[everything_is]

hi

i am extremely worried cause i have been drinking oatly (fortified) for the whole time ive been vegan and i just read something saying vitamin D isn't vegan... i feel really stupid. i've sent an email to them to ask if its vegan or not but i just wish i hadn't chosen the enriched version...if i'd gone for the standard it would have only contained oats and water and salt.

does anyone know anything about this?

 

[everything_is]

im so sorry didn't mean to post more than once

 

[Elena99]

I wouldn't worry too much about it, it's not like you were doing it on purpose, if it was in fact non-vegan vit D. Was it D3? I think that's the one that's not vegan.

 

[Eclipse]

I've heard this too..Something about vitamin d being made from brains, but that would make it non vegetarian as well.

 

[faded_amaranth]

Vitamin D3 used to fortify foods usually from sheep wool or fish livers

Vitamin D2 is usually vegan

Don't worry about what you did, you can't undo it; I drank 8th Continent for a few months before I learned that the vit D came from wool. Now I think it is vegan.

 

[everything_is]

it doesn't say which D vitamin it is....

 

[froggythefrog]

You'd need to call/write the manufacturer and ask.

BTW, Vitamin D is vital, so make sure you play out in the sun.

 

[Keelin]

There's a good chance it's vitamin D2. Few deliberately non-dairy products include D3, just because it reduces their consumer base.

But even if it was D3, don't sweat it! It's a tiny amount, in any case, and far better than many other products you could've been using.

 

[everything_is]

i have contacted the manufacturer and it was D3 derived from animal wool

so umm i'm feeling quite down about that

but at least i know not to drink it anymore

now i've just got the regular kind - just oats, water and salt in that thanks very much

no animal products