Re-Post or Maybe Duplicate - re NonVeggie Ingredients

[Guest guest]

is certainly acting up - and a message I wrote this morning seems to have

disappeared :-( I didn't keep a copy, sadly (oh my deathless prose lost to

posterity! LOL

 

OK - it was about non-veggie ingredients - to be more precise, 'hidden' animal

ingredients in food. The short version follows (lucky you!):

 

On veggie lists we try to assume that non-brandname items in recipes are the

vegetarian

versions of ingredients, although sometimes we specify to make it clear for

newbies. So,

while gelatine might be in yoghurt (crazy, eh?), since most recipes wouldn't

specify a

brand of yoghurt, 'yoghurt' would obviously mean, on a vegetarian list,

vegetarian yoghurt.

If in doubt, check the ingredients on the side of the tub before purchasing.

(That's a good

rule of thumb with almost anything you buy that doesn't look like a potato or a

carrot or a

cabbage or . . . you catch my drift.)

 

Likewise, bottled sauces might contain non-veggie ingredients - check the label.

However,

worcestershire sauce ALWAYS contains anchovies (little fishies) UNLESS it is a

vegetarian

version. Jarred or canned/tinned ingredients such as curry pastes (eg Thai curry

pastes)

may or may not contain fish sauce, shrimp paste, whatever. Check.

 

Cheeses: traditionally made using rennet - from the lining of the stomach of

baby cows.

Many cheeses nowadays, however, are rennet free - ask when you buy. On this (as

on

other veggie lists) we assume vegetarian cheese. Soy cheez is vegetarian - no

rennet - but

may not be suitable for vegans, since many contain casein (a milk protein).

Check the

label.

 

And so it goes. I can't remember, but here are a couple of links to help out:

 

http://www.cyberparent.com/eat/hiddenanimalsinfood.htm

 

http://www.hedweb.com/campaig/ingred.htm

 

We all do the best we can and we all try to learn from each other. These things

might not

matter to some vegetarians who are cutting out animal fats for health reasons,

whereas, at

the other end of the spectrum, it matters very very much to ethical vegetarians

(including

religious/philosophical reasons for being veggie).

 

Best, Pat (who knows as sure as eggs is eggs that her original post will know

mysteriously

reappear!)