Animal Lover ingredients?!
Animal Lover ingredients?
If you are a vegetarian, but not vegan, what are ingredients to avoid if you are an animal lover...besides Gelatin, Red 40, and of course meat? I still use dairy and stuff...except I don't eat anything with those ingredients...like yogurt and pudding.
Answers:
i asked the same question about a week ago iv been a vegetarian since june 5th lol not very long .. but thankfully someone answered my question of ingredients to look out for that contain animal.
Lard―Lard is such a gross word, it almost makes you wonder why they just don't call it what it is: "Fat from hog abdomens."
Pepsin―If the thought of eating lard turns your stomach, stay away from pepsin, a clotting agent from pigs' stomachs, used in some cheeses and vitamins.
Rennet―Certain words just make you cringe, like coagulate, congeal, clot―which is what rennet, an enzyme taken from baby calves' stomachs, is used for in cheese production.
Stearic Acid―It may sound less gross than "lard," but stearic acid, which often rears its ugly head in chocolate and vitamins, comes from a fatty substance taken from slaughtered pigs' stomachs―or from cows, sheep, or dogs and cats euthanized in animal shelters. Still want to chew on that piece of Fido?
Cetyl Palmitate―Check your head if you're using margarine that contains cetyl palmitate, the fancy term for the waxy oil derived from sperm whales' heads or from dolphins. "I can't believe it's not ... oh, wait. It is? Whale head wax?"
Urea―Urea comes from piss and other "bodily fluids." It's used to "brown" baked goods, like pretzels. Um, yeah. And the oven is for ...?
Enzymes...you usually have to call the place to see if they use ANIMAL enzymes or not.
a useful website is govegan.com or you can also go to peta.org for free recipes of vegan diet. good luck!
What is FD & C Red #40 and is it vegan?
FD & C Red #40 is 99% coal tar derivatives. We don't know of any animal products in it. For years a rumor has claimed that it is made of cochineal or carmine, but that is not true.
Its still not ideal for you.. :)
Here is a list of animal ingredients to watch out for:
http://www.vegfamily.com/lists/animal-in...
Natural sources and natural flavoring is the tough one. Unless it says vegetable source next to it Id avoid it altogether.
I love eating animal ingredients. Just today I killed 4 trout and ate them with peppers and onions.
I sometimes I still have problems with this including the "other natural ingredients" and "spices" I'm like what does that include. Yikes!
I am a vegetarian as well, but I am able to eat yogurt, I just read labels like crazy! I've found that alot of organic yogurts do not include gelatin in there ingredients, for what reason I dont know...but I'm glad about that! Yogurt is one of my favorite lunches (with fresh fruit yum!!!) good luck!