Chocolate no longer suitable for vegetarians ??!
Chocolate no longer suitable for vegetarians ??
what do u think or don't u care
i mean the bit about insect's being used for the colouring is just eeeuugh
does anybody knw which products have insect colouring in them ???
http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/food...
1 month ago
ketchup ketchup ur joking rght and no more smarties yuck
Answers:
1 month ago
ketchup ketchup ur joking rght and no more smarties yuck
Read the ingredients and look for Cochineal-this is the insect source of the red dye used.
Also Mars bars and other chocolate made by the same company (masterfoods) are not going to be suitable for vegetarians as they are switching to using animal rennet instead of plant rennet.Any dated best before October the 1st or later are not vegetarian.
Cadbury's chocolate will still be vegetarian though.
insect colouring has been used for centuries and was one of the main industries on the Canary Islands.
Cochineal is the name for the colour (red) so just look for that name under ingredients.
Gross
yes one day there think every food is no good
A lot of products have bugs in them just due to the maufacturing product like ketchup and fig newtons. I wouldn't let it bother me. Plus you eat like 8 spiders a year in your sleep.
No I'm not-sorry. Most foods that are manufactured in plants have a certain level of buggy contamination they are allowed to have according to the FDA. Ketchup is fly eggs. Fig Newtons is bees or wasps (can't remember) the get caught in the figs and incorporated into the newton.
Yeah after I learned that I just stopped things about what I was eating....
Red Smarties......... crushed beetle wings
It is not just insect colouring (cochineal) but they are now using animal rennet (boiled down bones) as a thickener in a great number of Nestle's items such as Mars bars and Twixs.
I am not a vegetarian and I like chocolate.
I do care, but I am going to try and forget that I ever answered this question.
Sorry.....:)
I heard on the radio the snickers, mars and twix's are unsuitable for vegetarians.
Unfortunatly i think its the same in alot of products.
My mum ios a veggy and therefor we dont eat any meat at home but i do eat meat when out so it wont affect me too much
if you are a vegetarian I would think that chocolate would be a no no because a large portion of its content is butter....but I could be mistaken.....:)
there was one colour that used to come from a certain beetle. used in things like microwave meals, sauces in jars and generally things that needed a certain colour. not sure if it's used anymore......anyway serves you right for being a veggie! while the rest of us eat as much choccy as we like.....ahhh
I don't think it's the chocolate you have to worry about. The animal products are probably used in the nugat or other ingredients in the candy bars. Thanks for bringing this article to my attention. No more candy bars for me!
Did you know a lot of fruit juices contain shellac , a mucus secretion from a beetle, it is on the fruit skin . I only found this out when I looked at orange & mango juice from co op. it was ok for veggys but not vegan because of this. Co op is very honest with its labelling, not that this has anything to do with sweets , but interesting to know!
They must have done this to add profit to the business and stuff the customer. I have heard this to on radio and think it is disgusting. Check out the vegetarian society for more info.
Plain chocolate does not contain ground up insects - at least not on purpose nor does it contain butter. Cocoa butter is the name for the fat from the cocoa bean and has nothing to do with dairy butter.
Whey powder in some chocolate products may be made using animal rennet.
Chocolate bars with fillings could contain all sorts of things but I think cochineal is quite rare and has been replaced with other dyes.
Cochineal is very rarely used in modern food production. To be on the safe side eat Kosher. There is no cochineal in kosher foods.
the Organic chocolate chips are totally vegan. you can get them at Vons.
I care and am damn annoyed by the capitalist attitude of the manufacturers who have been perfectly happy using non-animal alternatives until now. This doesn't just affect vegetarians but muslims too who avoid non-halal foods. I'm trying to be a vegetarian but will soon find there's nothing I can eat unless I go all green and grow my own stuff.
Oh well needed to go on a diet anyway. But I will miss Maltesers and Minstrels - weep, weep farewell my sweet (pun intended).