Meat ingredients in snack foods (chips)

[Feliner]

I feel so grossed out by this, I thought I'd share. I am fully aware that natural ingredients can mean just about anything, since for whatever reason the powers that be consider things like beef natural. I try to be pretty much completely vegan & more natural these days, so the snacks on this list don't catch my eye anymore. But for those who are just vegetarian or who might not think about all those confusing ingredients in typical snack foods, this just reminds me you never know unless the item itself is labeled vegan or has very straight forward ingredient list. I found this when looking at Frito Lay's web site. We sometimes get regular Sun Chips, but this makes me not want to do that either :spew:

These snacks contain dead animal flavorings, how NASTY:

BAKED LAY’S® KC MASTERPIECE® BBQ Flavored Potato Crisps (chicken)
CHEETOS® Bacon Cheddar Artificially Flavored Crackers (pork)
DORITOS® Salsa Verde Flavored Tortilla Chips (chicken)
Maui Style Onion Flavored Potato Chips (pork)
SUNCHIPS® French Onion Flavored Multigrain Snacks (beef)

[bizarro]

oh i never thought about it. i like my junk food but lately ive only been eating those terra chips. i also recently bought some "veggie chips" from wild oats. very good. we should buy food dehydrators and make our own. thanks for the info. :bow:

[Jennifer]

The Cape Cod Brand of Potato Chips are Vegan, at least the natural one's are. One rule of thumb for me is if I cannot pronounce an ingrediant listed on the product I dont eat it. My question is why would they put chicken or beef in chips, Thats just gross :spew:

[kpickell]

You forgot my old favorite:
Chicken In A Bisquit crackers (chicken).

Though Wal-Mart's generic brand of Chicken cracker is vegetarian so I'm okay.

[Joyful-Eyes]

Interesting point which I was wondering about...
I got a bag of chips which said they were bacon flavored but nothing I could find in the ingredients to tell me anything, so
I figure it would be like bacos flavoring or something...
I didn't worry about it too much, perhaps I should have, though...
If something contained meat or meat broth, would it be listed as natural flavoring?
That shouldn't be fair...
I was thinking it was safe because it said bacon "flavor."
I guess you never know, considering the McDonald's fries...
Nice to know about the vegetarian chicken flavor crackers, though...
What do you mean generic?
Wal-mart brand or?

[Feliner]

Well no, the ones I posted were just products Frito-Lay makes and had listed. I generally make the assumption if meat is in the title, it has meat, even if it doesn't. I cut that list down to take out like 6 kinds of pork rinds they were saying had pork, I was like "duh".




You forgot my old favorite:
Chicken In A Bisquit crackers (chicken).

Though Wal-Mart's generic brand of Chicken cracker is vegetarian so I'm okay.

[bizarro]

im an idiot when it comes to cooking. i mentioned above that maybe you could make veggie chips or potato chips with a food dehydrator. i guess that wouldnt work... :doh: that would require a fryer or oven right?

i will find a recipe and post here.

[wow i'm a dog]

These snacks contain dead animal flavorings, how NASTY:

ewwww! how did you find out about that? did you contact the companies? thanks!


ps i also recently discovered that many of my (former!) favorite candies are not vegetarian, let alone vegan: skittles and starburst. here's a list (http://www.peta.org/feat/easter/baskets.html) of vegan-friendly candies!

[kristadb]

Adding - the ingredients are NOT the same in other countries. For example, some of the Lays chips that have beef flavouring in them in the US do not in Canada. If you don't live in the US, it is important to check for yourself before assuming that products made for US consumption is the same as for your own country.

[ceryna]

Luckily, the Original Baked Lays are vegan, but I think they have hydrogenated oils. :(

[eggplant]

In the rare cases I buy potato chips, I only buy ones with these ingredients: potatoes, oil (not hydrogenated), salt. Same goes for corn chips, substituting corn for potatoes, with exception of some varieties by companies like Garden of Eatin' that have natural veggie flavorings.

[Ocean]

Thanks so much for posting that, I think I've eaten one of two of those chips in the past year, and I had no idea!

[bizarro]

do the links at the bottom of this page change often? i just noticed the link for ZAPPS potato chips sold here: http://www.cajungrocer.com/ekart/catalog.asp?action=displayCategory&cid=61

they look vegetarian/vegan to me depending on the flavor.

[CharityAJO]

Oh my god, I used to eat those Chicken Biscuits, too. (What was I thinking?)

No one's mentioned LARD used in many potato chips, including what used to be my favorite, Grandma Utz's.

[froggythefrog]

Luckily, the Original Baked Lays are vegan, but I think they have hydrogenated oils. :(

What's the point of being baked?

[JennieBean]

another gross thing:

under "natural ingredients" for Heinz tomato ketchup.... they use blood. BLOOD is one of the "natural ingredients".

my friend paul told me about this, and he's really hardcore about his research.

this was upsetting, because i LOVE ketchup in LARGE amounts.

Hunt's ketchup is vegan, but what do we see in restaurants where we usually can only get salad and fries? HEINZ TOMATO KETCHUP.

sad.

[JennieBean]

I guess you never know, considering the McDonald's fries...

Burger King fries are not vegan either. their new coating has whey in it. :brood:

[kpickell]

another gross thing:

under "natural ingredients" for Heinz tomato ketchup.... they use blood. BLOOD is one of the "natural ingredients".

my friend paul told me about this, and he's really hardcore about his research.

this was upsetting, because i LOVE ketchup in LARGE amounts.

Hunt's ketchup is vegan, but what do we see in restaurants where we usually can only get salad and fries? HEINZ TOMATO KETCHUP.

sad.

Not true according to Heinz. They've denied the blood rumors, and this is found on their FAQ page:

Where can I find out what ingredients are in my favorite Heinz products?
"A full list of ingredients is included in the ingredient statement on the product label. "Natural flavoring" refers to herbs and spices that are derived solely from plant sources."
Does Heinz ketchup contain animal products?
"Heinz Ketchup has never contained any animal products. In addition, the FDA has set a standard of identity for ketchup that does not permit the use of any animal products. Any deviation from this standard of identity would mean that the product could no longer be called ketchup nor sold legally under the name ketchup."

[kpickell]

Burger King fries are not vegan either. their new coating has whey in it. :brood:

Hmm. Where'd you learn this? Their website doesn't list whey as ingredient.
http://www.burgerking.com/Food/Nutrition/ingredients.aspx

Also, on their History of Burger King page it says: "In 1990, BURGER KING® switched to cooking french fries in 100% vegetable shortening that does not contain common allergens such as whey and gluten."