Calcium fortified Juices

[Shamandura]

I am slowly trying to become vegan and in the process I am trying to weed out my usual shopping cart items.
I've been buying Minute Maid Calcium + Vitamin D orange juice, for a while now. I was reading the ingredients which contain calcium phosphate and calcium lactate. I was wondering how one is to know if these sort of fortified drinks/foods are animal derived?

Theres lots of ingredients out there that not all brands list their origin(plant/animal). I don't have a whole lot of options when it comes to sticking to trusted health foods that don't use animal ingredients, since my area is limited. So, I have to make due with the commercialized brands till we get more than one health food store.

There's just alot of potentially bad ingredients....errr...so frustrating:furious:

[chryssiie718]

I am pretty sure anything with plus D is D3 which is not even vegetarian since it comes from fish oil or lanolin (sheep). Check your ingredients here:
http://www.vrg.org/nutshell/faqingredients.htm

[Shamandura]

Do you know if that applies to multivitamins?

I know you can get D3 from sunexposure, but do we need more than that?

[Jeremy]

We take a vegan certified multivitamin. It's called Veg-Life Multi One... The only thing it's missing is iron.

[Shamandura]

We take a vegan certified multivitamin. It's called Veg-Life Multi One... The only thing it's missing is iron.

The multivitamin I am taking is by Naturally Preferred. Most of the ingredients on the back list as a vegetable source, but I don't believe it is totally vegan.

Thanks for mentioning one, I don't like buying ones I have never heard of. Especially those effy ones people on eBay try to sell as total vegan health capsules.

[Mrrple]

I know you can get D3 from sunexposure, but do we need more than that?

You need 15 minutes of sun exposure a day. But most places, you can't get vitamin D all year 'round. In the Winter time, it's near impossible. That's why many people in the upper US and the Pacific northwest are deficient in vitamin D.

[leminchyl]

i never did like drinks fortified with calcium. if you leave it in the fridge too long, it congeals into one big ball of calcium floating in orange juice.

[IamJen]

D3 can be vegan/synthetic, supposedly. Tropicana fortifies their juice with D3, and they swear it's suitable for vegans. There are several threads here on the subject. I emailed them back in like 2003 or 2004 and they said it was NOT vegan, but later, another member or two received a different answer.

It also makes a difference as to what country you're in, I think. I know that the calcium sources for American orange juice and Canadian varieties, of the same brand, are often not the same, for example.

[Fromper]

Do you know if that applies to multivitamins?

I know you can get D3 from sunexposure, but do we need more than that?

I drink fortified soy milk. I generally stick to Silk brand, but I've never heard of a non-vegan brand.

--Fromper
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