Blog Posts
Is SPROSS history?!?
Hey everybody. We are back with a little update. We hope you are all doing well during these crazy times. With COVID19, the west coast on fire, political disasters, hurricane season and so many other things, it’s not easy to stay positive sometimes. We get that. In German we like to call it WELTSCHMERZ. But […]
Our Vegan Journey (so far)
Hey, we are back with a new blog post. It has been a while and since our podcast is our main hobby now, we kind left out the blog a little bit. But we will try to deliver you more content in the coming months. We are vegan now a little over two years (starting […]
Reusable Water Bottles
Which Type is Best? + Bonus ‼ Promo Code ‼ Hello Sprossians! We hope that wherever you are in the world, that you are getting through this time no matter what your situation may be. Whether you are working, not working, lost your job, are home with family, live alone, whatever your situation is, we […]
Fast Fashion
inexpensive clothing produced rapidly by mass-market retailers in response to the latest trends. You are sitting at home, and your phone rings. A friend is calling to ask you to come shopping with them. You have no plans, so you say yes and you two meet up at the local mall or shopping center. You […]
Why Pandemics Will Happen More Often and Why Biodiversity is so Important
Biodiversity: The variety of plant and animal life in the world or in a particular habitat, a high level of which is usually considered to be important and desirable. We are in a new normal right now. The whole world is standing still and is waiting for this whole thing to blow over. When and […]
Which Plant-based Milk is the Best?
In this blog post we are comparing plant-based milk types and how they hold up compared to a regular milk. We are going into detail and comparing nutritional facts and environmental impacts – it’s pretty interesting what we’ve found out. Nutritional Comparison of Milks %/cup Calories Carbs Sugar Protein Fat/Sat. Vit D Calcium Potassium Cow’s […]
The perks of being vegan
We are back with a new blogpost and this time we are going to just summarize some of the positive aspects of living a vegan life or choosing a plant-based life style – vegan perks for you. We think it is important to remind people, that we don’t need to kill and eat animals in […]
Go Vegan! : An Easy Transition Into Veganism
So, you’re interested in the vegan lifestyle or the plant based diet but you aren’t sure where to start? Maybe you are thinking that you can’t possibly give up milk, cheese, yogurt, or meat? Maybe you feel really overwhelmed by the whole idea even though you want to do something good for yourself, for the […]
Our First Year Vegan
Happy New Year Sprossians! Sorry for the long break in our blog posts, it’s been a pretty busy and crazy couple of months. However, for 2020, we have a plan that we will be posting a new blog post every other week, always on Fridays! So you can look forward to having some new, and […]
Animal Abuse – What You May Not Know
Every 60 seconds, an animal gets abused. When we think of animal abuse, what are the first things that come to mind? I would be willing to bet that most people instantly think of examples such as the following: Physical abuse against house pets (specifically dogs and cats) Dogs being left outside in the cold […]
Dairy and Why We Don’t Need It
A couple of weeks ago, I had an interesting conversation with my mother. As a vegetarian, she understands some aspects of our way of life, being vegan. During the conversation, we came to talk about milk and dairy products. She did not know (although as a child she grew up at a farm with cows, […]
Why We Are Vegan
The question of why we ultimately went vegan might be interesting for some people, since there are a lot of reasons to choose this lifestyle. But let’s start from the beginning. I (Wolfgang) lived in a vegetarian household since basically 2003. My mom cut out meat pretty early because of how the animals get treated. […]
Single-Use Plastic and How To Reduce It
We are back. We took some time off and didn’t post to enjoy summer and life outside of the digital world. But we are back, and we have some interesting new topics we want to write about here on Spross. As you know, we are always trying to give you some interesting and broad insights […]
Vegan Egg Substitutes
Hello Sprossians! We get a lot of questions about what to use in place of eggs in a vegan diet, especially when it comes to sweets! Some people can’t imagine not being able to eat cakes, brownies, muffins, pancakes, you name it. However, it is a lot easier than most people think! Since our last […]
The Infamous Egg Problem
If you are vegan and you don’t eat eggs, you probably have multiple reasons for that. However, a lot of omnivores would argue that a chicken lays the egg and it doesn’t get killed if you eat the egg. Therefore, you would simply waste food, right? Well unfortunately, it’s not that easy. Yes, there are […]
7 Day Vegan Challenge (With Recipes)
When we talk to people about veganism and why we do it or what our motivation is, we always tell them about the environmental, health and animal-rights reasons. The first thing we hear most of the time is, “I could never do that.” By saying that, you are convincing yourself that you could never do […]
Positivity versus Climate crisis
When we are look at recent news, Facebook posts or twitter feeds, it’s hard to neglect all the catastrophic news, forecasts and predictions concerning our planet and the ongoing climate crisis. Everywhere you can read what’s going to happen if we don’t act now, that we only have 12 years left to change things if […]
Who is Spross?
Happy Sunday, everyone! We wanted to switch it up just a little bit and write a short post about who the two of us are and not only why we started Spross, but also a little bit about our personal lives leading up to this point 🙂 Please remember, if you want to be a […]
Palm oil and coconut oil – myth or truth?
We try to keep things fresh and since we know a lot of smart and interesting people, we present you here our first guest blog post. We hope you like it and if you want to write a blog post for us, please feel free to contact us. There are hardly any oils that are […]
How Our Everyday Products Are Harming Our Health
Happy Monday! Spross, here, coming at you with our first official Code Check post. What’s Code Check? You can check out our introduction blog to this amazing app here: Click Here To Read : We Are What We Eat In short, Wolfgang and I started getting curious about what is really in the products that we […]