I bet you didn't know that your standard marshmallow has pork gluten in it?
And that most jelly sweets contain pork or bovine gluten?
Oh and that delicious chocolate mousse... pork gluten!
UK Oreo cookies... Not vegetarian (US ones are though?)
I didn't realise until recently how much animal products are in sweets/sweet foods. I assumed, as I'm sure most of us do, that because it's a sweet, it doesn't have meat. Wrong!
And why do I have to know all this?
Because my daughter, who has been a vegetarian for nearly two years, has decided to investigate even more intensively the food she is eating. She decided in May 2009 that she did not want to eat animals... fair enough, we've bought quorn products/meat substitutes and thought that was it. No, she now reads labels and looks out for all those words that we previously didn't even know what they meant!
And yes, she's stopped eating marshmallows/jelly sweets and even her favourite chocolate mousse.
Helen
xxx
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You know what that means? Time to start treating her to handmade vegetarian ones!
http://dairyfreecooking.about.com/od/confectionscandies/r/marshamallow.htm
Mmm, I've never made marshmallows ~ are they messy?
Wow! I had no idea. Thanks Helen
I did know about some of these, but certainly not Oreos! I'm veggie but I am aware that I still occasionally eat some of these things... I think it becomes difficult when you're given jelly sweets and things as gifts... So sometimes I eat them, or I give them to my family.
Claire x
www.still-listening-on-your-behalf.blogspot.com
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