What are some foods that contain meat products?!
What are some foods that contain meat products?
I have recently switched to vegetarian (ovo-lacto). I am keep finding out the foods I love contain some form of animal product, like marshmellows, yogurt and jello. Besides these foods, what are some normal, everyday foods that are suprisingly made with animal product?? I've ordered Animal Ingredients A-Z, but until it gets here does anyone have any input for me? Thanks.
Answers:
it is easier than you think... Just read the labels and it will tell the story of all that is in the package.
OR the best solution of all is to make it your self from scratch !
Animal products are in almost everything (sugar,natural flavoring) and so on
Source(s):
http://www.peta.org/accidentallyvegan/...
read your labels and you'll be surprised.
Beef, Chicken, Pork....all those have meat in them, surprisingly a burger from McDonalds has very little.
Natural and Artificial Flavors and Food Coloring: These are made from thousands of ingredients which may be veg or non-veg. When fully broken down to subunits, a simple strawberry flavor may contain over a hundred ingredients. The words “flavors and colors” provide very little information about the true composition of these items. Three of the most common problematic ingredients used in flavors and colors are what I often refer to as “The Three C’s”; carmine, civet and castorium. Carmine is a bright red coloring agent derived from the pulverized shells of a beetle-like insect. Civet is extracted from a cat secretion and castorium is produced from a beaver secretion. Civet and castorium are used as flavor enhancers. Flavors can also contain ingredients produced by biotechnology (this process may utilize non vegetarian nutrients such as blood or animal tissue) as well as derivatives of grape juice and animal oil.
What could be wrong with fruit cocktail? Would you believe there may be animal derivatives mixed into the fruit? Until a few years ago, the cherries in fruit cocktail were dyed with an artificial red color. That particular dye was banned because it was suspected to be carcinogenic. Today, all fruit cocktail companies without reliable supervision use carmine to color the cherries. In addition, some fruit cocktails have flavors which may contain other problematic ingredients.
A good website is THEVEGANWOLF.com
Bread....some has lard
Anything that says mono or diglycerides could be animal fat or could be vegetable fat. Unless the ingredient states 100% vegetable fat you just don't know.
Some pizza places use lard in the dough and mcdonald's and burger kings french fries and hashbrowns have lard in the actual fries (instead of the oil- which was deceptive in my opinion). My advice is to be very weary of most restaraunts. I like shopping at my co-op which is more vegetarian friendly when it comes to ready to eat foods.
Wines, beers, spirits, soft drinks