Read, before you call me racist. I was looking at some yoghurt ingredients, because I'm avoiding Conchineal. I heard Yoplait has it in their strawberry Yoghurt. Conchineal is a dye made from crushing bug. If you don't believe me, google it. Well I looked at Danon's Aptiva yoghurt and found Carmine. Its a purified version of Conchineal. THen I notice it has Kosher gelatin. So why bother getting kosher gelatin if bugs are not kosher?
2007-02-12 19:08:26 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Ethnic Cuisine
I kind of realise that bugs aren't Kosher, I'm not sure why they use Kosher Gelatin. Please don't tell me they have Rabbis blessing bugs.
2007-02-12 19:31:34 · update #1
Most insects are NOT kosher.. but there is a type of locust that is...
The Bug you mention isnt kosher
2007-02-12 19:15:07 · answer #1 · answered by darchangel_3 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not true. A prayer can not make anything kosher. Prayers are to ask forgiveness for the taking of the life of the animal that is about to be eaten. The prayer generally says that all life is precious to God. We take this life for the purpose of staining our lives. It is forbidden to take an animals life for amusement.
2014-05-17 21:35:10 · answer #2 · answered by Robin Spake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some insects are kosher. The list of animals of all types that or are not possibly kosher is found in Leviticus (sorry, I don't know precisely where, but Leviticus in the OT version of Martha Stewart), but grasshoppers are one type of insect that is in the yes list.
2007-02-13 20:21:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Bugs are probably Kosher because locusts are listed in the Torah as Kosher.
2007-02-13 04:39:19 · answer #4 · answered by MsE 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
"Kosher" and don't quote me too much, I'm not Jewish, is a range of definitions that exclude things rather than tells you what you can eat.
It follows that anything not written down as non- Kosher is OK!
(Though with all due respect to our Jewish friends, anything in the holy books can be interpreted ad infinitim and so may prove my argument above entirely wrong!)
By the way lots of "bugs" in lots of places are great to eat.
2007-02-13 06:57:44 · answer #5 · answered by salubrious 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Technically anything can be called 'kosher' . All it takes is for a Rabbi to pray over it.
2007-02-13 03:17:12 · answer #6 · answered by Haven17 5 · 0⤊ 6⤋
I think it is also in some cranberry drinks and in red lipstick...everytime you kiss a girl with red lipstick, you may be also kissing a bug...LOL
2007-02-13 05:35:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋