that might mean 100g of protein per day.
There research that there is some benefit up to about twice the recommended minimum before excess protein starts to cause cardiovascular or kidney issues, depending on activity levels.
So for that 90kg person on a 2500 calorie diet, with the American average of 16% of calories from protein, we're talking about 100g of protein per day. Basically in the middle between the recommended minimum (0.8g per kg of body weight or 72g for our 90kg person) and the upper limits of optimum amounts for the very active (1.5g per kg, or 135g for a 90g person).
The protein fad is annoying, but it's probably one of the less harmful issues facing public health in the United States today.
90kg is waaaay above what an average person should weight. 70 kg is much closer to a healthy weight.
I guess obesity has the upside of making protein consumption of USians appear reasonable? Silver lining!
90kg is about the average weight of a European man.
I'm not sure. Unless you are 1.90m tall or very buff, 90kg puts you in the overweight category.
Yeah but gainz bro
Exactly I mean if I don’t eat 5kg of protein per day all my muscles will atrophy immediately
I remember when Yoplait started putting out a bunch of yogurts that were supposed to taste like desserts and they were better for you because lowfat or something. Now we're doing this crap again but trying to eat a year's worth of protein in one meal as well.
Industrial Agriculture Corporations: "YOU WILL CONSUME BYPRODUCTS FOR A PREMIUM PRICE AND YOU WILL LOVE IT."
A lot of the Low-Fat marketed products were loaded with sugar, which no doubt played a part in the global obesity levels skyrocketing.
At least when things are crammed with protein, it usually ends up with fewer grams of sugar overall?
Bring on the jacked generation Beta, I’m all here for it.
I don't know.There's been at least one protein powder that turned out to be overpriced cake mix. https://www.reddit.com/user/Sufficient_Letter175/comments/1j2xf2l/holmes_protein_mix_scamfake_macros/
I didn't get very into yogurt until after I had moved from the US to Canada, and now I'm haunted by the huge selection of flavours in the US that I no longer have access to. That's okay, though. Liberté Greek yogurt is far superior to anything I ever tried down there.
Lol, I feel attacked here. The orange / lime flavors were amazing. Now I'm on to light strawberries in skyr.
That sounds like a good quick breakfast! I'm just more upset at the marketing for those and diet culture in general than anything
This feels like a nothing burger to me. If people enjoy yoghurt and biscuits then let them have that. Taste is entirely subjective anyway, and if it reminds them of cheese cake then I guess it does. I personally think Dr. Pepper tastes like liquid cheese cake, and no one can stop me from thinking otherwise.
Dr. Pepper tastes like liquid cheese cake
Bro, wtf type of cheese cake are you eating?
This kind. Main flavour is bitter almond and almond. Dr. Pepper has a very distinct bitter almond flavour. Ergo, it tastes like cheesecake to me.
Now I’m tempted to try this, or a variation of it anyway.. I like dr pepper and I make a mean cheesecake..
Can you recommend a recipe? Half the ones I’ve looked at don’t even mention almonds.
I've never actually made the cheese variant myself, so I can't really recommend a recipe. I found this one though, and it's very from-scratch. I saw a few others that used store-bought cottage cheese but given that this recipe calls for mixing the flour in with the milk when making the cheese I'm not 100% sure that'd work out as well.
Ingredients
My own notes:
Directions:
Heat the milk to 37C (98.6F). Mix in the flour and add the rennet. Stir and let sit for approximately 30 minutes. Stir again so the whey separates out, and let sit for another 30 minutes.
Dampen a thin kitchen towel/cheese cloth and put in a colander. put the colander in a large bowl. Pour the cheese into the colander and let drain for approximately 8 hours in a refrigerator.
Turn the oven on 200C (392F).
Finely chop the sweet almonds. Grate the bitter almonds finely.
Put the cheese mixture in a bowl. Mix together cream, sugar, and egg in a separate bowl and combine the mixture together with the almonds with the cheese mixture. Grease a pan (2½ litres) and pour in the batter. Cook in the oven, preferably in a water bath, for approximately 55 minutes. Let the cake cool and set, you can do this in a refrigerator.
Serve the cheese cake lukewarm with whipped cream and jam.
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This looks to me like the Småland variation recipe. There's one from Hälsingland which I've never had. It sounds like it's quite different and it's generally served with cloudberries or a "juice sauce."
The wikipedia page for ostkaka also has this note, which I think was kind of fun.
According to the tradition from Småland, one always starts eating ostkaka from the middle. One theory for this is that in the old days, it was baked in a copper pot with a tin lining. If cracks appeared in the tin, the cheesecake would mix with the toxic copper. This way, the more distinguished guests would at least not ingest as much of the poison. Others claim it's because the cheesecake is creamiest in the middle and a bit drier and more burnt at the edges, which were saved for the children and the servants.
This feels like a nothing burger to me.
It isn't a burger; it's a cake. Duuhhhh...
You probably eat enough protein. If you're not actively doing muscle building levels of exercise and are eating a normal western diet you're getting plenty.
When I start biking again as it warms up I'll probably have to intentionally eat some extra protein, solely because I've lost shape over the past year and am (essentially) a vegetarian who doesn't pay attention to macros
It's ridiculous a lot of people and their obsession with protein. There is protein in all sorts of foods they get, 10 percent or so of wheat, lots in potatoes, other grains. You aren't going to be lacking eating all carbs even.
Often while they shun fat, which is the important part, without an amount of fat the stomach doesn't feel full and you will overeat. And people get way too much sugar instead of that fat. Fructose, which is half of sugar and 60% of high fructose corn syrup, isn't recognized as food and does not contribute to a full feeling.
Basically people have been misled in nutrition by people trying to sell them stuff, and are too obsessed with protein, not appreciative of fat which is key to a lot of things, and obsessed with getting more protein than a normal diet would provide that we don't really need.
Feels good to read these comments. Wasn't that long ago that I'd get downvoted to oblivion by the protein bros for raising these easy to verify facts.
Too much protein can make you sick, too. It can cause kidney stones, for example. (This only applies to animal protein.)
Slightly OT, but I bought a Ninja Creami a couple years ago, excited about all the crazy ice cream recipes and experiments I would find online. Little did I know that 99% of content creators with a Ninja Creami only make disgusting looking protein powder ice cream over and over and over. What's the recipe for chocolate ice cream? Chocolate protein powder. And for vanilla ice cream? Vanilla protein powder. And for strawberry ice cream? Strawberry protein powder, of course. And so on.
I have nothing against adding protein to your diet/recipes but this is just ridiculous at this point.
This take is confusing from a (central) european perspective. Only the New York Style cheesecake uses cream cheese while the European original uses Quark which is extremely rich in protein.
Saying "European original" is a bit weird given that Europe is large with plenty of variation even within short distances. Like potato salad is not the same between East/West Germany.
In Sweden, the standard "ostkaka" (lit. cheesecake) refers to the Småland cheesecake which at a glance looks like the burnt basque cheesecake, but is far from the same. What we call "cheesecake" here generally refers to the New York style one.
Hell my go-to recipe for the Småland-style cheesecake doesn't even use dairy. The signature flavour isn't cheese, but bitter almond, and almonds. I substitute cheese for courgettes. It's less decadent but just as delicious.
Yes, that is true, I simplified. I was referring to it as the original because it is where the American recipe originated.
Why is or called cheese cake when it doesn't contain dairy or dairy alternatives? It sounds really interesting. I might give it a try. I indeed have never heard of any Scandinavian cheese cake approaches.
Baby boomers are convinced they are one meal away from protein starvation.
Boomers? All the “high protein” weird shit I see on social media is Gen Z or maybe millennials making stuff with hard boiled eggs, cottage cheese, and yoghurt and chucking it in a blender.
Yeah it's others now, the boomers have been on the protein kick from 20 years prior though. They may still be doing so but no one cares any longer.
It's NOT cheesecake.
You can take stale phyllo dough and put it in yogurt with some orange zest and juice and sugar, etc. and it makes a decent cake.
Let...people do what they want, if it doesn't impact your life in a meaningful way? This category of hot take is the product of excessive social media and feeling personally attacked by other folks living their lives. It misses so much! Sure, a fad like this may not be correct in all contexts, but the individuals participating and their motivations matter. We can choose to be happy for people trying to be healthier, even if the critical thinking isn't on point.
In my continuing opinion: Protein focus is the least harmful macro to bindge, especially in America. We're in an era of 16 syrup pump frappes and deap fried saturated fat fast food...not to mention the satiating effect of protein to reduce overall calorie consumption.
You've clearly never had a 10% fat yogurt.
I made a Tres Leches cake the other day and it felt so fake and made up the entire time.
It started with separating egg whites and whipping to STIFF peaks, takes a long time, with added sugar, in a separate bowl mixing sifted cake flour, sugar, baking powder, egg yolks, salt, and sour cream and prepping a pan with parchment paper lined with coconut oil. Oven preheated to 350F. Mix the two bowls to consistent color then add to pan and then oven, if your timing is off the egg mix might deflate and we don't want that.
Then they take this beautiful tall fluffy cake and they poor a mixture of canned milk on it? Like, wtf? And they top it with whipped cream topping? Though it does have to sit in the fridge for a while to soak it all in, but still.
I actually had more heavy cream leftover so I reduced it into Dulce Leches and that drizzled on top made the cake a Quatro Leches Cake.
240 grams flour
3/4 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp salt
5 eggs
250g sugar ( about 1/4th cup to the whites SLOWLY, rest to yolk mix )
1/2 cup Sour Cream
They said FiniteBanjo was crazy, they said it couldn't be done. But after a lifetime of searching, they found the mythical fourth milk
It is about choice. Want to have healthy similar option. Good! Want to have the original thing? Righto.
But when you ask for a deliciously creamy cheesecake that is absolutely a lot in regard of calories and you get the alternative. That's where is goes wrong.
Mismanaged expectations.
I tried it. It tasted nice, but definitely no cheesecake. Needed a bit of sugar too, at least for plain Greek yogurt.
Exactly. Use soy yoghurt instead. Get some plant protein up in this bitch
Mmmm Plantcake.
Or cheese
Liam is risen
lol weird thing to get pressed over.