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recently i emailed trident in an attempt to receive clarification on the glycerin and gum base that they have in their gum. in their reply, they said that "Our Trident Tropical Twist has no Animal By Product in it. The
gelatin, glycerin, and gum base are all either vegetable or synthetic."

can gelatin, glycerin, and gum base be synthetic or vegetable based? i'm more concerned with the gelatin, mainly because i've never seen it based any other way.

2007-03-27 12:18:27 · 4 answers · asked by yuffleduffles 3 in Food & Drink Vegetarian & Vegan

4 answers

I would say their statement lacks credibility (to put it nicely).

The gum base is the *major* problem with any chewing gum that uses it instead of natural chicle! Gum base is a 'standard identity' product and as such companies that buy it from a gum base manufacturer don't actually know what *exactly* is in it! Some of the problematic ingredients that are allowed in gum base are lanolin, glycerin, polyvinyl acetate, and stearic acid. There is *NO* such thing as vegetarian lanolin!

There is also no such thing as vegetarian gelatin! There *are* vegetarian substitutes for it but if it says gelatin it came at some point from an animal. Period!!!

Here's where what I think confused Trident (I'm being charitable) because something similar happened several years back...

Under Kashrut (Jewish dietary law) Rabbis have in the past issued rulings that gelatin (and gum base) are so heavily refined that they no longer (under Kashrut) count as an animal ingredient. You might want to look up "Emes" non-animal gelatin and marshmallows to understand a bit about this.

Gum base and gelatin both have a standard of identity that (for a vegetarian) mean they are always considered animal products!

2007-03-27 14:15:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3 0

Gum base and glycerin can, but I'm not sure about gelatin.

2007-03-27 19:23:38 · answer #2 · answered by veggierockerdude 2 · 0 0

ok look on this page there is an entry about gelatin as a veg base from sea weed but its so much to research i just sent the page but its down at the 5 ,6 ,7 entries take a look see if this helps

2007-03-27 19:30:44 · answer #3 · answered by raindovewmn41 6 · 0 0

it looks like from this reference below that greenghost is correct that there is no vegetable source for gelatin per se (although there are seaweed analogs to gelatin, such as agar, carrageenan, and gelazone)

Gelatin Substitutes for Vegans
http://www.vegsoc.org/info/gelling.html
http://www.edenfoods.com/issues_carrageenan.html (carrageenan)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelatin_dessert (agar and Carrageenan)

2007-03-27 22:12:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

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