Vegan 16-Year-Old Stuns The World With His Stunning Desserts And Breakfasts, Becomes Instagram Star
If you're one of those people who think that vegan foods are all leaves and dirt, get ready to be amazed. A 16-year-old Instagrammer named Jose is banishing 'boring food' by crafting colorful, vibrant, and completely vegan breakfasts and sweets that even dedicated carnivores are drooling over.
The teen tries out a variety of trendy dishes, such as smoothie bowls and raw cheesecakes, with shimmering frozen fruit acting as both the main ingredient and the 'crown of jewels' in each vegan meal. Creamy, fresh textures abound, making each edible arrangement seem more satisfying than the last. The most appealing part of Jose's food artworks, however, is the sheer amount of color he manages to pack into each one.
Well, it looks like employing a vegan diet might not be so bad after all! We promise you'll be hungry after scrolling down and seeing these all-natural edible artworks for yourself - just be sure to vote for the ones you'll try your own hand at making.
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I'm just gonna post this once here and move on, because I can't even. 1) ALL PROFESSIONALLY-PHOTOGRAPHED FOOD IS PHOTOSHOPPED. Every photo you've ever seen. Online. In a magazine. In cookbooks. All of them. (And guess what – it's not just food photography.) Go check out his IG; he readily admits to using Photoshop (as all real photographers will) and explains why. 2) Yes, some of the things he posts are not his own creations. He credits the creator when they are not. He even seems to have some cross-promotion relationships going, so in many of these cases, he may have been ASKED TO POST something to promote someone else for THEIR benefit. 3) It took me all of 9 minutes with Google, TinEye, and Instagram to figure these things out. Most of you have at least that much Internet knowledge one assumes? Why not vet something like this for yourself instead of just piling on with a critical comment based on lynch mob mentality? He's 16, for pete's sake.
so you're saying all pro food pics have artificially added elements? retouching is not the same as combining different pics together in PS xD
Load More Replies...Any decent photographer knows how to do lighting, idiot. He would have an article about him if he was a fraud. Quit bitching.
Load More Replies...Fake. Why? All these fruits are readily available. This discredits the whole story, which I believe is fake, too.
I'm starting to believe the story is fake too, since 'anyone can post a story on Bored Panda... as it states on the bottom of each page. He's probably trying to drive more traffic to his instagram page.
Load More Replies...Exactly! The kiwis could be palm leaves, maybe
Load More Replies...I actually LOVE the skin. To me, it is the tastiest part, it's tangy and sweet and I like the hairy texture! LOL I know, it's weird, right? But when I get a kiwi, I only pluck off the ends, and I eat the entire thing! You know how some fruits have very tasty skins? Like apples and plums? Same with the kiwi. About this photo, it's photoshopped too, though it does look nice. Look at the kiwis, the shadows are wrong. And what is with those berries?! Are they frozen to be that color? STRANGE!
Load More Replies...This is photoshop, all be it good most of the work is not real as it's presented.
MEEEEEEEE! I love it unpeeled. The skin has a TON of powerful tangy flavor. I pluck the ends off, wash it, and eat the entire thing. I like the hairs too! It has more flavor than the rest of the fruit, the skin that is. I always thought you were supposed to eat the skin. It has never hurt me, and I'm now 49 and have been eating kiwi fruits like this, skin on, forever. Like an apple's skin, or a plum's skin, it has more tangy and powerful flavor then the rest of the fruit, AND vitamins too.
Load More Replies...I use Kool-Aid's blue raspberry sugar free flavoring, the kind that comes in that tiny little squeeze bottle, to flavor my plain greek yogurt, and it looks just like this. The silver balls are cake decorations, totally edible, used usually on bridal cakes. My German grandparents owned a bakery and we used these a lot on wedding cakes. All that is missing in this bowl is some granola, which I guess was too hard to photoshop. This looks so pretty and appetizing, it's such a shame to be let down knowing it's all fake......... but listen, for those of you who eat plain Greek yogurt, give those little squeeze bottle of kool-aid (or other brands, there are tons of them now) a chance, they make wonderful flavorings for plain yogurt and they are sugar free!
See my long comment in the post with the "cheesecake" slices, Molly. I can guarantee you you've never seen a professionally-shot photo of food that was unretouched.
Load More Replies...They DO look pretty.........And they must be quite small, considering those are bamboo skewers in them. My thought is, why is there not even the tiniest amount of condensation on any of them? None at all! I don'r understand that. Oh wait, I know-- it's because they are PHOTOSHOPPED! LOL! But they still look amazing nonetheless.
Load More Replies...I have never seen berries colored like this before...or am I going crazy?
i would too but given this boy's addiction to photoshop i doubt anyone will.
Load More Replies...How in hell is she touching those blueberries? Have u guys ever tried to touch a frozen blueberry? I'm not saying like these are fake, but I feel like she must have done some photoshopping before posting. Way too smooth for my reality. :D
No I think he (it clearly says a 16 year old boy makes these) blends the frozen bananas, shapes it, places the fruit and then re chills it.
Load More Replies...Smack harder, idiot. I make food like this though not as pretty. Stop eating frozen foods, fat a*s
Load More Replies...All I read in the comments is "Oh my god, he is so much better me, so it must be fake." Of course there is Photoshop involved. At least for color correction. Who cares?
top lighting for the berries...but the stuff in the cup does not look like it is in the cup...two separate photos..lighting is way off
That's what they look like when they're fresh. Try some
Load More Replies...Nope, that's what they look like fresh. Max, all you do is b***h. Could possibly try f*****g off a bit?
Load More Replies...OK, maybe it is explained somewhere, but why on earth do blueberries and blackberries look bleached? :/
Putting fruit and chocolate on pieces of bread is hardly an interesting idea.
If you look properly it's not just fruit an chocolate
Load More Replies...My friend makes not only good looking, but also delicious vegan food. Check out her site, if you want to drool a little bit more: deviliciouslyraw.com
Chocolate is often vegan. Some chocolate has cow milk as a creamer, but cow milk is in no way necessary for chocolate!
It's called milk chocolate... and is present in pretty much every single chocolate confectionery item on the shelf. You have to look for dark chocolate to avoid dairy or a vegan substitute if you want the taste of milk chocolate. Milk chocolate is the most common.
Load More Replies...chocolate is NOT vegan unless he/she used nondairy chocolate
"What's that dad-bern stuff there on the bottom?", the old lady at the back of the internet asked.
What a bunch of picky meanies... beautiful work, photoshopped (as Acknowledged)or not. How about kudos and wow?! I would like some descriptions, though. They look yummy!
I agree...he is 16 for god sake and does a pretty beautiful job!
Load More Replies...Anything I say edible if you BELIEVE 💩🦄❤️👍🌈 *eats chair* I was wrong 😊 *goes to hospital*
Load More Replies...So..like...this person just lives off of fake dairy, fruit, and chocolate?
I know I'm nearly posting at every picture but there is always more evidence that its fake. wtf guys.?!??! gnhmhngvbf...00807f.png
what is going on with the blueberries? theyre too smooth to actually be frozen...
Seriously? I am just in awe of all these Photoshop professionals. …Okay, no I'm not. You might want to zoom in on some other parts of that photo. The lines are EVERYWHERE, not just on the blueberries! If you know as much about photo editing as you seem to want us all to believe, tell me, what does that mean?
Load More Replies...I certainly don't think this image is photoshopped - although a pro may correct me. I see a reflection from one of the pink raspberries on the pie server, and it looks perfect - I don't think that can be copied. If this one 100% isn't photoshopped, it's likely this boy has serious skills and the others aren't either
(as a user of the adobe suite) "Photoshop" is commonly referenced as taking something from one image and adding it to another. Photoshop has many other uses and one common thing that professionals who use it do, is do color corrections where the lighting on one shade can be changed across the entire image. Or made new definitions for the blacks, grays, and whites in an image. (all pixels, even colored ones, have a black white or grey hidden in them.) While fruit condensation out of the freezer does have a whiter color, it's evident to me in the shading quality of the cookies, that the described process above has been done to all the images.
Load More Replies...sorry posted too fast it didnt include picture. look at the one above
Load More Replies...What's up with those blueberries, weird gradient/pattern going through them. Unless some new type of blueberries ;)
They look photoshopped to me. Or just really cool. I think there frozen
Load More Replies...Foodcoloring probably. That's how people who make those unicorn/mermaid toasts do it. The US has very intense food colors.
Load More Replies...The white speckles looks photoshopped to me as I can few on the spoon handle too ....
Can everyone just stfu about everything being photoshopped and enjoy the beauty? Like seriously stop. It's quite annoying, honestly.
I know what you meant, but I pictured a milkshake made of unicorns, and that ruined it for me :(
Load More Replies...Yes! This is a repost but he links to it and the creator has the recipe ~ @xanjuschx.
Load More Replies...FInally something with real blueberries. But ... how in the world do you get them to be in the cake without staining everything blue around them?
Coconut milk, almond milk. There's all kinds of vegan yogurt out there
Load More Replies...I don't know but there are lines everywhere. It might be some type of style or a fail photoshopping
Hey look!... Berries.... Again. Frozen... Again. Liquid food around it... Again. I don't know anayone that likes to eat frozen berries. If you say vegan doesn't need to be boring... These 5 pages of picures just show the opposite.
This is one type of food from one person. There loads of talented vegan chefs doing incredible things with plants, vegetables, fruits, grains, etc. Branch out once in a while from the carcass you ingest. And holy s**t, who would have thought you could put frozen things in liquid!? Ahem, iced beverages...
Load More Replies...photoshop again. why? I bet it looks good enough without the heavy edit
All the frozen fruit looks so artificial. I've never seen such perfectly shaped and uniformly frosted berries. You really can't do that in a regular freezer. They look like they've been frozen in liquid nitrogen. So... where's a kid getting LN2 to play with food? And all those glasses heaped with smoothies don't look like they're melting in the slightest. There's something very fak about all of it.
Tons and tons of fruit, he must have the shits all the time! All the 'food' is just some white goop, food colouring and frozen fruit. Over and over again... ho-hum
I cook vegan food all the time, and I also make the occasional dessert but when it comes to decorations, I'm just out of my league! So I truly admire the imagination and the play with colours I see here :)
Load More Replies...Lemme guess: you zoomed in and saw his compression artifacts again and had a coronary and fell down and landed on your caps lock? You should definitely eat moar berries.
Load More Replies...why? You just halve the banana and then and peanutbutter and fruit :D not that much work me thinks
Load More Replies...Also has no one ever heard of liquid food colouring?! Why assume editing.... food colouring is way easier!!
I don't think blackberries were ever meant to be magenta, red, orange, or yellow
They are raspberries, not blackberries. Blackberries have the core still attached, in raspberries it has to be removed to get them off the plant.
Load More Replies...as a photographer, i haven't seen any of her images (yet) without being photoshoped -and some, badly.
Load More Replies...It's in the post-editing, not the dessert. Whoever edited these images added the texture for some reason.
Load More Replies...You mean the darker edge of the blueberries? Has anyone bothered think maybe the parts touching the liquid have defrosted slightly so that they go back to their normal colour, and the rest remains frozen? Seriously why does everyone assume it's all crazily photoshopped and why do you all care so much!!
It's not real food, vegan or otherwise, that's for sure.
Load More Replies...despite the 'honey dipper' it doesn't look like the consistency or colour of honey. it looks more like caramel to me, which can be made vegan.
I love bread with butter, radish and salt. Tastes much better than sounds.
Load More Replies...No trying to be rude but you can make waffles as a vegan without eggs and milk instead of cow milk you can use almond milk and soy milk and coconut milk or cream and you don't actally need eggs here is a link if you want to check it out some more http://www.spiceupthecurry.com/eggless-waffle-recipe-vegan-waffles/
Load More Replies...All photo's show that vegans die without frozen berries...it's ALL they eat apparently
agreed! the colours are unnatural, everything has this frosty effect, like the food is taken straight from the freezer...
Load More Replies..."Stunning the world"?? Really. Photoshop has been around a long time, and hardly stuns anyone anymore.
Agreed but then when you go and see the followers it's astounding what people will believe in ;)
Load More Replies...What happens when the vegan level goes over 9,000?
Load More Replies...Sorry, but graphic designers cannot be cheated so easily. We have clear - and bad - Photoshop here. =/
Well, it may not be leaves and dirt but I'm sure photoshop is also vegan.
Time to build your own start-up and sell these. While not vegan, I'd definitely buy all of these
I guess he would if they were real, but it's clearly photoshopped xD
Load More Replies...agreed! the colours are unnatural, everything has this frosty effect, like the food is taken straight from the freezer...
Load More Replies..."Stunning the world"?? Really. Photoshop has been around a long time, and hardly stuns anyone anymore.
Agreed but then when you go and see the followers it's astounding what people will believe in ;)
Load More Replies...What happens when the vegan level goes over 9,000?
Load More Replies...Sorry, but graphic designers cannot be cheated so easily. We have clear - and bad - Photoshop here. =/
Well, it may not be leaves and dirt but I'm sure photoshop is also vegan.
Time to build your own start-up and sell these. While not vegan, I'd definitely buy all of these
I guess he would if they were real, but it's clearly photoshopped xD
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