food surprises~not vegetarian

I got this from veggieboards.com
Surprisingly Not Vegetarian

• Twinkies (Beef Fat)
• Stovetop Stuffing, including flavours like "Cornbread" and "Mushroom and Onion" and "Savoury Herb." (Chicken Fat)
• Yellow rice mixes. (Chicken Fat)
• Worcestershire Sauce (Anchovies)
• Smith's Salt and Vinegar Potato Chips (lactose)
• candies and frostings in cereals (gelatin)
• Hostess Moon pies, Zingers, fruit pies, etc. (beef fat)
• Some fruit (shellac coating)
• Some Dry Roasted Peanuts (gelatin)
• Baked Lays BBQ Chips (chicken fat)
• Junior Mints (gelatin)
• Skittles and Starburst in US (gelatin)
• Some potato wedges, and hash browns. (Beef tallow)
• Many "Vegetable" Soups (Chicken stock)
• Strawberry Nerds candy (carmine)
• Some Lemon Pepper spices (chicken stock)
• Smarties in UK (carmine)
• Doritos Salsa Verde chips (chicken fat)
• Most Altoids mints (gelatin)
• Some Refried Beans (lard)
• Jiffy Cornbread/Muffin mixes (lard)
• Some yogurt (gelatin)
• A few "Vegetarian" vitamins (gelatin/carmine/D3)
• Ocean Spray pink cranberry juice cocktail (carmine)
• Dannon strawberry yogurt (carmine)
• Some spring rolls (fish sauce)
• Rolaids Tropical Punch (carmine)
• Rice Krispy Treats (gelatin)
• Some restaurant-made Garlic Brocolli (chicken broth)
• Ding Dongs (beef fat)
• Gebhardt enchilada sauce (Beef fat)
• Some packaged taco seasoning mixes (Beef fat)
• Trader Joe's frozen Thai green beans (shrimp)
• Trader Joe's frozen Pad Thais (chicken stock)
• Caesar Dressings (anchovies)
• Frosted Pop Tarts (gelatin)
• Some frozen bisquits (beef tallow)
• Moon Pies (gelatin)
• McDonald's French Fries / Hashbrowns (beef flavoring)
• McCains frozen cut potatoes (tallow)
• Trader Joe's Instant Miso Soup (clam/bonito)
• Birds Eye frozen Tuscan Vegetables (chicken)
• Jello (gelatin)
• Some cheeses are coagulated using rennet, which may be animal derived.

 

Oh boy, that made me want to throw up.

 

Oh man, im VEGAN and have some ocean spray cranberry juice in the fridge!! Im not sure if its a cocktail or not, and i always check labels so i assume its something different...but its spookily close. I may have to get rid anyway

 

It wasn't on the list but alot of yogurt has powdered fish bones in it also~so it's not really a vegetarian food. I didn't realize that until drumminmama got me into researching it yrs ago.

 

Oooh, thanks! Looks like I'm on the right track... but what's in the gelatin that's not vegan? I don't eat them often, but I do occasionally share a box of Junior Mints with the kids. I'd like to at least KNOW what we're eating
love,
mom

 

Ewww insect based food coloring.....yumm...."care for some ground up red beetles in your cranberry cocktail, miss?" hehe eww.

 

The strangest and most fucked up thing about the cranberry juice: Cranberry itself is one of the most potent natural red dyes there is. So... this either tells us something about the true cranberry content of this "cocktail", or the way it's processed.

 

Ok ive checked the carton (before throwing it straight in the bin) and my cranberry was called "Ocean Spray cranberry classic". It could still be the one you mentioned though, i know they give them different names in the UK. But the label has no mention of anything non-vegan at all...it says water and cranberry juice. Yikes guys, i feel shitty. Whats wrong with people, trying to shove dead animal in everything possible?

I couldnt believe it when i first went vegan, the amount of potato chips that contained milk or some other animal product i never even knew about. Its unnecessary, and weird

 

You just gotta read ingredients man. I read them on everything... My altoids don't have gelatin in them yay. Ugh they need to stop with all those animal products, I really don't understand the reason for them in foods at all... unless its beef broth then I guess its for flavor.

But yeah I try not to be surprised because I read the ingredients first, you gotta do that!

 

"Some cheeses are coagulated using rennet, which may be animal derived."

My veggie friends seem to conveniently forget this

 

You can get plant based gelatin, but it tends to be expensive.

As for collagen, totally worthless as a beauty product.

It can't be absorbed through the skin with any great sucess. It's most often injected to pump up sagging skin around the eyes for wrinkles and giving fuller lips.


x

 

Sorry for the mis-information earlier....had my facts mixed up in my head and I admit I didn't bother to fact-check before posting. :& I deleted that part of my post so nobody would see it again and take it for fact...