Is it true that you can't eat skittles or candy corn when you are vegetarian? Please tell me what candies have traces of meat in them since I an a lacto-ovo vegetarian. Also, is it true Doritos have pork in them? Please help!
2007-09-23 13:32:09 · 8 answers · asked by JCW 5 in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
Skittles in North America have animal sourced gelatine in them. They don't in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Most gummy candy - gummy bears, worms, wine gums, apple-o's and the like - do. Jujubes and sour patch kids don't, though.
Many chips contain meat products. BBQ baked lays have chicken fat; onion Sun Chips contain beef. Hostess Frito Lay no longer has a list of products that contain meat, so what you should do is write your country's customer service department a quick email.
Here's an extensive list of vegan candy.
http://www.petakids.com/candy.html
Hopefully, there's something there for you! Good luck!
Edit: As for candy corn, most contain gelatine, however, I found a tub at Wal-Mart in my hometown that had no meat byproducts. Maybe you can find the same around where you live? I ate mine already, so I don't know the brand, I apologize...
2007-09-23 14:39:31 · answer #1 · answered by drusillaslittleboot 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
A lot of candy has pork or bovine geletine in it - bones/hooves/ligaments.
Soem Dorito flavours may have pork in them.
Your questinos are a bit random and you might want to approach this more methodically. About 70% of food is not suitabel for vegetarians. This includes some really bizarre items like varieties of frozen and tinned vegetables, frys/chips, buscuits, cakes, bread, yogurt, wine, beer, candy, soups, cereals....the list is endless so just identifying individual items will not work, you couldnt' keep up with the ever-changing lists.
The best way of coping with this is to learn where ingredients come from. Once you get used to it, your shopping trip takes just a few minutes longer.
The veggie society has a good set of pages to start with:
www.vegsoc.org
2007-09-24 06:58:49 · answer #2 · answered by Michael H 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Skittles have gelatin in the US but not in the UK.
Every candy corn I've seen is vegetarian but not vegan. (has eggs and honey.)
2007-09-23 22:40:52 · answer #3 · answered by nora 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many candies have gelatin, which is a slaughter by-product. You can find a list of vegetarian-friendly candies on the Peta kids website.
2007-09-23 20:39:07 · answer #4 · answered by mockingbird 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Skittles have gelatin in them, a no-no for veg*ans. I'm not sure about candy corn.
Check out Pangea (www.veganstore.com) or Vegan Essentials (www.veganessentials.com) for good vegan junk food. Or check out "Skinny *****," which has a list of vegan junk food at the back of the book.
2007-09-23 20:38:45 · answer #5 · answered by VeggieTart -- Let's Go Caps! 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't know but you have to be VERY careful with stuff like that because at my school, they put pork in our applesauce!!!!
2007-09-23 22:43:10 · answer #6 · answered by Biscuits and Groovy 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
candy is fine but doritoes may be fried in pork fat
2007-09-23 20:36:27 · answer #7 · answered by steve 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No Thanks.
2007-09-23 20:43:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋