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Is Cheese Vegetarian? The Rennet Question
Not always. Some cheese is made using rennet, an enzyme traditionally taken from the stomach lining of slaughtered calves. Most…
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What Are Mono- and Diglycerides? And Are They Vegan?
Mono- and diglycerides are emulsifiers — they stop oil and water separating. They can be made from plant oils or…
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Is Sugar Vegan?
Sometimes. Beet sugar, certified organic sugar, and unrefined sugars are vegan. Some refined cane sugar is decolourized using bone char…
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Is Your Sugar Vegan? Why Nobody Can Tell You From the Label
Sugar is the clearest example of the problem this blog keeps returning to: an animal-derived material used in production, absent…
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Sauces, Seasonings, and Snacks: Where Animal Ingredients Hide in Savoury Food
Most people know Worcestershire sauce contains anchovy. It’s the standard example, it’s usually declared, and it’s not actually the problem.…
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Bakery and Confectionery: The Hardest Category to Read a Label On
Baked goods and confectionery carry more animal-derived risk per ingredient than almost any other category, and less of it appears…
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How to Read a Canadian Ingredient Label as a Vegan
Reading an ingredient panel carefully will catch most animal-derived ingredients. It won’t catch all of them, and knowing which is…
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“Vegan” Is Not a Regulated Term in Canada. Here’s What That Means for Your Label.
If you put “organic” on a package in Canada, you’re making a regulated claim. There’s a federal standard behind it,…
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