The food colorings: yellow lake 4, blue lake 6, etc. Are they infact vegan? What the hell are they, anyway? I do know that fake-o maraschino cherries are made from a food coloring that is not vegan (if you can tell me what it contains, even better). From my understanding, this has not been discussed from the tags I extensively peeked at. I'm ( Read more... )

Anyone know what's in it?

I've googled it a million times, and all I can find is that it's drippings from barley "concocted into a flavoring." But concocted with WHAT?

Is it vegan?

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First off, apologies for the newbie post, but I have been trying to Google this. I used to live in the UK and am only just starting the process of emigrating to the US, but I've found the way in which vegetarians/vegans are defined back home and here is a bit iffy. I know I have to put up with people saying "your friend's a vegetarian, but they ( Read more... )

is eating a few peanuts w/ my friend, realizing that they didn't taste much like peanuts, and when i looked at the ingredients finding out that they were covered in cornsyrup, msg, and GELATIN!!!! why? why do peanuts need msg, much less gelatin? what is the gelatin even doing, if it's not holding them together or gelling anything? so stupid. it was ( Read more... )

Hello everyone! I've been lurking around for about a year, I think, but this is my first actual post. I've been vegetarian going on seven years, and started my third or fourth attempt to go vegan on Wednesday. Halloween is as good a day as any, right ( Read more... )

Doing some research on FDA labels, inspired by the Mr. Dorf post, I came across a few websites that may be of intrest to people here ( Read more... )

This is only one article and I don't know how credible it is but I found it interesting nonetheless, we were talking about this at dinner tonight. An excerpt I found particularly enlightening. I bolded the two I was shocked to hear. Not that I've ever trusted the ingredient "natural flavouring ( Read more... )