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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
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Any decent photographer knows how to do lighting, idiot. He would have an article about him if he was a fraud. Quit bitching.
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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.
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It tastes fake, hahahah. These photos were clearly photoshopped.
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Personally, I'm not keen on eating my fruit frozen no matter how pretty it may look.
I guess the fruits are on top of jelly, so they look like they are kind of floating.
So synical, people think everything is photoshoped an try to find flaws in others achievements
Dark chocolate like Lindt is vegan. No dairy or milk. There are also fairtrade chocolates & cacao is also used in chocolate creations. Nom!
These are definitely, and hilariously, photoshopped hahaha but then, most instagram stars are.
the berries i can imagine taking a bite is like cheese cake texture mmmmmm
Food art.. and beautiful to look at. To those who say it's photoshopped, so what? I'm sure most magazine pics are these days. I say well done to a talented 16 year old. I hope they don't let jealous idiots put them off what they're doing because they're bloody good at it.
I thought vegans don't eat chocolate* sorry I messed up and I saw the comment with the "vegan chocolate" so no need to answer :)
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This makes my mouth water and yes the passion fruit and strawberries are definitely photoshopped
To me it looks like the berries are frozen, I've never seen blueberries that color...no raspberries or blackberries.... It DOES look a little strange........Yes, and now I see what you guys are saying, the strawberries have no shadow, especially on the (facing you) lower right hand corner of the slice of pie. Like that berry is floating there......
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
OK, maybe it is explained somewhere, but why on earth do blueberries and blackberries look bleached? :/
"What's that dad-bern stuff there on the bottom?", the old lady at the back of the internet asked.
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.
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
agreed! the colours are unnatural, everything has this frosty effect, like the food is taken straight from the freezer...
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"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 ;)
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What happens when the vegan level goes over 9,000?
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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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It looks beautiful but to me it doesn't look quite right because it's all a bit too perfect. I get that more and more these days. Good shots though.
They look really nice. I bet at first they also taste ok. then after the fourth week of vegan chocolate and the same 4 fruit, you probably crave something a bit less pretty and more substantial.
the heavy editing made it look all fake, no matter if it was or wasnt. ANy pictures or videos of the guy ACTUALLY making them?
Oy! So many frozen berries. Very pretty. Now give me bacon, eggs and toast, please.
I have to agree, photoshop skills are poor, and it is a shame everybody falls for it.
Looks like bored panda is dumb panda or worse a fraud panda to put out a lie like this
"Stuns the world"? Seriously? With all that bad Photoshop skills?
What I find really stunning is how people keep referring to the author as "she" even though it is very clearly written it's made by a boy. Guys cook too. Even if this one just pretends to, as I agree that these are heavily edited.
Veganism really IS dirt and leaves, with a little photoshop on top. Yep, this is p
I see its photoshop but he's 16 and he knows how to use it and he clearly loves food and trying to show what can he do using only vegan products why so much hate tho .. I like these photos they look aesthetic af .
Because he's trying to pass it off as real food. He is intentenionally not dispelling his Instagram followers of this, either. In short, it's outright fraud because these aren't vegan - they don't exist.
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Has anybody already mentioned that he might have used photoshop? (and, more seriously, for me it doesn't matter if he did. Still awesome pictures)
Love love love your food and everything looks delicious! Your editing is also absolutely on point! Keep up the excellent and delicious work Jose xxxx
While I'll commend him on his growing photoshop talent, the person who made the article didn't do a thorough job at screening these 'creations', a few are true recipes but made by someone else: ,https://imgrum.me/media/BXpNhCCFhfk
Gosh...I'm super hungry and I'm not going to eat anything cause I wanna lose weight, now I see these.............
Not to be that guy, but if you're hungry, you should eat....starving yourself won't help. But good luck!
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It seems like every other comment here is about the photoshop on these items, and I'm not sure why? Clearly he isn't claiming they aren't edited-- they're meant to look beautiful, which they totally do. It's not like his use of frosty spray and photoshop is going to give other blueberries and yogurt self esteem issues.
I don’t understand why there has to be so much negativity. So what if it is photoshopped it’s still real food that looks amazing. And done by someone extremely talented.. why don’t we try a lift each other up once in awhile instead of picking out the things that we see wrong.
t's 11pm and every time l come back to the next page it makes me want to get up and raid the fridge..chuckle
These look amazing. Not technically vegan, but beautiful nonetheless.
I know it is photoshopped. And how can 16yo buy a vegan food? It is expensive in my country.
So, we can agree they're all photoshopped, but are there vegan recipes that go along with these photoshopped creations? Or are they vegan because they are literally entirely digital creations?
The guy is trying to pass these off as real vegan food. There are no recipes because he never made them. Lots of people on Instagram ask for the recipes, but he is strangely quiet.
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They looked good but it's unnatural... I wouldn't add food coloring to my food just for the sake of aesthetic
This would be really cool if it weren't obviously faked. Apparently some of the photos are just straight-up stolen, too! I saw something about one of the only legitimate ones being from a Finnish cookbook, I think... If they were real I would have wanted recipes. Though I'm sure I could find recipes for real ones somewhere anyway. I'd suggest fact-checking your articles before you share them, BP. You're going to get yourselves into trouble posting things like this.
I don't get if his intent is to broadcast his cooking skills, his photographic/Photoshop skills or simply is lying to become insta-famous/have a laugh on us
In the first picture, the strawberries look fake on top. Like others, this does seem phptoshopped. Not hard to tell. Sadly. If it is real, where are the steps to do these deserts? We people need to end people who try and trick others for popularity.
Those are not the hands of a 16 year old. Notice all the wrinkles. Just someone who needed to lie about their age to garner extra attention...
Who is dumb enough to believe those wrinkled hands belong to a 16 yr old? The food looks amazing. No need to lie on top of that for attention...
All photo's show that vegans die without frozen berries...it's ALL they eat apparently. Frozen fruit, liquid food and blue food colloring.
Aren't most people's pictures filtered, faded, veiled, photoshopped and cropped too?
I bet all the money I have that if I see some of this in real life, it is going to look like our normal dyed unicorn oatmeal and nothing of the frosty fruits (I mean seriously?!?!)
Instead of criticising for doctoring photos, people should be congratulating the photographer for his fantastic eye, Photoshop skills, use of colour and lush aesthetic <3
The rest of it is true but his photoshop skills suck, did you SEE the strawberries on the first one? However, his use of colour is absolutely fantastic, following the pastel trend with complimentary colours.
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I think it is supposed to be aesthetically pleasing so complaining wont make it less beautiful or desirable. I love fruits and berries so now i want it so badly >:(
while all of these are very pretty, i feel there would be so much sugar in these you would be better off drinking a coke. just looking at these makes my stomach hurt from the thought of all the sugar.
Very nice would be a walk up start for a job working for a trendy food magazine
Society: Ugh, Millennials think they're so special. Me: I can spot a photoshopped image and a fake story through reasonable deduction skills, software knowledge, and fact checking because I grew up on the internet and know what to take with a grain of salt, how about yourself? Society: ... Millennials are noncommittal! Me : ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So if you post pictures of something, that's the only thing you like? You must be stupid.
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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 ;)
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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... It looks beautiful but to me it doesn't look quite right because it's all a bit too perfect. I get that more and more these days. Good shots though.
They look really nice. I bet at first they also taste ok. then after the fourth week of vegan chocolate and the same 4 fruit, you probably crave something a bit less pretty and more substantial.
the heavy editing made it look all fake, no matter if it was or wasnt. ANy pictures or videos of the guy ACTUALLY making them?
Oy! So many frozen berries. Very pretty. Now give me bacon, eggs and toast, please.
I have to agree, photoshop skills are poor, and it is a shame everybody falls for it.
Looks like bored panda is dumb panda or worse a fraud panda to put out a lie like this
"Stuns the world"? Seriously? With all that bad Photoshop skills?
What I find really stunning is how people keep referring to the author as "she" even though it is very clearly written it's made by a boy. Guys cook too. Even if this one just pretends to, as I agree that these are heavily edited.
Veganism really IS dirt and leaves, with a little photoshop on top. Yep, this is p
I see its photoshop but he's 16 and he knows how to use it and he clearly loves food and trying to show what can he do using only vegan products why so much hate tho .. I like these photos they look aesthetic af .
Because he's trying to pass it off as real food. He is intentenionally not dispelling his Instagram followers of this, either. In short, it's outright fraud because these aren't vegan - they don't exist.
Load More Replies... Has anybody already mentioned that he might have used photoshop? (and, more seriously, for me it doesn't matter if he did. Still awesome pictures)
Love love love your food and everything looks delicious! Your editing is also absolutely on point! Keep up the excellent and delicious work Jose xxxx
While I'll commend him on his growing photoshop talent, the person who made the article didn't do a thorough job at screening these 'creations', a few are true recipes but made by someone else: ,https://imgrum.me/media/BXpNhCCFhfk
Gosh...I'm super hungry and I'm not going to eat anything cause I wanna lose weight, now I see these.............
Not to be that guy, but if you're hungry, you should eat....starving yourself won't help. But good luck!
Load More Replies... It seems like every other comment here is about the photoshop on these items, and I'm not sure why? Clearly he isn't claiming they aren't edited-- they're meant to look beautiful, which they totally do. It's not like his use of frosty spray and photoshop is going to give other blueberries and yogurt self esteem issues.
I don’t understand why there has to be so much negativity. So what if it is photoshopped it’s still real food that looks amazing. And done by someone extremely talented.. why don’t we try a lift each other up once in awhile instead of picking out the things that we see wrong.
t's 11pm and every time l come back to the next page it makes me want to get up and raid the fridge..chuckle
These look amazing. Not technically vegan, but beautiful nonetheless.
I know it is photoshopped. And how can 16yo buy a vegan food? It is expensive in my country.
So, we can agree they're all photoshopped, but are there vegan recipes that go along with these photoshopped creations? Or are they vegan because they are literally entirely digital creations?
The guy is trying to pass these off as real vegan food. There are no recipes because he never made them. Lots of people on Instagram ask for the recipes, but he is strangely quiet.
Load More Replies... They looked good but it's unnatural... I wouldn't add food coloring to my food just for the sake of aesthetic
This would be really cool if it weren't obviously faked. Apparently some of the photos are just straight-up stolen, too! I saw something about one of the only legitimate ones being from a Finnish cookbook, I think... If they were real I would have wanted recipes. Though I'm sure I could find recipes for real ones somewhere anyway. I'd suggest fact-checking your articles before you share them, BP. You're going to get yourselves into trouble posting things like this.
I don't get if his intent is to broadcast his cooking skills, his photographic/Photoshop skills or simply is lying to become insta-famous/have a laugh on us
In the first picture, the strawberries look fake on top. Like others, this does seem phptoshopped. Not hard to tell. Sadly. If it is real, where are the steps to do these deserts? We people need to end people who try and trick others for popularity.
Those are not the hands of a 16 year old. Notice all the wrinkles. Just someone who needed to lie about their age to garner extra attention...
Who is dumb enough to believe those wrinkled hands belong to a 16 yr old? The food looks amazing. No need to lie on top of that for attention...
All photo's show that vegans die without frozen berries...it's ALL they eat apparently. Frozen fruit, liquid food and blue food colloring.
Aren't most people's pictures filtered, faded, veiled, photoshopped and cropped too?
I bet all the money I have that if I see some of this in real life, it is going to look like our normal dyed unicorn oatmeal and nothing of the frosty fruits (I mean seriously?!?!)
Instead of criticising for doctoring photos, people should be congratulating the photographer for his fantastic eye, Photoshop skills, use of colour and lush aesthetic <3
The rest of it is true but his photoshop skills suck, did you SEE the strawberries on the first one? However, his use of colour is absolutely fantastic, following the pastel trend with complimentary colours.
Load More Replies... I think it is supposed to be aesthetically pleasing so complaining wont make it less beautiful or desirable. I love fruits and berries so now i want it so badly >:(
while all of these are very pretty, i feel there would be so much sugar in these you would be better off drinking a coke. just looking at these makes my stomach hurt from the thought of all the sugar.
Very nice would be a walk up start for a job working for a trendy food magazine
Society: Ugh, Millennials think they're so special. Me: I can spot a photoshopped image and a fake story through reasonable deduction skills, software knowledge, and fact checking because I grew up on the internet and know what to take with a grain of salt, how about yourself? Society: ... Millennials are noncommittal! Me : ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So if you post pictures of something, that's the only thing you like? You must be stupid.
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