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Natural Flavorings
There are no laws requiring the disclosure of meat as an ingredient on food labels. Companies often use the term natural flavors, which can mean almost anything. Meat must be mentioned on a food label if it is a stand-alone ingredient (as tuna fish or chicken or beef stocks). Companies cite "proprietary reasons" to avoid disclosing whether their natural flavors contain meat. Many companies do not put the word "animal" on the ingredient label in order to not lose customers.

Letters to Supriya Kelkar
From food companies in answer to her questions about what products contain meat-ingredients

Supriya Kelkar checked with several companies to see which of their products are vegetarian and animals-free. Below are some letters sent by food companies to her in reference to animal ingredients in their products.

Lipton
SideKicks Broccoli and White Cheddar Pasta Mix, which contains among it ingredients listed on the package: pasta, salt, cornstarch, cheddar and blue cheese, whey, broccoli, MSG, spices, yeast extract, maltodextrin, and natural flavors.

Supriya called the 800 number of Lipton s customer service to ask if the product contained meat as one of its "natural flavors." She was told by a representative that it was safe to assume that it did. Two months later, she received a reply from Warren Blume, a spokesperson for Lipton s parent company, Unilever Bestfoods:

Hi Supriya,
Unilever Bestfoods takes great care to be certain that the ingredient statements of all of our products are accurately labeled and are in full regulatory compliance as outlined by the FDA/USDA guidelines.
However, because so many of our consumers are vegetarians, we want to be able to assure those consumers that each and every product on the grocers shelf is animal-origin free, or there exists the possibility that they are not animal-origin free. We create all our products to meet exacting standards for quality, flavor, and value. Our product formulations are always subject to change. Products are reevaluated on a regular basis and we are always aware that preferences differ.

As a result, due to this possible reformulation of our products from time to time, we cannot always guarantee that the ingredients are dairy, meat & egg free. In speaking with our consumers, a majority of people found this to be an acceptable solution.

Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts.
Warren L. Blume Unilever Bestfoods Consumer Services

Campbell Soup Company
This is Supriya’s response to questions to Campbell Soup Company.

Supriya Kelkar, we received your message and appreciate your taking the time to contact Campbell Soup Company about our Prego Pasta Sauce.

Because product ingredients change frequently, we cannot maintain current lists of products which lack certain ingredients.

However, the following products are considered vegetarian:

• Campbell's Tomato Juice
• Pace Picante Sauce
• Pace Thick & Chunky Salsa
• R&W Vegetarian Vegetable Soup
• Soup At Hand Classic Tomato Soup
• Swanson Vegetable Broth
• V8 Juice
• V8 Splash Juice

We hope this information is helpful to you. We appreciate feedback like yours because it helps us become aware of consumer preferences and concerns. We have forwarded your concerns to our Quality Management Team so they may benefit from your input.

Thank you for visiting the Campbell Soup web-site.
Campbell Soup Web Team

Health Food Companies Being Bought Up
The sale of organic food has been increasing by 20 percent per year for the past 10 years and sold over $11 billion worth of organic products in 2004. It is the fastest growing segment of the food industry.

Because of this many of the organic and vegetarian health food manufacturers are being bought up by major food companies, many of which deal in genetically modified foods, meat processing and supplying or cigarettes.

Often the label of these acquired health food companies do not say who actually owns the company. On Terra Chips package in very small print it states that Terra is a division of Hain Celestial (whose brands also include Westbrae and Health Valley), which is partially owned by Heinz. Cascadian Farm and Muir Glen products are distributed by Small Planet Foods and Small Planet is owned by General Mills.

In 2000, Kraft Foods who is owned by tobacco giant Philip Morris purchased the vegetarian Boca Burger line. Kraft also sells Oscar Meyer hot dogs.

Responsible Shopper contains a list of companies and whether they are responsible companies and if not what they have done that is irresponsible (http://www.responsibleshopper.org).

Some of the purchased health food companies and who acquired them is listed below.

Company	True Owner
Brown Cow	Stonyfield & Part owned by Danone
Earth Best Baby Food	Heinz
Arrowhead Mills	Heinz
Hain Pure Food	Heinz
Terra Chips	Heinz
Garden of Eatin¹	Heinz
Westsoy	Heinz
Millstone Organic Coffee	Proctor and Gamble
Nature¹s Farm Chicken	Tyson
Cascadian Farms	General Mills
Muir Glen	General Mills
Knudsen Juices	Smuckers
Odwalla	Coca-Cola

Orange Juice
Minute Maid orange juice contains D3 derived from lanolin (usually an animal source). The vitamin D3 found in Tropicana is a synthetic powder and is the same form that is added to milk. Their source of vitamin D is not derived from an animal and the product is kosher certified.

Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that aids in the absorption of calcium and phosphorus from food. Vitamin D raises the blood levels of calcium and phosphorus and is part of a large group of bone-making and bone-maintaining nutrients and other compounds. Some vitamin D is made in the body when skin is exposed to sunlight.

Yves Veggie Cuisine
Yves Veggie Cuisine just added a few non-vegan products to their line Veggie Authentic Burger, the Savory Veggie Burger (cheddar cheese), and the Veggie Good Dog, so you may want to check the ingredients of these products before purchasing them.

The Yves labels now state that their products are produced in a factory where egg products are manufactured.

Burger King Veggie Burgers
Now contain egg whites. Previously the veggie burger paddy was vegan. Also this burger is often cooked on the same grill as meat burgers.

Cochineal or Carmine
Cochineal (also called carmine or carminic acid) is a red dye that is made from the crushed female and unhatched larva of the cochineal beetle. These insects live on prickly pear cactus plants in Peru, the Canary Islands and other places. These bugs eat the red cactus berries and the red color accumulates in them. Carmine is a more concentrated coloring made from cochineal. The insects are ground up and are used in red, pink and purple processed foods.

Cochineal is used to give color to candy, ice cream, fruit bars, yogurt, bright red maraschino cherries, jams, pills, lipstick, fruit fillings, blushes, eye shadows, vitamins and juice drinks. I would be extremely careful and any strawberry product that is colored by natural colorings. They may be declared on labels as "natural coloring" or "color added."

Because the red artificial dyes 2 and 40 are both believed to be carcinogenic, cochineal is often used as a safe food dye in natural products. In the past several years, doctors from around the world have proven that these artificial red food colorings can cause allergic reactions, including sneezing, asthma, and who knows what.

Some products that get their red color from cochineal (carmines) are:

• Dannon Strawberry Yogurts
• Ocean Spray Pink-Grapefruit Juice Drink
• Tropicana Pure Premium Orange-Strawberry Juice
• Tropicana Season's Ruby Red Grapefruit Juice.

Lecithin
Previously eggs were the main source of lecithin used in processed foods Now more often than not soybean is used to produce lecithin. Because of its high lecithin content, egg yolk is still used today to produce mayonnaise and other products.

Vegetarian Products by Brand Name in England
A good England site to check is IsItVeggie.com (http://www.isitveggie.com). This site tells whether many of the products found in the UK are vegan or vegetarian.

Some Products You May Be Interested In
In their questions and answer section Heinz states that there are no meat products in their catsup and that any natural favoring in any of their catsup come from a vegetarian source.

Wrigley's gum contains a vegetarian source of glycerin, but some of the other gums contain animal-derived glycerin.

Caesar salad dressing often contains anchovy and raw eggs, and Caesar dressing usually means containing anchovies and eggs to thicken it.

When I contacted Kraft about animal rennet in their cheese, they told me that the only cheeses that do not contain animal rennet are Kraft Swiss Cheese and Philadelphia Brand Cream Cheeses.

Prego does not make a single vegetarian pasta sauce, Campbell's, the parent company of Prego, makes only two vegetarian soups, out of its numerous lines of soup. Meat ingredients are often listed as “natural flavors.”

Cane (Sucrose)
Animal bones are often used as a filter while processing sugar. Florida Crystal Sugar and Jack Frost Sugar are not processed with animal bones. In the UK, Tate and Lyle and Billingtons sugars are free of animal substances. British Sugar, trading as Silver Spoon state that their white sugar is vegan but they don t guarantee the brown sugars they receive was not processed with some bone charcoal by their suppliers.

Maple Syrup
Most maple syrups do not usually use any animal products to process them at the present time. Holsum, Spring Tree and Maple Groves do not use animal-derived products to process their maple syrup.

Olestra, An Ingredient to Look Out For
Olestra (Olean, Max) is a fake fat that is not vegan that may be found in potato chips and other such products.

Frito-Lay Products
Anyone wanting further information about Frito-Lay's products can contact their Consumer Affairs Department at 1-800-352-4477. The Frito-Lay products listed below contain animal products (this may be meat, eggs or milk).

• Baked Lay's KC Masterpiece BBQ Potato Chips
• Baken-Ets Hot 'N Spicy Cracklins
• Baken-Ets Regular Cracklins
• Doritos Extremes Zesty Sour Cream & Cheddar Tortilla Chips
• Doritos Salsa Verde Tortilla Chips
• Grandma's Molasses Big Cookies
• Maui Style Onion Potato Chips
• Ruffles Big BBQ & Cheddar Flavor Rush Potato Chips
• Sunchips French Onion Multigrain Snacks

Lay’s baked KC Masterpiece Chips contains chicken fat. The enzymes used in the cheese-making process of Lay s products are usually microbial enzymes that are produced in a lab for use in food.

European Numbers
Most ice creams contain E471 or egg. Igloo, Kimo and Nestle are some brands which are often vegetarian. Most chocolates contain E322 & Lecithin. Some brands clearly specify that the soya lecithin in them comes from a vegetarian source such as Kit Kat.

Gelatin and Foods That Contain Gelatin
Gelatin is boiled animal skin, tendons, ligaments or bones, Gelatin is used to make many products. Beside food products gelatin is also used to make photography film, which is a good reason to use a digital camera.

Kosher gelatin can be made with fish bones or cow skins, but it can still be considered kosher when it is mixed with dairy products. The bones and hides used in gelatin production are considered pareve. The general meaning of pareve refers to foods that are neither milk nor meat. Since the gelatin ingredients are derived from hides or bones and are not the flesh of an animal and also because gelatin has been significantly changed, it is considered to be pareve Kosher, and therefore can be mixed with dairy products.

Halal gelatin means that the animal that the gelatin came from was killed according to Islamic law, so Halal gelatin may not be vegetarian.

An alternative substance to animal gelatin is Agar-Agar, which is sold in noodle-like strands, in powdered form, or in blocks. It is usually white-ish in color. Some products that are vegetarian that have the same properties as gelatin are: Cellulose (Amid), Agar-Agar (derived from seaweed), Biobin, Guar, Xanthan, Carob fruit and the root of the Kuzu.

In our correspondence with Yoplait-Colombo they state that the gelatin in our yogurt is from an animal source. They were helpful and honest in their dealings. There is gelatin is the Yoplait products but not usually in their Colombo yogurt products.

Some products that contain gelatin and are therefore not suitable for vegetarian are:

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General Mills Lucky Charms
Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats
Kellogg's Cinnamon Marshmallow Scooby-Doo
Kellogg's Magix
Kellogg's Smorz
Trader Joe's Frosted Mini-Wheats

Yogurts
Dannon
Yoplait
Mountain Dairy

Margarine
Promise

Energy Bars
Advantage Carb Control Nutrition Bar
Carb Solutions High Protein Bar
Odyssey Triple Layer Protein Bar

Baked Goods
Sara Lee French Cheesecake
Nabisco Devil's Food SnackWells

Candies
Black Forest Gummy Bears
Snak Club Apple and Peach Rings
Creme Savers Soft Candy
Brach's Fruit Ripples
Junior Mints
Jell-o Pudding Bars
Jellie Beans
Jell-o
Almost all marshmallows

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