Are mono&diglycerides (?) considered slaughter byproducts?!
Are mono&diglycerides (?) considered slaughter byproducts?
I don't eat them... and I'm not about to, but I have seen many answers about how ice cream and donuts, bread etc. are considered vegetarian. They contain mon&di's, which I thought meant "animal fat," and thusly meant that they were created from dead animals.
I certainly wouldn't give a vegetarian crap about eating them, I was just curious.
It is just that once I found out they were an obscure form of meat I quit eating products that contained them, and I am now curious as to whether they are considered "vegetarian."
The Vegetarian Society doesn't seem to mention the topic.
Thanks.
:)
Answers:
I think they just don't mention stuff like that for vegetarians because they don't want to make it seem so strict.Milk can be considered non-veg since it almost always come fortified with vitamin D-3,and vitamin D-3 is always derived from pig,sheep,or cow skin.I never ate that because IO knew glycerine was not vegetarian,and I thought mono-di-glycerides were the same as glycerine.I guess mono glycerides are a small chain of fatty acids or whatever,I think they don't include it because it only makes up less than 2% of the final product or sometimes it may or may not contain it.
mono diglycerides r meat??!!
lol i always check the ingredients on things b4 i eat them because I'm a vegetarian but I've eaten stuff with mono diglycerides in it...
i just looked it up...a site said they're "nothing more than hydrogenated oils"
i think that means its ok...
I always thought that they "may" or "may not" be vegetarian...
And since most ingredient lists on foods don't specify whether or not they come from animal sources... I would think that most vegetarians and vegans would wanna be safe and just stay away.
Because it is listed on Peta's animal ingredient list and this other animal ingredient list (vegan peace) :
http://www.peta.com/mc/factsheet_display...
http://www.veganpeace.com/ingredients/in...
So I would not consider them vegetarian, unless specified on the ingredient list that they came from non- meat sources :]