Another question for vegans... for the 1000th time?!
Another question for vegans... for the 1000th time?
Are there any ingredients I should look out for in the following foods (or anything that should be brought to my attention, like the way it's prepared):
granola bars
cereal
chinese food (Veg Fried Rice or Veg Spring Rolls)
canned soup
pie
cookies
soft pretzels
I know it sounds stupid but I've been wondering about those particular foods. Foods that I wouldn't expect any animal bi-products or dairy products in.
Answers:
This list is a good starting point to help you understand what fine print to look for on ingredient labels.
http://www.ivu.org/faq/index.html...
granola bars: honey, bone char sugar, gelatin, glycerides, milk, egg (for starters)
cereal: same as above
chinese food: at a restaurant forget it! (unless you're at a specifically vegan one). from a grocery? milk,egg, fish, etc. (fried items are usually fried alongside meat products)
canned soup: milk, egg, enzymes. Usually made on lines that also make meat based soups (and the meat is raw until they pasteurize the soup!).
pie, cookies, pretzels: animal fats, enzymes, glycerides, DATEM (been turning up in *everything* lately!), milk, egg, L-cysteine.
Something else that you should consider is that most commercial 'clear' juices use animal enzymes in a processing step! By law they don't have to list these since they get 'filtered' out in the final clarification stage (like bone char sugar).
Source(s):
Vegetarians do not eat fish. A fish eater is a Piscivore. Spread the correct word!
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/piscivo...
You should always be careful to make sure stuff doesn't have gelatin. They cook that into the weirdest things.
anything with whey (a bi-product of milk), geletin, casein (milk protein), lactose. There are too many to list!
I want to give you the same advice all people with "Allergies" face...
Always read your labels even if it's a product you've used before.
Though you are not looking at a allergen the concept is the same something you need to avoid.
Read some recipes for foods too.. like the Veg fried rice, it probally has egg in it, etc.
Go to Planet Organic Market web site and ask the question because they specialize in vegan foods.
Remember you will have to start with organic foods to know exactly what is in the food.
1. Sometimes granola bars contain honey - and usually they contain white sugar.
2. Look out for dairy in the ingredients and again with the sugar.
3. Spring Rolls and Fried rice may be cooked in animal fats and fried rice is almost always prepared with egg.
4. Look out for broth/animal derived seasoning.
5. Dairy. Sugar.
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7. Dairy and eggs.