L-cysteine | Derived from human and hog hair or duck feathers | To soften pizza dough, cookies, pastries and fast food buns |
Bone Char | Cattle bones | Used to filter, whiten and process sugar |
Carmine | a ground-up female beetle that feeds on cacti | Red coloring in some juices, candies, popsicles and those cherries! |
Gelatine | Protein from bones, cartilage, tendons, and skin of animals | Marshmallows, yogurt, cereals, gelatin-containing desserts |
Isinglass | Air bladder of sturgeon and other freshwater fish | Used to "clarify" some wines and beer |
Pepsin | Enzyme from pig's stomach | Causes milk to coagulate to become cheese |
Rennet | Enzyme from calf's stomach | Causes milk to coagulate
to become cheese
|
Shellac | Secretion of the lac bug | To glaze candies and fresh apples |
Tallow | Solid fat of sheep and cattle | Margarine |
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Hidden Animal Ingredients
Did you know that so many common foods have animal-derived ingredients?
Watching Episode 3 of the second season of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, there was a very memorable clip where he taught a group of high school kids about the ingredients of some of the colorful candy and cookie dough toppings the kids put on an ice cream sundae. Bugs and feathers, yuck! This clip was a definite eye-opener. Here are a few foods that you should probably know about, especially what is seemingly vegetarian, is in reality, not. Who on earth came up with the idea of adding these ingredients in the first place?
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