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- Hello, my name is Rachel and I am so excited
because today my friends and I are gonna be
trying out some lab grown dairy for the first time.
So Merle and I are plant-based,
and Alex and Spencer are both lactose intolerant.
So we're gonna be able to give you a variety
of perspectives and opinions when trying out these products.
So the company Perfect Day makes
an animal free dairy protein
and they've partnered with other brands
who have produced a variety of products such as
ice cream, milk, chocolate, and cream cheese.
By putting micro flora through a fermentation process
they're able to produce proteins that are identical
to milk protein, but there's absolutely no animal
involved in this process.
So that means they are also
completely vegan and animal free.
If you have a milk protein allergy,
then you should not consume these products.
But if you're lactose intolerant, then these products
are great because they're completely lactose free.
So we're gonna taste test a bunch of products
and see how similar this is to dairy.
- I Feel like it's gonna be the closest we've had
to mimicking dairy flavor.
I don't know if it's gonna be perfect though.
- I am all aboard The lab grow meat train,
lab grown dairy train.
- Choo choo!
- I'm excited to try it.
When I do eat cheese,
- I know, How bad is it?
- A little bit of a rumble in my tumble,
but I'll eat it anyway. You know what I'm saying?
- I will not sacrifice it because it tastes so good.
- Yeah.
- But later on I am regretting it.
- Here we have some plant based non-dairy cream cheese
and then we have our lab grown dairy cream cheeses.
One is chive and one is harissa flavored.
- [Merle] and modern kitchen sent us
this cream cheese for free.
- All right, let's try the non-dairy one first.
- [Merle] The smear is good on this one.
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Hmm. Little heavy on the tartness.
- Little tangy, tangy.
- Why is it tasting like that?
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- [Merle] It tastes like the Miyoko's mozzarella
in a schmear.
- You love that word.
- I do love that word.
- You're like, I don't get a lot of opportunities to use it.
- I'm gonna maximize.
- Are you getting sour?
- This feels like sour hummus.
- It's okay. I think the Kite Hill one might be
a little better in my opinion, actually.
- Yeah, I agree with that.
- It's the thought that I have in my head
of what cream cheese should taste like,
and this is that but with like four limes in it.
- Okay, are you ready?
- Oh my God. You scared me.
- [Rachel] I haven't had dairy in like over eight years.
- Your belly's about to blow.
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- Holy (bleep). This is cream cheese.
- I like this.
This is more like what I'm used to.
- This is up my alley.
- It feels like we're like legit eating cream cheese.
- It's so Good.
- [Spencer] It tastes delicious. The texture's there.
- I eat it with a spoon.
- It has like essence of cow on it.
- Mm hmm. I know what you mean though.
- My brain is tweaking out right now.
- I feel like the texture's a little bit different.
Not by much.
- But I feel like it's grainier. Just tiny little bit.
- This tastes exactly what I remember
cream cheese tasting like.
And it's good.
- This gets a one. Because if I was in dire straights,
and I needed to eat something, and it called for a spread,
sure.
But other than that, no thank you.
- I would say a three.
If you do have a milk protein allergy,
you can't eat the other ones.
It is not terrible.
But compared to the other ones, this is just lacking.
- I would rate that 6.5.
It'll do in a pinch, but it's super sour.
- I'm gonna give this a 6.5 outta 10.
I'm not copying Merle. It's just what I feel.
- Those get a nine out 10 for me.
If regular cream cheese for me is always a 10,
that's a nine.
- The cows are my besties.
Nine outta 10.
- I am gonna give it a 9.5.
Only because I do remember having other cream cheeses
in the past that were like a little more fluffy.
- Um, I genuinely don't think it could get any better.
- Next we are going to try animal free chocolate milk.
This is some chocolate oat milk for comparison.
- [Merle] Okay. We're gonna go in with the oat milk first.
- Cheers guys.
- Mm. Smells good.
- This is really good.
- I'm into it to be honest.
Ooh, there's a little bit of a coating, you know.
- Ah. It just feels like I feel safe.
- I kind of thought that this oat milk would be better
'cause I really like oat milk.
It's kind of chalky.
- I never liked milk like by itself.
I'm scared about this one.
And I'm still not convinced any of this stuff
is not actually milk. 'Cause I don't understand it.
- Merle thinks I'm trying to cancel her.
- Uh uh.
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- I don't know how to describe how it tastes.
That is unnerving for me.
- It's like a malted milk ball.
- It feels like it's spoiled chocolate milk.
- I wouldn't give it spoiled.
I would give it, off.
- There's like a tart. There's like a tart to it.
- Yeah, it's weird.
- It's got this weird like, aftertaste.
Almost like fermented.
- The oat milk is giving whole milk thick.
This is giving like skim milk, dairy water.
- It's no go.
- The oat milk is a 10.
- That is a 10 out of 10.
- I'm gonna give this a six out of 10.
It just had a little bit of a weird chalky the aftertaste.
- I agree with you.
I'm also gonna give it a six.
I am copying Rachel.
- I think it's a one.
- That's a one.
I don't think I could ever drink it again.
- I'm gonna give this like a one.
- Oh my God.
- Maybe like a two. Two, That's my final answer.
- I'm gonna give this a three.
Compared to the cream cheese
this is like not bringing the dairy.
- No, not at all.
- It's time for ice cream!
Do you know how long I've been waiting for this moment?
- I can tell by how tightly your fists are clinched.
- So first we're gonna try some good old
Ben and Jerry's non-dairy.
This is just like a cookie dough flavor.
- The texture looks pretty good on this.
- It's lacking.
- Not my favorite.
- If this didn't have cookie dough in it,
I wouldn't still be eating it.
- I would say in terms of like the texture of this
it's really good.
I just think it's like a little bit too sweet.
- I can like taste the almond milk. I almost feel like.
- We love almond milk.
I'm not sure how much I would like to eat
an ice cream form though.
- Lab grown ice cream You say.
I'm excited. Vanilla and cookies.
- Wow. This looks like ice cream.
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So many things are happening to your face.
- Whoa.
- To me this just tastes like ice cream.
- It's delicious.
- I like that.
- I haven't had that milky taste in so long.
That is really spot on.
- I just don't know why this
is like already melted.
Like it's gone.
- This is the best closest to like
real vanilla ice cream that I've ever had.
But as soon as you put it in your mouth,
it's like Houdini. It's just gone.
It's gone.
- But while it was in my mouth, I liked it.
- It doesn't have enough body to it.
It doesn't have enough structure.
- I guess we love runny ice cream.
- Give it to me.
- Give me more.
- Just here for a good time, not a long time.
- [Merle] I'm gonna give the Ben and Jerry's,
I'll give it like a 6.8.
It's close to a seven, but it's,
I can't quite give it a seven.
- I'm gonna give it a seven.
- Ben, Jerr, Can't do it.
I'm gonna give that like a four.
- I don't think it deserves that much.
- Really.
- I would give this like a 2.5 or a three.
- And then this soup.
I'm gonna have to give it like 4.5.
Just for the experience.
I mean it's literally a bowl of soup.
- I'm gonna give this one a six.
No other non-dairy ice cream has been able to replicate
that milky taste the way this has been able to.
That being said, melts way too fast.
- I'm gonna up it to a 5.5 final.
When I first ate it, I was like,
damn this tastes like ice cream.
It just didn't last long.
- That lab grown's gonna get a nine outta 10 for me.
If 10 is like the ice cream that I know and love,
the lab grown is a nine.
- I agree. I'm with you on that.
I would say 9.5.
- Last but not least, some animal free dairy chocolate.
First we're gonna try a standard dark chocolate
that we would eat because we can't have milk chocolate.
- Hmm.
- It's just bitter.
It'd be great melted over some strawberries.
- I like you.
- I'm a dark chocolate kind of gal,
but there's something going on in this one.
- Why is the salty?
- I'm into it.
- This looks like real milk chocolate!
- Oops, I didn't cheers you.
- That's okay.
- No that's fake.
- It doesn't taste like milk chocolate.
- Totally.
- I don't know. You know how sometimes,
- I almost choked.
- Once you let it set up a campfire
in your mouth for a little while.
The milkiness comes through.
- I don't know if it's because I'm so used
to eating dark chocolate nowadays,
but this tastes too sweet to me.
- Like it feels like it's itching my throat.
I found out I am allergic to milk today.
- I actually will say this is pretty good.
The first initial bite was a little bit unsettling, but.
- Always a good sign.
- I am not a fan.
- I'm getting major, major milk aftertaste.
- Me too. Me too.
- So that's good.
- As dark chocolates go for me, I'm gonna give it an eight.
- I feel like this is a good 7.5.
- I'm gonna give this an 8.5 outta 10.
Because I maybe have had a better dark chocolate than this.
- I'll give it a six.
If you like dark chocolate you'll be very happy.
- I almost died with this one, so we're doing like a two.
Taking out the death part,
I feel like the taste wasn't there.
- I'm gonna give it a five.
It does taste like milk chocolate
and it has the same kind of like sugary graininess
that like milk chocolate sometimes has.
- I'm gonna give it a 7.5.
I just think it has a weird aftertaste.
But that milkiness is undeniable.
- I actually am going to once again agree with you.
I think I'm gonna give this a 7.5.
I like it a lot more than I like this dark chocolate.
In a pinch melted down things should be golden.
- We were 50% into lab grown dairy.
- Yeah, I'm into it.
- I'm excited to see what is gonna happen
in the future in the flavors.
- I also don't eat dairy for my health,
so I don't know how much I wanna be introducing
like milk protein back into my diet anyway.
- That's Fair.
- My stomach feels weird, but it's not at the level
of like having pizza.
- Does it feel like you could trust a fart right now?
- Yeah.
- If I had been eating cheese during this entire time
I would feel it right by now.
But I don't feel like that at all.
I feel that is the feather.
- The vegan industry has been going strong for a while now
and lab grown dairy is just on the precipice.
So it's only gonna get better.
- For the first ever products that are lab grown dairy
these are pretty spectacular.
Go try it yourself
and let us know what you think in the comments down below.
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