Guest guest Posted March 22, 2004 Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 I know we've talked about making yoghurt and I'm intending on getting me a maker and trying to make soy youghurt at home. I have a question though. My daughter and husband are vegetarian (not vegan). I had never really ate yoghurt but started eating soy youghurt and my daughter loves it. I have to go to the whole foods store to get it. I was going to buy her some dairy yoghurt over the weekend at the grocery store and they all listed gelatin or kosher gelatin in the ingredients. Or all the ones I looked at. I know there are some gelatins that are made from plant origin.. is that what kosher gelatin means. Can anybody recommend a vegetarian youghurt? All the more reason not to feed my child dairy... really struggling with this one. I'm not giving her anything that is not at least vegetarian. I'd rather her be vegan.. but want to allow her to eat at least what daddy eats.. just not much of it... as long as she is a mostly vegan vegetarian I can handle that. thanks, Renee Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 23, 2004 Report Share Posted March 23, 2004 Gelatin is normally made from animal bones, hides and hooves. Kosher gelatin is made from kosher animals, not pigs. Kosher for Passover gelatin is made from vegetable sources, like seaweed or other plants. That last kind is hard to find, but some healthfood stores have it. Marshmallows are made from gelatin and vegetarian marshmallows are like the holy grail for vegetarians. Most low-fat yogurt in stores has gelatin. Fruit on the bottom usually doesn't have gelatin, but you have to check each brand and sometimes each flavor within each brand. Walmart has a brand called Yo-Crunch with no gelatin. Dannon Plain has none. But some brands change their recipe and add gelatin later. Yoplait started out without gelatin; now it has it. Keep checking. You can use plain yogurt as starter for homemade yogurt, or you can buy yogurt starter, which resembles yeast, at a health food store. For making yogurt at home, powdered milk works well and you can mix it with more powder than the recipe calls for for making milk; that makes more nutritious yogurt than you can buy in the store. -- Be kind. Be of good cheer. Dick Ford Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 23, 2004 Report Share Posted March 23, 2004 Brown Cow yogurt is vegetarian and they even have some organic flavors and some whole milk flavors good for younger kids, so are some flavors of Dannon (but not all - so read the label). Kosher gelatin is NOT vegetarian. , Renee Carroll <renecarol25> wrote: > > I know we've talked about making yoghurt and I'm intending on getting me a maker and trying to make soy youghurt at home. I have a question though. My daughter and husband are vegetarian (not vegan). I had never really ate yoghurt but started eating soy youghurt and my daughter loves it. I have to go to the whole foods store to get it. I was going to buy her some dairy yoghurt over the weekend at the grocery store and they all listed gelatin or kosher gelatin in the ingredients. Or all the ones I looked at. I know there are some gelatins that are made from plant origin.. is that what kosher gelatin means. Can anybody recommend a vegetarian youghurt? All the more reason not to feed my child dairy... really struggling with this one. I'm not giving her anything that is not at least vegetarian. I'd rather her be vegan.. but want to allow her to eat at least what daddy eats.. just not much of it... as long as she is a mostly vegan vegetarian I can handle that. > > thanks, > Renee > > > > Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 23, 2004 Report Share Posted March 23, 2004 > I know there are some gelatins that are > made from plant origin.. is that what kosher gelatin > means. Can anybody recommend a vegetarian youghurt? Although you wouldn't think that dairy and meat could be combined in a kosher way, they can in this case. Since gelatin isn't considered a food, you can use meat-based gelatin in dairy products. Kosher gelatin *often* comes from animals (sometimes fish, sometimes kosher cows--just not from pigs). To verify, call the customer service # of the brand in question and ask about the makeup of their gelatin. You might try looking for smaller brands of yogurt, such as Brown Cow, Horizon Organic, Nancy's, Pavels, etc. I believe that they do not use gelatin. If your big grocery store doesn't carry those brands, ask them to. Natural food stores usually have them. In our family, we eat soy yogurts--Silk, Whole Soy, Wildwood, Nancy's, and now O'Soy (in small cups for toddlers--my 1-year-old loves it. Karen Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes./filing.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 24, 2004 Report Share Posted March 24, 2004 Have you tried Stonyfield Farms? Their milk-based yogurt is organic and very pure, with no gelatin, artificial ingredients, or aspartame. They also make soy yogurt for adults and children, which is really good. > I know there are some gelatins that are > made from plant origin.. is that what kosher gelatin > means. Can anybody recommend a vegetarian youghurt? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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