Treats for vegans
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Tracy Turner – The Columbus Dispatch
Chocolate-chip cookies without butter, eggs or bleached flour and less refined sugar?
Yup, and they taste good, too.
At least that’s what more consumers say as they flock to buy locally baked vegan cookies and cakes now sold at several coffeehouses and grocers throughout Columbus.
Pattycake Vegan Bakery, 3009 N. High St. in Clintonville, has developed a healthy following.
The bakery counts eight coffee shops and grocers as clients, including Clintonville Community Market, Cup O’ Joe and the Wexner Center for the Arts.
That’s in addition to an increasing number of walk-ins who want pastries minus the animal products.
The bakery has even spoken with Whole Foods about placing its vegan baked goods on the grocer’s shelves, said Jennie Scheinbach, who owns Pattycake and is the master behind the vegan recipes.
“There’s really a growing movement for veganism now,” said Scheinbach, who bakes an average of 3,000 items a week. “Even nonvegans are coming in to buy because of health concerns.”
Vegans are strict vegetarians who avoid all animal-related items, including cheese, eggs, honey and milk.
Fueled by an increase in consumers seeking more-healthful fare, the market for vegetarian and vegan foods has nearly doubled this year to $2.8 billion, up from $1.5 billion just three years ago, according to Mintel Consumer Intelligence in Chicago.
Vegetarians have a lower risk of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and hypertension, according to the American Dietetic Association.
While there’s an estimated 1.7 million vegans nationwide, 97 million people consider themselves “health-conscious” and strive to eat at least three meatless meals per week, according to the Vegetarian Resource Group, publisher of the Vegetarian Journal in Baltimore.
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