Foods That Contain Hidden Animal Ingredients

[Guest guest]

I collected the group's contributions re: Foods That Contain Hidden Animal

Ingredients and compiled them into categories below: I hope this list helps

you avoid unwanted animal products.

 

Lunch Foods

· Soup with chicken or beef base

· Most canned soups have chicken or beef fat or broth, few exceptions

· Dried soups, single serving dried noodles, and dried bean and rice mixes

can contain chicken or beef fat. Ramen noodles usually have animal fats and

flavorings in the powder mix

· Salad kits can have anchovies in the dressing

· Caesar salad dressing usually has anchovies

· Many canned beans have lard or bacon, unless they say vegetarian or

cholesterol-free

· Some brands of frozen French fries are processed with animal fat

 

Dinner Foods

· Most gravy has meat drippings or meat flavoring

· Frozen casseroles may have been prepared with meat

· Many casserole dishes, like frozen veggie lasagne have gelatin or animal

fat

· Spaghetti sauce flavored with meat

· Chicken and beef broth are commonly used to cook vegetables and rice

· Foods cooked in lard or animal fat

· Beans flavored with meat, meat broth or meat fat.

· Mexican refried beans cooked with lard

 

Snacks, Treats and Desserts

· Frozen pie crusts and prepared pies and tarts are frequently made with

lard

· Gelatin (Marshmallows contain gelatin. Marshmallow creme has egg, but not

usually gelatin, Jello, Gummi candies, Rice Crispie snacks, Twizzlers, and

some but not all fruit chewy snacks have gelatin, Altoids used to have

tallow, now they have gelatin, Many other candies and snacks have gelatin

and/or fat

· Pizza or bacon flavored crackers, potato chips, Pringles often have

pepperoni or fat

· Chex snacks with pretzels and nuts usually have Worcestershire with

anchovies

· Many snacks like Dolly Madison (Little Debbie is Adventist vegetarian, but

not very healthy)

· 30 years ago all cookies and snacks had lard except Sunshine and Little

Debbie, now most don't

· Moon pies, Rocky Road ice cream contain animal fat

· McDonald's French fries are pre-cooked in beef fat

 

Miscellaneous

· Most yogurt and cheap sour cream or other dairy foods have gelatin

· Cheese Whiz, processed cheeses and cheese dips frequently have fat or

anchovies

· Most prepared dips have gelatin

· Many salad dressings have gelatin, anchovies

· Prepared guacamole often has gelatin

· Low fat or no fat margarine frequently has gelatin

· Pillsbury canned dough products used to have beef fat, now not all do

· Worcestershire sauce almost always has anchovies, and many ingredient

lists indicate Worcestershire sauce without saying anchovies

 

 

Drinks

· Red fruit juices, drinks and punch with cochineal or carmine (insects)

 

 

Words of caution from contributors:

· Talking to a person who worked at a factory which puts both vegetable and

animal shortening into cans, I learned the workers are very sloppy about

what actually goes into the cans; when they change from one packing

operation to the other, they don't clean the machines, they just start

putting in the other kind of shortening; sometimes it makes a mix in the

cans, despite the label.

 

· When getting cheese sliced at the deli counter, ask to be sure they don’t

cut the cheese in the same machine used to cut meat.

 

· Printing ink is made from bone black or ivory black, charcoalized bones,

not elephant ivory. Newspapers, magazines, books are non-vegetarian and

ubiquitous. Ink could be made from wood charcoal, but it usually isn't.

 

· I once bought digestive dietary supplements from Solgar stating " Suitable

for Vegetarians " on the front. It contained ox bile - of all things!

 

· Check your vitamins and supplements. Also, things in capsules or gel caps

are generally made from gelatin unless labeled vegi-cap.

 

· Homeopathic medicines are frequently made using animal ingredients