NEW Vegetarian .. foods with hidden animal products?!
NEW Vegetarian .. foods with hidden animal products?
do viactiv chocolate multi vitamins have any animal products in them???. i looked at they website it said it had soy in it but there were also other large and confusing words i didnt understand that could be animal products ... im new at vegetarianism .. and i havea friend who claimes to be hard core vegetarian but she still eats poptarts and gummies wich contain animal products .. also what are some hidden foods that contain meat
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also .. can i eat ketshup and mustard and mayo
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2 weeks ago
also .. can i eat ketshup and mustard and mayo
When I first became vegetarian I found this list on PETA:
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 ...?
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PETA
grapefruit juice has bugs and skittles, starburst, and valentine hearts have gelatin.
Most products, regardless of ingredient content will put VEGETARIAN, KOSHER, or VEGAN on them if they are really VEGETARIAN, KOSHER, or VEGAN...just because a product doesn't seem to have any animal products, doesn't mean it is VEGETARIAN, KOSHER, or VEGAN.
That's a really great question you're asking :)
Becoming a vegetarian is REALLY confusing, because silly manufacturers manage to slip animal products into the weirdest things. (For instance, until a few years ago, they used to Wheat Thins with beef tallow?! I'm 99% sure they're veggie now.) This is a REALLY useful list:
http://www.dfwnetmall.com/veg/hiddenanim...
It helped me a lot when I became a vegetarian. I'd say, however, gelatin is your biggest issue; it gets put into a lot of random foods. You're right about poptarts and gummies--those certainly do have gelatin in them. Most fresh mozzarella cheese isn't vegetarian, also--it's made with animal enzymes. Whole Foods does sell it made with vegetable enzyes, though...
Those vitamins you're taking are vegetarian, though they're really not too good for you... they're most high fructose corn syrup. Some vegetarians aren't as strict about gelatin, and other animal products as long as they can't "see" it--I was that way when I first became one, but I eat mostly organic now :)
I hope this helps. Good luck to a new vegetarian.
P.S. Ketchup and mustard and such are fine. Just watch out for Worcestershire sauce.
YOU ARE A VEGETARIAN NOT A VEGAN! there's a difference. PLENTY of food have animal ingredients in them, it's not a secret. they just use technical names for all of the animal ingredients, they're not going to list them as "animal bones, etc.) if you read the ingredients of some type of food and do a research online there's a chance it's not vegan.
if you want to eliminate ALL animal ingredients then you should shift over to veganism.
chocolate is not vegan because it's obviously made from milk which comes from cows which are animals.
mayo is not vegan yes it contains animal ingredients. so do gummies and poptars.. gelatin is in gummies and that comes from animal bones.
Thank you to pretzellogic91 for the great list ! :)