Why can't vegetarians eat gelatin?!
Answers: My best friend is a vegetarian and she can't eat gelatin. Why is that? Some people say it's made of horse's hooves, but I don't really believe that. What do you guys think?
gelatin is made from boiling the bones and hooves of animals. Yes, the old story of boiling horses hooves fits in here.
There are vegetable products which will give "gelatin like" results. Agar agar/kanten is used in Asian cooking to make "jellies" of all sorts, and ground flax seed will gel and give "gelatin-like" results in recipes for "opaque" foods, such as mousses and things like pecan pie.
It's made from boiling bones, tendons, skin, and other connective tissues.
Gelatin is made from meat by-products like the bones and skin of pigs, cows and horses.
Look it up.
its made from tendons, skin and bones of cows and horses
It is made out of either horse hooves, or animal bones. Either way, it is an animal product, so veggies can not eat it
Gelatin is made of animal parts, and veg*ns don't eat animal parts.
It has animal hoofs in! Which is disgusting! yet i still eat it =)
Gelatin is made from the liquid inside the spine of a cow or a pig, I think.
Vegetarians don't eat dead animals; gelatin is made from dead animals. It's made by boiling skin, bone marrow and connective tissues, but not of horses. Most gelatin is pork-derived. Kosher gelatin is from fish bones. You don't have to believe your friend or anyone else; you can look it up for yourself.
OK. so there are plenty of accurate responses as to why vegetarians can't eat gelatin. If you are interested, there are a number of vegetarian-appropriate setting agents on the market — including agar-agar (a sea vegetable), arrowroot (a starchy powder), guar gum (anEast Indian seed), Xanthan gum (a corn extract), kudzu (a starchy powder from the plant’s tuber), and certain ground nuts and seeds.
because it is a pork product, from pig hooves.
you can eat agar as a substitute
it is made from the bone marrow of cows, thats what my science teacher told me. I'm pretty sure vegetarians can eat it though, just not vegans. I'm a vegetarian and i eat it..