Hidden Animal Ingredients Ingredient What It Is Its Use

The protein component of egg whites. Albumin is also found in animal To thicken or add texture to processed foods. blood, milk, plants, and seeds. Small, silvery fish of herring family. Butter, suet, lard (see lard below). Worcestershire sauce, Caesar salad dressing, pizza topping, Greek salads. Packaged cookies and crackers, refried beans, flour tortillas, ready-made pie crusts.

Albumin

Anchovies Animal shortening Carmine (carmine, cochineal, or carminic acid) Calcium stearate

Red coloring made from Bottled juices, colored pasta, some candies, a ground-up insect. frozen pops, "natural" cosmetics. Mineral typically derived from cows or hogs Animal fats Garlic salt, vanilla, meat tenderizers, saladdressing mixes. added to ice cream, candy, baked goods, chewing gum, liquor and often not specified on ingredients lists.

Capric acid (decanoic acid)

Casein (caseinate)

A milk protein. It An additive in dairy products such as cheese, coagulates with the addition of rennin (see cream cheese, cottage cheese, and sour cream. rennin below) and is the Also used in adhesives, paints, and plastics. foundation of cheese. Derived from any number of animal sources. Used to filter wine, vinegar, beer, fruit juice, soft drinks.

Clarifying agent

Gelatin

Protein from bones, cartilage, tendons, and skin of animals, Much Marshmallows, yogurt, frosted cereals, gelatinof the commercial containing desserts, molded salads.. gelatin is a by-product of pig skin. Fruits or animal tissues Baked goods, soft drinks, candies, frosting. and fluids. Processed foods, cosmetics, perfumes, lotions, inks, glues, automobile antifreeze. Used as emulsifier.

Glucose (dextrose)

Glycerides (mono-, di-, Glycerol from animal and triglycerides fats or plants.

Isinglass

Gelatin from air bladder Clarify alcoholic beverages and in some jellied of sturgeon and other desserts. Rarely used now.

Lactic acid

freshwater fish. Acid formed by bacteria Cheese, yogurt, pickles, olives, sauerkraut, acting on the milk sugar candy, frozen desserts, chewing gum, fruit lactose. Imparts a tart preserves, dyeing and textile printing. flavor. Culture medium for souring milk and in processed foods such as baby formulas, candies and other sweets, medicinal diuretics, and laxatives.

Lactose (saccharum lactin, D-lactose

Milk sugar.

Lactylic stearate Lanolin

Salt of stearic acid (see Dough conditioner. stearic acid below). Waxy fat from sheep's wool. Chewing gum, ointments, cosmetics, waterproof coatings.

Lard

Rendered and clarified pork fat. Often fat from abdomens of pigs or the Baked goods. fat around the animal's kidneys. Phospholipids form animal tissues, plants, Cereal, candy, chocolate, baked goods, lentils, and egg yolks margarine, vegetable oil sprays, cosmetics, and used to preserve, ink. emulsify, and moisturize food. Deep yellow coloring from marigolds or egg yolks. Animal fats. Unspecified, could be from meat or other animal products Commercial food coloring.

Lecithin

Lutein

Myristic acid (tetradecanoic acid) Natural flavorings

Chocolate, ice cream, candy, jelled desserts, baked goods. Processed and packaged foods. Synthetic butter, cheese, vegetable fats and oils, spice flavoring for baked goods, candy, ice cream, beverages, condiments, soaps, cosmetics. Baked goods, butter and cheese flavoring. Digestive aids. With rennet to make cheese.

Animal tallow (see Oleic acid (oleinic acid) tallow below) Palmatic acid Pancreatin (pancreatic extract) Pepsin Animal or vegetable fats. Cows or hogs Enzyme from pigs' stomachs

Propolis

Resinous cement collected by bees A coagulating enzyme

Food supplement and ingredient in "natural" toothpaste.

Rennin (Rennet)

obtained from a young Rennin is used to curdle milk in foods such as animal's stomach, cheese and junket--a soft pudding like dessert. usually a calf's stomach Substance produced by "Natural foods" and nutrient supplements. glands of bees. May be derived from cows, hogs, animal milk, Used in cake, pudding, or pancake mixes, baked or vegetable-mineral goods, margarine. sources. Tallow, other animal fats and oils Hard white fat around kidneys and loins of animals Vanilla flavoring, chewing gum, baked goods, beverages, candy, soaps, ointments, candles, cosmetics, suppositories and pill coatings. Margarine, mincemeat, pastries, bird feed, tallow.

Royal jelly

Sodium stearoyl lactylate

Stearic acid (octadecenoic acid)

Suet

Tallow

Solid fat of sheep and Waxed paper, margarine, soaps, crayons, cattle separated from candles, rubber, cosmetics. the membranous tissues Vitamin supplements, fortification of foods, "natural" cosmetics.

Vitamin obtained from Vitamin A (A1, retinol) vegetables, egg yolks, or fish liver oil.

Vitamin B12

Vitamin produced by microorganisms and found in all animal products; synthetic Supplements or fortified foods. form (cyanocobalamin or cobalamin on labels) is vegan

D1 is produced by humans upon exposure to sunlight; D2 (ergocalciferol) is made Supplements or fortified foods. Vitamin D (D1, D2, D3) from plants or yeast, D3 (cholecalciferol comes from fish liver oils or lanolin Watery liquid that separates from the solids (curds) of milks in cheese-making. Crackers, breads, cakes, processed foods in cheese-making.

Whey

Source: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Being Vegetarian by Suzanne Havala, M.S., R.D., F.A.D.A., Food Lover's Companion by Sharon Tyler Herbst, The Vegan Sourcebook by Joanne Stepaniak, M.S.Ed.

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