Animal Ingredients?!
*Meat
*Rennet
*Suet
*Gelatin
*Lard
What else do I need to avoid?
Answers: I am a lacto-ovo vegetarian and trying to avoid all animal ingredients, but I still use dairy and eggs that are safe. So far, I don't use or eat...
*Meat
*Rennet
*Suet
*Gelatin
*Lard
What else do I need to avoid?
maybe check out the vegetarian society "stumbing blocks" page.
http://www.vegsoc.org/info/stumbling.htm...
This goes through lots of ingredients and products that are likely to contain slaughter by-products
Its a pretty big list but you soon get used to it. You need to know about E numbers as well, some are of animal origin.
To be sure, you should only eat processed foods that have "suitable for vegetarians " written on the label.
carmine (it's like crushed red beetles or something...used in makeup and many red candies and foods)
beef stock/chicken stock
That's all I can think of.
vegan is when you dont eat anything that comes from an animal. including
eggs
cheese
milk
some butter
**check labels to make sure canned foods dont contain gelatin, alot of them do!!
Watch out when you buy soup from restaurants or cafes. They tend to use chicken stock. ASK before you order. And some chinese restaurant steam their veggies with chicken stock. I can never go back to chinese restaurant.
glycerin:
this is a fat, it can either be animal fat or vegetable fat, i order to find out which one it is you have to call the company who manufactures the product.
it can be found in most gum
some soap
and some toothpaste
(colgate does not contain animal glycerin though)
(crest does)
-hope i helped :)
Heres one: Mono and diglycerides
These are usually in processed food (some breads, cake mixes, etc). The thing is that the source of these are ambiguous and MAY come from animals. I try hard to avoid them when I can.
L cysteine.
I see cysteine a lot in the fresh baked bread at the grocery store, but its in a lot of stuff. The majority comes from the hydrolysis of human hair, but can also come from pig hair or feathers. I tend to avoid this because even if you are okay with eating human hair (since humans might be consenting to it), it is usually produced in China, and due to their shoddy labor laws, I am suspicious of the circumstances in which they get the hair.
Here is a huge list for more things. Don't get discouraged. Try to remember all you can and if you mess up, don't be too hard on yourself!
http://www.happycow.net/health-animal-in...
my favorite list of animal ingredients is on this website:
http://www.thirty5.org/ipod/
you can put this list on an mp3 player and take it with you when you go shopping. theyre listed in an index, which makes it a lot easier to find any ingredient youre unsure of. i was never able to remember them all. hope this helps!
Food colorings.
Many of them are from animals.
*Isinglass used in most wines,some liquor and most foreign beer.
*I think its spelled cocheal-its a red dye from a beetle used in most red dyes
*tallow or tallowate in most bar soaps
i can't think of anything else right now but some waxes used on non-organic fruit such as apples,pears,zucchini use animal products so peel or eat organic!