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YouTube- (S)alt: We avoid table salt and various gourmet salts like Himalayan salt, black salt ('kala namak'), rock salt ('sendha namak'), and so on. See Salt & Sodium for details.
- (O)il: We avoid all oils like coconut oil, olive oil, Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO), avocado oil, sesame oil, mustard oil, and so on. No oil at all. See No Oil! for details.
- (S)ugar: We avoid "Added Sugars" or refined sugars of all sorts, including regular white sugar, brown sugar, turbinado sugar, coconut sugar, maple syrup, agave syrup, honey, jaggery ('gud'), and so on. See Sugars & Sweeteners for details.
Can meals without Salt, Oil and Sugar be flavorful? Yeah, absolutely! Check out recipe books and strategies in articles below.
Among the three SOS Extracts (Salt, Oil, Sugar), elimination of salt is the most challenging. Let us understand why.
In recent years, many Whole Food Plant-Based SOS-Free recipe books have emerged, without Salt, Oil and Sugar! All recipes are salt-free (no sea salt, no Himayalan salt, no pink salt, …), without a drop of oil (no coconut oil, no olive, no EVOO, no avocado oil, no oil whatsoever) and without a pinch of sugar! Is it possible to make flavorful meals without SOS? Yes!
Cathy Fisher worked at the McDougall Program in 2006 and TrueNorth Health Center in 2010. She published a cookbook with SOS-Free recipes in 2016.
Well Your World by Dillon Holmes and Reebs (Rebecca) is a popular website and YouTube channel with dozens of SOS-Free recipes!
Cathy Katin-Grazzini is the Food Editor for VEGWORLD Magazine. She published an SOS-Free cookbook in 2022.
National Health Association (established 1948) has published a wonderful set of SOS-Free recipes!
I heard Katie Mae's interview at the 2022 Fruit & Vegetable Power Summit hosted by Drs Rick and Karin Dina. She keenly seeks out good flavors. At the same time, she knows how to enhance flavors the right way (with some understanding of the science underlying flavor and our emotional & physical health).
Ramses Bravo is a chef at True North Health Center. He has published two books with SOS-Free recipes.
Tami Kramer has lots of informative videos at her YouTube channel and website. They shed light on myriad aspects of WFPB SOS-Free recipes.
A list of FaceBook groups, YouTube channels and website for SOS-Free WFPB recipes.
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