Veggie Candy?!


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Veggie Candy?


Is it true that you can't eat skittles or candy corn when you are vegetarian? Please tell me what candies have traces of meat in them since I an a lacto-ovo vegetarian. Also, is it true Doritos have pork in them? Please help!


Answers: Skittles in North America have animal sourced gelatine in them. They don't in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Most gummy candy - gummy bears, worms, wine gums, apple-o's and the like - do. Jujubes and sour patch kids don't, though.

Many chips contain meat products. BBQ baked lays have chicken fat; onion Sun Chips contain beef. Hostess Frito Lay no longer has a list of products that contain meat, so what you should do is write your country's customer service department a quick email.

Here's an extensive list of vegan candy.
http://www.petakids.com/candy.html...
Hopefully, there's something there for you! Good luck!

Edit: As for candy corn, most contain gelatine, however, I found a tub at Wal-Mart in my hometown that had no meat byproducts. Maybe you can find the same around where you live? I ate mine already, so I don't know the brand, I apologize... candy is fine but doritoes may be fried in pork fat Skittles have gelatin in them, a no-no for veg*ans. I'm not sure about candy corn.

Check out Pangea (www.veganstore.com) or Vegan Essentials (www.veganessentials.com) for good vegan junk food. Or check out "Skinny B!tch," which has a list of vegan junk food at the back of the book. Many candies have gelatin, which is a slaughter by-product. You can find a list of vegetarian-friendly candies on the Peta kids website. No Thanks. Skittles have gelatin in the US but not in the UK.
Every candy corn I've seen is vegetarian but not vegan. (has eggs and honey.) I don't know but you have to be VERY careful with stuff like that because at my school, they put pork in our applesauce!!!! A lot of candy has pork or bovine geletine in it - bones/hooves/ligaments.

Soem Dorito flavours may have pork in them.

Your questinos are a bit random and you might want to approach this more methodically. About 70% of food is not suitabel for vegetarians. This includes some really bizarre items like varieties of frozen and tinned vegetables, frys/chips, buscuits, cakes, bread, yogurt, wine, beer, candy, soups, cereals....the list is endless so just identifying individual items will not work, you couldnt' keep up with the ever-changing lists.

The best way of coping with this is to learn where ingredients come from. Once you get used to it, your shopping trip takes just a few minutes longer.

The veggie society has a good set of pages to start with:
www.vegsoc.org



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