I developed a little sarcastic voice in my head that says “no whey” every time I find the smidge of dairy
When they make cheese, the more solid curds are separated from the more liquid whey. The harder the cheese, the more whey was pulled out. There is lots and lots of cheese made around the world, so there’s lots and lots of whey created, and so it’s a relatively cheap substance to get ahold of. Dried out, it’s usually called “milk solids” (though that phrase can be used for other forms of dried out milk)
So yeah, it gets added to all sorts of things to make them taste milkier or sweeter. The thing is, the lactose in milk mostly ends up in the whey, not in the curds, so this really messes up people who are lactose intolerant. Lots of things end up having a high lactose content that you wouldn’t normally expect to. Someone told me that KitKat bars have lots of it, though I haven’t verified that.
example - I bought some instant oatmeal with added protein. It had pea protein which was fine. Next time i bought another brand because the first one wasn’t available. Whey protein. Cue unhappy stomach noises.
i’m disabled and i have a lot of food allergies / sensitivities. my insurance is trying to have me get home delivered meals i can just microwave when im not well enough to do anything else.
i’m allergic to soy and coconut… the meal company has almost nothing i can eat. like maybe 3 meals.
the hamburger - not a veggie burger, actual meat - contains soy. the meat patty… contains soy. not “may contain,” actual soy protein is an ingredient of the meat patty alongside the meat.
the mac and cheese contains coconut… it’s not vegan mac and cheese. but it contains coconut
like why do they do this. do not the unnecessary ingredients
Just the other day I saw the frozen hamburger patties in the supermarket were made with 62% soy, then meat
Cost cutting measures…
Carnists won’t even know when the vegan nation attacks. They’ll already be eating their soy patties and drinking their soy milk.
It will be utter veganity.
Just yesterday I was in a health food store examining the ingredient list on a bag of popcorn.
“Natural butter flavoring.” No source listed, hmm…
Allergen alert, “Processed on equipment used by dairy.” Okay, that’s not a dealbreaker.
But the thing that made me put the bag back on the shelf was the fact that other products by that brand (which I can’t recall the name of right now) made notes on the packaging when they were vegan. The one I was looking at just said “gluten-free.” I figure that if the company wants to put little symbols showing when things are gluten-free, allergen-free, vegan, etc., they probably would do so with everything that fits the criteria, right? To appeal to more customers? The fact that it didn’t specifically say it was vegan, even though other products did, made me suspicious.
I’m in the US, our laws concerning labeling the source of food additives suck. I can’t imagine why the company would’ve omitted explicitly saying the product was vegan if that was the case, so I erred on the side of caution. I ended up getting Hippeas and Vegan Rob’s puffs instead.
Lol I wasn’t just reading a label that said “may contain milk”
I don’t understand industrial food production
In short: The same facility produces something with milk and worker may carry some over on gloves, in mouth or similiar. Also, there simply may be splash damage included between lines.
So to avoid any and all accusations they add note “may contain <allergen>”
Somebody’s about to get Scott Pilgrimed
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When I tried be vegan (for about a decade), I never managed to give up ghee.
Why? As in you find it in everything? I’m in north India and the only food I regularly find ghee in is sweets.
I make my own ghee. Found it essential for my many ailments. Tremendously beneficial for my dosha (vata prakruti). I put it in “everything”. ;)
