Veggie Yogurt

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I have been eating a " veggie yogurt " that I get at the grocery

store. It's made by the same company that makes veggie slices and

vegan slices and many other veggie foods (name might be Galaxy, but

I'm not sure). All of their products are labeled in green and

white. The yogurt is quite good tasting, but beware: not all flavors

are vegan, or even vegetarian!

 

Last night I bought the peach flavored yogurt. For some reason,

right as I was getting ready to eat it, I read the ingredients. Last

ingredient listed is carmine coloring. Carmine, also sometimes

listed as cochineal, is made from the ground up dead bodies of female

cochineal insects. Watch for this ingredient in other foods also;

you sometimes see it in pink colored fruit drinks.

 

Some people have severe allergic reactions to carmine. Obviously, I

don't, since I had eaten the peach flavor before. I guess I had just

read the ingredients on one of the flavors and assumed (bad idea)

that all of the flavors were vegan. Now I am grossed out about

eating insect powder!