Product Description

An easy-to-use, concise reference for vegans, the health-conscious and merely curious which documents thousands of animal and animal-derived ingredients. Thoroughly researched using PETA, the Vegan Society & the manufacturers themselves, this guide demystifies postage stamps, maple syrup, teas, chewing gums and the ever confusing world of ciders.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1138040 in Books
• Published on: 2001-07-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 92 pages

Customer Reviews

Some false information.
Now, most of the book is fairly accurate, but for ANYONE who has ever studied organic chemistry or the basics of it, you will notice the false "animal" derived chemicals in the books. Such as a monodiglyceride. Let's break the word down, mono = single , di = 2 , glyceride = glycerol chain. That makes a monodiglyceride a single connected pair of glycerol chains which ONLY found in vegetables. Tri-glycerols are found in any animal. And the use of animal fat as a preservative would produce the opposite effect and I highly doubt any conglomerate would want that.

SHOCKING TRUTH!!!
Being a vegetarian for nine years I thought I knew what ingredients to look for. This book was a shocking truth to exactly what I didn't know what was in my food. The shocking truth about what gelatin is...... you wouldn't think pudding, gummy bears, and other sweet items contain this hidden ingredient. Gelatin is protein obtained by boiling skin, tendons, ligaments, or bones with water from cattle and hogs.

This word defined along with many other words that comes from animals are in this book.
I loved how the book is layed out in a guidelined setting. IF you
wonder like I did about what your eating vegetarian or not this book is a great book to have.

Detinately a book to pick up
An excellent and very informative resource for any vegan, vegetarian or anyone who's concerned about what exactly it is you're actually eating.

I'm an ovo-lacto vegetarian myself and I was surprised at how many things they sneakily put into our food. I was aware of some of the more obvious things (renet, gelatin, etc.), but still stunned at things I would have never thought could contain animal products - such as beer, wine, some waxes used to polish fruits to make them look more fresh - it's astounding!

The only contention I have with this book is that it focuses mainly on American products, being written in the States it makes sense, but for a future edition I would love to see more Canadian and maybe European products added to the book.

Extremely well researched, using a variety of sources (which can be found at the end of the book) - definately a book to pick up.