are oreos really cooked in pig lard????

Question

my friend keeps telling me this but i'm not quite sure if it's true. have you ever heard of this?

Answer 1

It may sound crazy but there are a lot of foods out there that may contain animal product that you may not know about. Like refriend beans have lard in them, marshmallows have gelatin in them which is boiled animal tendons, bones and skin. You never really know unless you read the ingredients and know a majority of which ingredients have animal product in them. My friend gave me this site. You can go here to read on alot of ingredients.

http://www.vegetarian-restaurants.net/OtherInfo/Chemicals.htm

Answer 2

Oreo Lard

Answer 3

Can't be.

There are two "parts" to an oreo, the cookie and the filling

Cookies are made by a dry air baking method. (throw dough into an oven)
The filling is an icing, and isn't cooked at all.

Now, it may be possable that pig lard is used in the cookie, but given how the price of it compares to other vegetable shortenings, it's not likely.

Answer 4

No pig lard......

"In 1998, Nabisco declared that Oreo cookies were kosher-dairy in Kosher diets. On May 13, 2003, attorney Stephen Joseph filed a lawsuit charging Nabisco with using hydrogenated, or partially hydrogenated, oils (trans fats) to make the cookies. The suit was dropped as Nabisco considered replacing the hydrogenated oils with alternative oils. As of January 2006, classic Oreo cookies are no longer manufactured with hydrogenated oils. Older packages will still be on store shelves for some time, and other varieties may not have eliminated hydrogenated oils completely.
Depending on the area of manufacture, Oreo cookies may or may not be vegan."

Answer 5

Oreos were originally cooked on pig lard- which was on their ingredients list- but then in 1997 kosher-Oreos were protested. Ever since then they have not been cooked in Lard and are completely vegetarian! :)

Answer 6

No, ever since 1997 they have been a kosher cookie, but yes before that time they were cooked in pig lard. Not anymore so if you're vegetarian pig out ;)

Answer 7

I hardlt think oreo are cook in pig lard cause it they were oreo wouldn't taste right.

Answer 8

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probably not. but come on, it's processed food. you don't really think it's all natural or good for us. i wouldn't be surprised, the chemicals & preservatives used in stuff is gross sometimes. my man used to work at a vitamin company & they use some gross sounding natural ingredients to make the "skin" on gel caplets. maybe just maybe there is some "lard"/crisco stuff in the oreo recipe & if it's made from bacon grease, then she could be right .. ya know ... pig lard, just said a different way. people use bacon & fish grease (aka lard) in lots of recipes. my dad is southern, bacon grease was an ingredient in one of our recipes at thanksgiving.

Answer 9

Defenitely not. Pig lard is way to expensive to use for cookies. Plus I doubt they found a loop hole in FDA regs, becasue it is not on the back of the lable

Answer 10

What is listed in the ingredients on the package?

Ingredients: SUGAR, ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE [VITAMIN B1], RIBOFLAVIN [VITAMIN B2], FOLIC ACID), HIGH OLEIC CANOLA OIL AND/OR PALM OIL AND/OR CANOLA OIL, COCOA (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, BAKING SODA, CORNSTARCH, SALT, SOY LECITHIN (EMULSIFIER), VANILLIN-AN ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, CHOCOLATE.

No pig lard here. You can safely say to your freinds that they are full of pig lard.