What exactly is gelatin and do vegetarians eat it?!
Vegetarians use agar agar, a seaweed product, to make "gelatinous" foods. For some uses, other thickeners are more appropriate, like cornstarch.
Answers: It's a substance made from collagen proteins. You obtain it by boiling down skins and bones from animals, so no, vegetarians don't eat it.
Vegetarians use agar agar, a seaweed product, to make "gelatinous" foods. For some uses, other thickeners are more appropriate, like cornstarch.
Not knowingly. It's from animal bones.
Gelatin is a translucent, colorless, brittle, nearly tasteless solid substance, extracted from the collagen inside animals' connective tissue. Vegetarians usually avoid gelatin and use other emulsifiers instead, such as agar, carrageen, pectin, or konnyaku.
Gelatin (US spelling) or gelatine (British spelling) (used to make Jell-o and other desserts) is made from the boiled bones, skins and tendons of animals. An alternative substance is called Agar-Agar, which is derived from seaweed. Another is made from the root of the Kuzu. Agar-Agar is sold in noodle-like strands, in powdered form, or in long blocks, and is usually white-ish in color.
You might want to sit down for this. Gelatin is a tasteless, odorless, almost colorless mixture of proteins that dissolves in hot water, but becomes a jelly when cooled, holding the water in a rubbery suspension. It is used in the preparation of many different foods — the basis for Jell-o, for instance, but also to dress up aspics and patés, and to give structure to creamy desserts, such as some mousses, cheesecakes, and commercial ice cream. OK, perhaps you didn't need to sit down for that. But where does gelatin come from?
It is derived from collagen found in the bones, cartilage, connective tissue, and skin of animals, traditionally cows. Most commercially produced gelatin nowadays is produced from pig skin. If you have ever roasted a chicken or ham, you made your own gelatin. The juices in the bottom of the pan contain gelatin rendered from the collagen, and if you put the roasting pan in the refrigerator, you'll find some of the juice setting into a gel.
Every grocery store sells animal-based gelatin (the leading brand in this country is Knox, in orange and white boxes).
There's all kinds of products that have a gelatinous substance that can be used in cooking..
Agar Agar , Konnyaku , some seaweeds , fruit pectine....
But traditional gelatin is usually made from bones , once the chalk in a bone is gone , the remaining product is gelatin , they use it for a whole lot of things ranging from sweets , chocolate mousse , icecream , jelly eal , paté , ....
I don't think vegetarians would like to eat traditional gelatin , certainly not vegans.. traditional gelatin can also be made from fish bones. so there is some playroom there..
NO>>>>> its from animal bones.!
No it's from animals like pig or beef. I find some sweets have this in so not vegetarian or vegan.
Gelatin is a thickener made by rendering animal bones, skins and connective tissue. True vegetarians do not eat it or any other slaughter by-product (why would you choose not to eat meat, but go ahead and eat the bones from the same dead animal?)
Its made from bones, tendons, tissue etc.
No, vegetarians do not eat it.
Gelatine is part of the profit from a carcass, its one of the reasons for killing the cow just the same as beef or leather.
If you are veggie for animal welfare or ethical reasons, you would not eat anything with gelatine in it.
Yuo get used to spotting it in ingredients lists so it doesn't take too long to learn to excude it.
Little Miss Cheeky -
"Im not quite sure what it is but it comes from animals. some vegetarians eat it, others dont. It is mostly in jelly, marshmallows and sweets.
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Im a vegetarian - I eat it."
Then you are not a vegetarian.
It's a gelling agent you get from boiling down bones and skin of animals. It's used to gel things, i.e. jello, some dairy products, most jelly/gummy candies, conventional marshmallows, etc. Many medicines that come in capsules are made from gelatin capsules. Some are what they call vcaps, and those are made with plant cellulose.
No, it is not vegetarian.
Kosher gelatin is made with fish. Fish isn't vegetarian, either.
it's boiled skin and bones of animals. i don't knowingly eat it but it's in so many products i'm sure some slips in. disturbing.
Im not quite sure what it is but it comes from animals. some vegetarians eat it, others dont. It is mostly in jelly, marshmallows and sweets.
its jelly from meat and its another great product that veggies miss out on. Particularly nice is dripping from roasting pork you get the "gravy" at the bottom dark brown and full of lovely flavour