Sweets/Biscuits Vegitarian?

roddydogs

Can I assume that sweets and biscuits (or any manufactured food) that Dosent have the "Suitable for Vegetarians" V on it , are Not vegetarian? ie Kit Kat Chunky?

kerrirobberts

As far as I know kitkat chunky have chocolate and wafer in them. Check the ingredients. My OH is veggie and he eats kitkat chunkys so I assume they're fine. Gelatin is the big one with sweets

adouglasmhor

roddydogs wrote: »

Can I assume that sweets and biscuits (or any manufactured food) that Dosent have the "Suitable for Vegetarians" V on it , are Not vegetarian? ie Kit Kat Chunky?

No you just have to read the ingriedients, Kit Kats have whey which may or may not be suitable depending if it used animal rennet in production. Ruffle bars are vegan but never have a V on them.

Here is a list from a Halal site run by Muslims which seems up to date. Last year.
http://www.halalfoodauthority.com/articles-vegiterian-nestle.html

At one point (2006) they were using renneted whey but seem to have stopped.

roddydogs

Exactly my point............I dont want to examine every product for the ingredients, and how would I know if the "Whey" has animal rennet.?
Halal is a method of cruel killing, cant see what its got to do with Vegetarianism.
Why put "Halal approved" if theirs no animal products in it anyway?

adouglasmhor

roddydogs wrote: »

Exactly my point............I dont want to examine every product for the ingredients, and how would I know if the "Whey" has animal rennet.?
Halal is a method of cruel killing, cant see what its got to do with Vegetarianism.
Why put "Halal approved" if theirs no animal products in it anyway? TO LET PEOPLE KNOW IT HAS NO ANIMAL PRODUCTS PERHAPS

Halal is a dietary code - which also includes the method of killing -which in it's day was more humane than what had gone before, it covers a few other things as well. Like if a dog has touched food with it's saliva it is unclean etc. Some Muslims are veggie to, it's not compulsory to eat meat.

daffodiltulip

roddydogs wrote: »

Exactly my point............I dont want to examine every product for the ingredients, and how would I know if the "Whey" has animal rennet.?
Halal is a method of cruel killing, cant see what its got to do with Vegetarianism.
Why put "Halal approved" if theirs no animal products in it anyway?

There is a "food suitable for vegetarians" section.

miss_independent

My Dad has to eat halal and sticks to a pretty much vegetarian diet. I know in Westfield one of the pick and mix sweet stalls was all halal because of being geletain free etc so a lot of the time halal sweets and biscuits are also vegetarian (but not always vegan however). I was delighted to discover recently that you can buy veggie Percy Pigs in M&S - they have green ears!

minxie

If any veggies out there know of vegitarian marshmallows, a big ask I know, that would be great. My son misses them in his hot choccie, since becoming a veggie

Doom_and_Gloom

Marshmellow - http://sweetvegan.co.uk/store/index.php?act=viewCat&catId=2
http://www.veganstore.co.uk/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=1&Product_Code=087&Category_Code=520
http://www.veganstore.co.uk/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=1&Product_Code=76&Category_Code=520

miss_independent

minxie wrote: »

If any veggies out there know of vegitarian marshmallows, a big ask I know, that would be great. My son misses them in his hot choccie, since becoming a veggie

Haven't tried them myself but there are some here;

http://sweetvegan.co.uk/store/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=23

They even do different flavours!

and you can also make your own

http://www.ivillage.co.uk/vegetarian-marshmallows/78441?field_pages=1

miss_independent

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

Marshmellow - http://sweetvegan.co.uk/store/index.php?act=viewCat&catId=2
http://www.veganstore.co.uk/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=1&Product_Code=087&Category_Code=520
http://www.veganstore.co.uk/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=1&Product_Code=76&Category_Code=520

Ahh, you beat me to it ,