Do all noodles and breads contain eggs?

Question

I recently saw the way that egg laying chickens get treated and want to become vegetarian. I saw alot of vegetarian recipes that included noodles or bread but those products include eggs. Why do vegetarians eat these things if they're not supposed to eat eggs? or are there noodles you can get without eggs in them?

Answer 1

No, I always read the ingredients and there's very few noodles that contain eggs in them. In fact, most of them seem vegan from the ones I've seen in stores. Bread is a different story. The kind I used to buy didn't have eggs or milk in it, however, it had this hidden animal ingredient in it that was in most of the breads on the shelves. I asked the question a while back, you can look at the answers on mine for more information.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ag4tbx1VCrv1R9_rOPLmUhDty6IX?qid=20070626085157AAYfYtn

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Congratulations on wanting to become vegetarian, I doubt you will regret it. It is very liberating.

Traditional Italian pastas as well as some Asian noodles, and some breads do contain eggs. You'll find it relatively easy to discern which is suitable reading ingredients on packs or simply asking at restaurants.
Yes - there are eggless noodles and breads. Most, actually.

The most simple definition of vegetarian I can give you is a person who eats no animal flesh and products, but may eat honey, eggs and milk.
A vegetarian who eats eggs and milk is known as an "ovo-lacto vegetarian". Just eggs - "ovo-vegetarian. Just milk - "lacto-vegetarian".

None of these things, including honey = basically vegan.

There's no reason for anyone to be eating any animal products really, in answer to your question. It's unnecessary and difficult to determine even in an ideal backyard family chicken "pet" set-up, that removal of the eggs isn't upsetting to the hen. There no justification for milk.

I could get heavier here but for this moment I'll just say one step at a time, and good luck to you.

:)

Answer 4

as the first poster wrote "most noodles don't have eggs". This is, from my experience, true. Note the "most", not all. They're typically just made with flour and water, mainly, if you don't include certain vitamins and minerals. But some kinds do have them so its best to read ingredients when you buy noodles. At restaurants I think you'll be ok with ordering primavera, or rice noodles or soy noodles or something like that. As for bread, yes some kinds have egg but most kinds don't; in fact, many breads are vegan. Even French baguettes (the plain ones) are, I think, vegan!
As for vegetarians not eating eggs, well, eggs is not technically meat or a direct meat by-product (unless you think milk is a meat by-product), so its not exactly against the vegetarians' rules. I've been born and raised as a vegetarian and my family has never bought eggs or egg yolk or egg nog; however, my parents were not strict about us not having cake or cookies or things like that, so we still ate products containing eggs growing up. I've mistakenly eaten meat by product stuff too (e.g. Altoids and Junior mints, which contain gelatin....McDonald french fries b4 we knew about beef fat flavoring, and the list goes on, but never meat or eggs as they are), but if you don't count these unintentional mistakes then I've always been a vegetarian. I know plenty of vegetarians who eat products containing egg, but not eggs themselves.

I've personally made the decision to give up egg products a few years ago and have removed the dairy as well. But I don't think anyone eating egg products automatically makes them a non-vegetarian. Besides, can you imagine how a parent would tell their 5-year old child to not enjoy a piece of birthday cake at his/her friends' birthday, something probably every child had the chance to do when young? Explaining the morality and animal issue of eggs in cake would be too much. On the other hand, it should be easier to teach them to avoid meat, because well, meat has a distinct look, texture, and flavor, and smell thats easy to detect and avoid. Besides, just about all young kinds LOVE animals, esp. because lots of kid stories and toys pertain to animals, so I'm sure they'd not want to eat them!

Its ridiculous, IMHO, what sorts of stuff they put egg in. The Ener-G Egg Replacer, which I use when baking, is pretty good, too. I think many vegetarians are not aware that noodles and bread are made with eggs, and believe that because the eggs used are generally unfertilized that its not an unborn chick that goes into their food. I used to have this mentality too. Also, without noodles and bread, what is a good source of carbs? Would people eat only rice, protein shakes and energy bars for carbs?

Answer 5

When reading the ingredients, eggs may not show up as 'eggs'. In a nutrition class I once attended, it gave a list of milk and milk products and eggs and egg products all listed by other names. You may want to do an internet search on 'other names for' and go shopping armed with this list as well. Some breads and noodles are egg/milk free, others are not. Pays to be prepared and knowlegble.

Answer 6

A lot of noodles and breads are egg free. You just have to read the ingredients!

Some products will have labels that say "Allergen Information: Contains (Food such as Egg, Milk, etc) Ingredients". These labels are a godsend, they keep you from having to read every single ingredient.

Go to www.caringconsumer.org for more animal ingredients to avoid, and good luck!

Answer 7

Most breads do not contain eggs. Many types of pasta contain only durum wheat and water. You just have to learn to read the ingredient list.

Answer 8

Vegetarians can eat eags! And dairy.

Lacto/Ovo veggies and vegans can not.

Egg is used as a binder often, not always. I am just a simple vegetarian, but I know vegans that definately eat breads and noodles with egg.

Answer 9

Eggs are used to make the raw noodles stick and compact. However, there are some companies which substitute eggs with wax.

Answer 10

most noodles contain only one ingredient (wheat) and as for breads it is a label by label thing. pick a brand and stick with it.