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? 

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