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Jan
23
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E numbers

Firstly thank you to ‘explore e numbers’ for this information. Are you a vegan who checks every label just to check there is no animal in it? Or are you just curious about what is in what you are eating and drinking? If so, here is a quick look at e-numbers, simply because it is easy to avoid products labelled with things like ‘egg’ and ‘cream’, and even ‘gelatine’...
Jan
4
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Bone China

Do you have any bone china in your cupboards? If so think hard about the words bone china because that is exactly what is it. I was spurred on to write this article after finding a bone china cup in my cupboard, left by my mother who I only just figured, brought her own cup to drink her tea from! On the bottom of the cup are those words ‘bone china’. Bone china is made with cattle bones, or the...
Nov
30
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What is Lard?

Lard is thankfully not so popular in cooking any more but many people and places still use it. So what is Lard exactly? The simple answer is that it the rendered fat of a pig, taken from around the kidneys usually although it can be made up from other parts of the pig. I remember my grandmother and my mother using lard in cooking and baking and it makes me ill just thinking about eating those end products....
Nov
9
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Pet Food

This is lovely read from Wikipedia. Meat by-products are ground and cleaned slaughtered meat carcass parts such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs, bones, heads, and intestines (and a small amount of feathers in the case of chicken meat). The terms meat by-products or animal by-products are often used in reference to the ingredients included in commercial pet foods.
Oct
22
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Worcestershire sauce

Worcestershire sauce is made from anchovies. So there’s another one getting thrown out of the fridge when I get home! The ingredients are basically anchovies in brine, tamarinds (fruit) in molasses, garlic in vinegar, chillies, shallots, cloves and sugar. The mixture sits for around two years being stirred occasionally and then drained and bottled. Doesn’t sound so nice with the veggie hot pot...
Oct
10
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Marshmallows

Marshmallows used to be made from a more natural source using the marsh mallow plant as a gelling agent. However, due to this ingredient being expensive, most companies switched to using gelatin which comes from animal bones and hides or if you prefer the wikipedia entry ‘Gelatin is a protein produced by partial hydrolysiscollagen extracted from the bones, connective tissues, organs, and some intestines...
Sep
28
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Parmesan Cheese?

Most vegetarians continue to eat cheese. Many cheeses, including most parmezan, contain rennet, the main enzyme of which is derived from the stomachs of newly slaughtered calves. So if you are a vegetarian who has been putting off the vegan option because you can’t live without cheese maybe this will help you transition.
Sep
27
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What is in wine?

You’d be surprised….Like many I thought wine was pretty much just grapes… Sugar? Yes, maybe just a bit, or maybe a good few spoonfuls giving some wines the same sugar content as jam, flavourings, egg white, milk, pesticides…? And how will you know considering wine producers do not need to list their ingredients on the bottle? I am about to research this issue and will let you know my...

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