So are Amy's products not vegan?!
Answers: I just bought her pizza made with soy cheese. That is considered vegan right? and the burritos with beans and rice? I'm confused because I thought they were but i am hearing they are not!?
If it uses any organic produce, it is NOT vegan. Organic produce is grown using rendered animal parts and manure as fertilizers. The other produce does not use animal parts or manure, only chemicals. Choosing organic produce supports the meat industry who sells the animal carcasses to the rendering plants and sells the manure.
http://www.api4animals.org/articles?p=37...
Some are, some aren't. The products should be marked as to whether or not they are vegan.
Soy cheese is vegan.
Read the ingrediants looking for anything that contains milk or eggs.
Then its not.
I do not know, because I have no clue what Amy products are.
Usually looking for vegan food, it says vegan friendly.
http://www.amys.com/
The majority of Amy's food products are aimed at vegetarians and vegans, a small but determined focus is also given to people on kosher diets, as well as those who are unable to tolerate ingredients such as wheat gluten, soy, lactose, and maize derivatives. None of their products include actual animal meat (i.e., chicken or beef), though some contain animal-derived elements (such as dairy and honey). They do not, however, use eggs in any of their products.
Some are vegan, some are only vegetarian. On the vegan products, it will say that it is vegan (or "non-dairy" I think) on the front of the package somewhere. Beware of soy cheese. A lot of times it is NOT vegan because it contains casein, which is derived from milk.
My favorite are the veggie and tofu enchiladas. Definitely vegan and delicious.
The ones that ARE vegan will specifically state it in parenthesis in the "Ingredients" section. Like this: (VEGAN)
If it doesn't have that, then it's not! :)
Right before the ingredients list on the back of Amy's frozen dinner boxes, they will have a parentheses with the word vegan if they ARE vegan. Amy's is so strict about throwing the word vegan around that their veggie loaf TV dinner isn't labeled vegan because it has a small amount of honey in it, so you can trust the label.
From what I have seen, Amy's soy cheese products, like their soy cheese and macaroni dinner, still have a milk protein in them and are NOT vegan.
Just look for the word vegan in parentheses if you want to buy exclusively vegan Amy's products.
Some are vegan, some are vegetarian. You just have to read the labels. I believe her vegan products are specifically labeled vegan, but if not, just check the ingredients. Some soy cheeses have whey in them, but since she uses real cheese in vegetarian dishes, I'd assume there'd be no point in her using soy cheese unless it was to make a vegan dish.