What is Jello made out of and what does it have to do with animals?!


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What is Jello made out of and what does it have to do with animals?



Answers: jello is made from gelatin.. its a protein jelly like substance. it comes from the bones of animals like cows, pigs etc.. if you or you have seen your mother boil up a beef stew, if you've ever looked at the liquid after it cools, it gets a brown gelatin coating on the top, Most cooks skim it off.. it looks horrible.. but that is the junk they process to make gelatin out of.. hooves from animals like horses and cows It's made from gelatin and the production of gelatin typically starts with the boiling of cattle bones or pig skins. horse hooves, or at least parts of them (gelatin I believe)

so technically jello isn't vegetarian, at least in my eyes. The key ingredient in Jello or similar products is gelatin. Gelatin is obtained from various animal parts.

See the Gelatin Wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gelatin...

"There is no vegetable source for gelatin."

"Contrary to popular belief, horns and hooves are not commonly used."

"Vegetarians and/or vegans do not eat or use products containing gelatin."
( Quotes from above Wiki.)

And they shouldn't drink refined juices, wine, or beer either since those are clarified with isenglass, a gelatin obtained from fish. I like Jello...
Then I think of where it's from.
The jelly-ness comes from the gelatin which is produced from pig's/cow's/goat's hooves.
Not the bones.
It's made from boiling boiling and boiling the hooves and steaming them until they go really soft and that's when all the jelly comes out.

This is then seperated from the boiled cartilage, flavoured, dried and powered...the rest is history.



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