I want to buy vegetarian marshmallows

lukekelly_2

Marshmallows are easy and fun to make and end up tasting great. This recipe has proved extremely reliable for me. You don't need a sugar thermometer although they do make it easier, just keep testing for the hard ball stage -- google will tell you how.

Scott_Yates

My wife works for a confectionary company, and she tells me that the reason you are finding it difficult to find vegarian ones in the usual high street supermarkets is because of the cost of vegetarian Gelatine. The high streets are all competing against one another, so no-one will make the jump and put a product on the shelf that is significantly more expensive than their competitiors. They have started sourcing Beef Gelatine for the muslim/kosher market, so be careful of assuming that these will be vege - check the label.

andrione1

I haven't been 'veggie' for a long time, but i didn't know that marshmallows contained animal ingredients.
i don't eat them anyway, but i will be alerted to looking for gelatin in sweets. Does anyone know if Haribo and midget gems are vegetarian?

IHateDida

andrione1 wrote: »

I haven't been 'veggie' for a long time, but i didn't know that marshmallows contained animal ingredients.
i don't eat them anyway, but i will be alerted to looking for gelatin in sweets. Does anyone know if Haribo and midget gems are vegetarian?

No they're not. But Haribo do a Kosher version that are veggie friendly. I've only ever seen these in larger Morrisons stores.

American Hard gums are ok though - no gelatin in any version I've ever come across!

kim_ley

Hi just found this thread when I was posting about this
http://www.scrumptioussweets.co.uk/product_details.asp?id=338

Rev

andrione1 wrote: »

I haven't been 'veggie' for a long time, but i didn't know that marshmallows contained animal ingredients.
i don't eat them anyway, but i will be alerted to looking for gelatin in sweets. Does anyone know if Haribo and midget gems are vegetarian?

Took me an age to figure out what I could and couldn't eat when I first went veggie. Make sure you keep an eye out for gelatin, cochineal, shellac, rennet (used in cheese and cheese flavour crisps) and I know there's loads more I'm missing out. (Sorry if you already know this, just thought I'd mention it as I struggled when first going veggie). The food industry seems obsessed with putting various bits of animal in just about everything you can imagine. Even some drinks aren't veggie because of the filtering process.

lumley

Veggie marshmallows aren't available at holland and barett ,but are available on ebay from sweetveganshop enjoy

lightisfading

Rev wrote: »

Took me an age to figure out what I could and couldn't eat when I first went veggie. Make sure you keep an eye out for gelatin, cochineal, shellac, rennet (used in cheese and cheese flavour crisps) and I know there's loads more I'm missing out. (Sorry if you already know this, just thought I'd mention it as I struggled when first going veggie). The food industry seems obsessed with putting various bits of animal in just about everything you can imagine. Even some drinks aren't veggie because of the filtering process.

Gelatine in yoghurt/desserts is the most annoying one for me (but then I can't stand cheese flavoured crisps!) ... majority of low/very low fat yoghurts have gelatine, as do other desserts like choc mousse. Does anyone know of a very low fat / fat free vanilla yoghurt sold in single servings?? (I'm on a diet, and no good with portion control!)

I think a general rule of thumb is that if a sweet is chewy (mints, gum, jelly sweets...) it's likely to have gelatine in it. I was given a piece of gum by a colleague at work the other day and found out it had beef gelatine in it (funnily enough could tell as soon as I started chewing.. the texture was different).

But yes, animal products are everywhere - including cosmetics, bath products and camera film.

If anything the word Kosher will make me even LESS likely to buy the product - kosher slaughter means the animal is bled to death - even more disgusting than usual practices.

fletty

Sweet Vegan now have there own site they do 4 diffrent types of marshmallow Vanilla, strawberry, toasted coconut and cinnamon pecan they cost £6.50 plus £2.64 p&p so rather costly for 15 -18 mouthfulls. http://sweetvegan.co.uk/store/index.php?act=viewCat&catId=2

gibby

just had some new flavour veggie marshamollws delivered today - chcocolate, toasted coconut, strawberry plus some dairy free fudge & turkish delight, from Alternative Stores.

There is no veggie gelatine in these or most veggie sweets, but normally its put into cheaper products to preserve them or to make it jelly like.
Gelatine is horrible stuff and really bad for the body to process & elimiate. Sadly it is added into alot of cheaper foods and not always labeled.

Iw ould never give it to my kids even if I wasn't veggie purley for health issues

Its really nice to see so many sweets are beining veggie these days & dairy is being dropped alot too in good products

G