Hidden Sources of Animal and Milk Products
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Hidden Sources of Animal and Milk Products
As promised, in this blog I will give you a list of hidden sources of milk and flesh products. For those very sensitive to even small amount of animal products, it will be helpful to know the language of ingredient labeling to know what ingredients contain milk and animal products without saying such in common terms. This is not an exhaustive list, as new products are continuously being produced, and the refuse portions of animal/fish/poultry are finding their way more and more into our food. Even bugs and worms have made it into manufactured food. Feel free to downloaded the attached PDF below this blog.
Hidden Milk Ingredients: | Hidden Flesh Ingredients: |
Artificial Butter Flavor Butter Butter fat or butter oil Buttermilk Casein, casinates (calcium, phosphorus, sodium, etc.) Cheese, cottage cheese, curds, Cream, half & half, condensed milk Custard, pudding Dried and Evaporated milk Ghee Goat’s milk Half & half Honey butter or other seasoned butter Hydrolysates (casein, milk protein, protein, whey, whey protein) Kefir Koumiss Lactalbumin, lactalbumin phosphate Lactoglobulin Lactose, lactulose, Lactaid Milk (chocolate, condensed, derivative, powder, dry, evaporated, low fat, malted, milk fat, milk protein, non fat, skim, milk solids, whole, etc.) Non-dairy creamer Nougat Paneer Pudding Rennet, rennet casein, Sour cream, sour cream solids Sour milk solids Whey (delactosed, demineralized, sweet whey, whey protein concentrate) Yogurt | Albumin Anchovy, Worchester sauce Aspic Bone Char (used to make sugar white) Carmine/Cochineal/Carminic Acid (bug) Castoreum Chitin Dough conditioner Flavor enhancers Gelatin Isinglass (fish) L-cysteine Laolin (sheep) Lard Lecithin Mono- and diglycerides (usually pig) Natural flavors Protein concentrates Rennet |
Products that Frequently Contain Milk or Dairy | Products that Frequently Contain Hidden Animal/Fish/Poultry Ingredients |
Breads Butter substitutes Chocolate Confectionary products Deli meat Flavorings (natural and artificial) High protein flour Hot Dogs Luncheon Meat Margarines and butter substitutes Non-dairy creamers Chips and other snack foods Simplesse Sausage Starter Distillate Sourdough Tortillas | Beer Chewing gum Cosmetics Gelatin (found in candies, gummies, gelatin desserts, marshmallows, soups, sauces, capsules, and many other products) Wine Worchester sauce |
Cautions and Tips: | Caution and Tips: |
“Deli” meats slicers are often used to cut both meat and cheese. Some deli meats contain milk. | Purchasing and using only single ingredient whole plant foods will ensure you are not getting any animal products. |
A product labeled Parve or Pareve or with “circled U” symbol (with no other letters or symbols) is certified dairy-free and meat-free. | A product labeled Parve or Pareve or with “circled U” symbol (with no other letters or symbols) is certified dairy-free and meat-free. |
A product labeled with “D” or “DE” next to a circled “K” or “U” may indicate diary is in the product. | A product labeled with “D” or “DE” next to a circled “K” or “U” may indicate diary is in the product. |
May you enjoy some healthy digestion, avoid the animal products that do not agree with you.
Blue Skies,
Dana West, RD, LD, DIPACLM
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