Kosher parve food items?!

Kosher parve food items?

What's the difference between an item being just plain "kosher" and saying "kosher parve"?

I know that there's a symbol after the "K" if it has meat or dairy in it, but if it just has a "K" does that mean that there's no animal OR dairy in it? If so, what's the point with saying "parve"?

1 day ago
Oh, so an item can just be labeled with a "K" and still contain either meat or dairy?

Just a K by itself doesn't mean a whole lot. Needs to be inside a triangle or circle. Also look for a U inside a circle.

Typically just the kosher sign means parve. But you have to look at the food in context. On just the symbol on . . .

hotdogs it probably has some beef in it (at least I hope it does). Even if the label doesn't say meat.

on yogurt it probably has some dairy even if it doesn't say so.

where you often see the dairy or parve signs are baked goods because, sometimes they got milk some times they don't.

I once say kosher dairy hotdog rolls -- now really, what is a non-veggie observant Jew going to use those for?

I once bought chicken bullion cubes that specifically mentioned they are parve. It makes sense, because unless you tell me otherwise I am gonna assume anything with chicken in its name ain't parve.

Why are you asking this in V&V and not R&S?