Are these ingredients vegan?!
here are ingredients to a kroger brand chicken seasoning:
Salt, Monosodium Glutamate, Spices (Including Black Pepper), Paprika, Onion, Dextrose, Hydrogented soybean and cottonseed oil, autolyzed yeast, modified corn starch, torula years, garlic, and natural flavors (including soy)!.
i am a dedicated vegan, but i found this in my mom's kitchen, read the label and saw nothing that sounded like an animal product, and tasted a little!.!.!. then it suddenly dawned on me that some of the unfamiliar names could be animal byproducts!.
could someone please tell me!?Www@FoodAQ@Com
Salt, Monosodium Glutamate, Spices (Including Black Pepper), Paprika, Onion, Dextrose, Hydrogented soybean and cottonseed oil, autolyzed yeast, modified corn starch, torula years, garlic, and natural flavors (including soy)!.
i am a dedicated vegan, but i found this in my mom's kitchen, read the label and saw nothing that sounded like an animal product, and tasted a little!.!.!. then it suddenly dawned on me that some of the unfamiliar names could be animal byproducts!.
could someone please tell me!?Www@FoodAQ@Com
Answers:
Well, for a start "natural flavourings" is often used to include beef, chicken and pork slaughter by-products!. Beef fat is a classic "natural flavouring" used in many foods!. Its often used to replicate roasted chicken flavours so, as this product is called "chicken seasoning" its highly likely the "natural flavouring" includes ground dried beef powder!.
How do you know the other ingredients were not processed with anmal products !? You can only tell by either going with a "suitable for veggies/vegans" label or by asking the manufacturer!. Guesswork doesn't do it really, its amazing how creative some manufacturers get with thier processing!.
I know this because of our veggie business so we're always writing to manufacturers!. Some of the replies amaze!. We've even found tinned tomatoes that were not veggie !!
"dedicated" probably means checking it BEFORE you eat it!.
Label checking is something that you get used and it really doesn't take much extra time to avoid slaughter by-products!.
If in doubt, leave it out!.
A quick look through thier website shows a massive amount of real chicken based products so they are not exactly striving for the veggie/vegan market!.
perhaps you can ask them !?
http://services!.kroger!.com/comments/comm!.!.!.
when you look at the menu thier banqueting service offers it hardly bodes well for veggies, and vegans don't stand a chance:
http://www!.kroger!.com/mykroger/024/Docum!.!.!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
How do you know the other ingredients were not processed with anmal products !? You can only tell by either going with a "suitable for veggies/vegans" label or by asking the manufacturer!. Guesswork doesn't do it really, its amazing how creative some manufacturers get with thier processing!.
I know this because of our veggie business so we're always writing to manufacturers!. Some of the replies amaze!. We've even found tinned tomatoes that were not veggie !!
"dedicated" probably means checking it BEFORE you eat it!.
Label checking is something that you get used and it really doesn't take much extra time to avoid slaughter by-products!.
If in doubt, leave it out!.
A quick look through thier website shows a massive amount of real chicken based products so they are not exactly striving for the veggie/vegan market!.
perhaps you can ask them !?
http://services!.kroger!.com/comments/comm!.!.!.
when you look at the menu thier banqueting service offers it hardly bodes well for veggies, and vegans don't stand a chance:
http://www!.kroger!.com/mykroger/024/Docum!.!.!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I honestly am as confused as you are!. I'd be leery of the very last one, where they list "natural flavors"; sometimes what they list as natural flavors includes animal by product!.
Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) is a flavor enhancer, there's a controversy if its completely safe or not!. (Most research points to it not being healthy to consume!.) MSG is made from starch, corn sugar or molasses from sugar cane or sugar beets!. Dextrose is glucose sugar refined from corn starch!. Silicon dioxide is also not really something you'd want to eat: its a hard, glassy mineral found in such materials as rock, quartz, sand and opal!. They use it as primarily as a flow agent in powdered foods, or to absorb water!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) is a flavor enhancer, there's a controversy if its completely safe or not!. (Most research points to it not being healthy to consume!.) MSG is made from starch, corn sugar or molasses from sugar cane or sugar beets!. Dextrose is glucose sugar refined from corn starch!. Silicon dioxide is also not really something you'd want to eat: its a hard, glassy mineral found in such materials as rock, quartz, sand and opal!. They use it as primarily as a flow agent in powdered foods, or to absorb water!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Robyn, you got it backwards!. Vegans don't eat anything that comes from animals!. Vegetarians don't eat meat, but still consume dairy, eggs, etc!.
MSG is salty, and can give something the flavor of meat, without any meat actually being present!.
Everything sounds ok, except as someone else said, be weary of "natural flavors"!.
I know that for imitation bacon bits, they use artificial flavors, not natural flavor!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
MSG is salty, and can give something the flavor of meat, without any meat actually being present!.
Everything sounds ok, except as someone else said, be weary of "natural flavors"!.
I know that for imitation bacon bits, they use artificial flavors, not natural flavor!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Except for the "natural flavors" all of those are vegan!. They're not necessarily good for you, but they are vegan!. Natural flavors is a toss-up; it covers a lot of ground!. So it could be veg, or it could be animal based!. You will have to contact the company and find out!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Some are definately not good for you!. Maybe do a little research on veganism, it is a way of life not a fad!. MSG is very bad for you!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
all these ingredients should be fine for you to consume!. they are all either chemicals or processed plants products!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
us humans do not eat animal byproduct, that is put in dog and cat food!. by product is left over meet from animals thrown into corners of meat factories and only picked up by other companies on certain days, some take a couple weeks to come, what happends to raw meet if its just laying there!? it rots, thats what byproduct is!. i think u have it mixed up, a vegetarian is someone who does not eat anything from an animal including milk, cheese, eggs, etc!. a vegan does not eat meet but drinks milk eats cheese, etc!. none of those ingredients are any animal, animal ingredients usually say chicken, beef, pork, etc!.Www@FoodAQ@Com