Well, bits of dead animal, actually. Most of them have it. They call it gelatine, and pretend there is no alternative.
Well, WeightWatchers' citrus yogurts used to use an alternative. I would eat them quite often. I didn't bother to check the ingredients list, or look for the Suitable For Vegetarians logo, when I bought some last week. It was only after I'd eaten one that I realised the logo was gone, and that these yogurts now contained either pigs' feet or calves' hooves. Or maybe a mixture of both. Strangely, they don't specify.
Needless to say, I felt sick. I've been a vegetarian since 1976.The rest are now in the bin, and WeightWatchers is a brand I won't be buying again.
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I'm not a vegetarian but I just looked at what you are talking about on the internet. I had no idea that that's where gelatin came from. Makes all those times I ate Jell-O or gummy worms turn my stomach. The research also says that you are still technically a vegetarian if you haven't eaten animal flesh.
It's amazing how the food industry slips that stuff in. I haven't eaten jello in a long time but I do eat yogurt every day and it didn't occur to me that gelatine was in it. I do know that the red food colouring comes from some kind of beetle *shudder*
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!! I feel icky!
I'm vegetarian too and I never eat yogurts because of gelatin. I eat nothing with gelatin. Yuck !
ICKKKKK!!
I don't care about other people's technicalities, Nantz, I don't want to eat bits of dead animal.
Some yogurts are OK, JoJo, it's always worth checking the label. All sorts of desserts have gelatine in, yet strangely I always manage to find enough to take home with me... The beetle is the cochineal beetle, and the poor little thing has to have the life crushed out of it.
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