List of Ingredients

[newton]

I was wondering if there are websites that list ingredients too look out for when buying products.

I know this is a vegan site but a vegetarian site that only list meat ingredients is fine for me, but others may be interested in vegan list.

Thanks.

[Talia]

Here are two really easy to use vegan lists. They are very long, but how I first dealt with them was I identified all the ingredients I recognized and memorized those. Then I gradually tried to add more to my memory. I'm still in the process as it's obviously a long list. Trying, not perfection, is the goal in my opinion.

www.veganbaking.net/resources/animal-ingredients-list.html
www.peta.org/living/vegetarian-living/animal-ingredient-guide.aspx

I don't have a vegetarian list but I think it depends on your definition of vegetarian. Does vegetarian include just flesh, or does it also include immediately killing an animal (all products eventually kill the animal, so acknowledging this would be vegan)?

Here's my short, off the top of my head, that is vegetarian assuming vegetarians do not eat anything that immediately kills the animal. If anyone knows anything I missed please add it. I skipped things like beef, fish, veal, chicken etc. as that's obvious.

Suet, Lard, Animal Fat, or Tallow
Gelatin (in candies often)
Rennet (in most cheese)
Carmine or Red 23
Anchovies (which are in a lot of sauces and sneak in a lot)
Oyster (in soups/sauces)
Shellac (on shiny snacks)
D3
Omega 3 (often)

[newton]

I just didn't want a large list with items that listed a whole bunch of milk ingredients. To be hoenst I am lazy and didn't want to seed through large list deleting milk ingredients. I was looking for for things made from animal bones, fat, that kind of stuff. Will check out your list though.

[Talia]

Everything on the list I wrote out from you should work then.

To clarify (in case you skip over it as I said cheese and you wanted to not look at milk), "rennet (in most cheese)" is the intestinal tract of a baby animal (cow or goat usually) that is used in the production processes of most hard cheeses. It will not show up on the ingredient list because it is not required to by law in Canada, but it does kill the animal to obtain it and it does create the cheese.

I'm pointing that out just to show how complicated it is. I don't mean to scare/overwhelm you though. Just go at your own pace, as long as you keep thinking. =)