Friday, July 1, 2011

Oreos are vegan?!




...yes. Interestingly enough, there are a myriad of foods we would assume aren't vegan that actually are. I recently attended a meeting where Oreos were passed around and, sweet-tooth never failing me,  I grabbed one. Someone said, "Wait, I thought you were vegan!" with a Ha!-I've-caught-you-red-handed tone of voice.  I told the person to check out the ingredients - not an animal product in sight. The person was shocked...and then a little weirded out that the cream middle of the cookie contains no dairy products at all. Chuckle chuckle.

A while back PETA wrote an article called Accidentally Vegan and listed foods that are vegan without even trying. Below are some of the foods from that list that I found particularly amusing/shocking/strange. Although these foods are vegan, the majority are hella bad for you, so don't get excited and go running out to buy all this stuff - moderation's the ticket! But if you're out somewhere and need a snack, there may be a vegan option lurking right there on the shelf in front of you. Or if you're struggling with bacon cravings (personally, I think the stuff is gross), pour some bacon bits onto your salad. Enjoy the list and check out PETA's article for more!

-Oreos
-Cocoa Puffs
-Nestle Nesquik Chocolate & Strawberry Syrups
-Entenmann's Fudge Delights Fudge & Mint Cookies
-Food Lion Animal Cookies
-Barbeque Fritos
-Keebler Club Crackers
-Kellogg's Unfrosted Blueberry Poptarts
-Nabisco Nutter Butter Sandwich Cookies
-Nabisco Teddy Grahams
-Sun Chips - Original Flavor
-Town House Original Crackers
-Betty Crocker Bacon Bits
-Kraft Creamy Italian Dressing
-Smucker's Marshmallow Icecream Topping
-Krispy Creme Apple Fruit Pies
-Mrs. Smith's Peach Pie Slices


4 comments:

  1. Ha, that's great! The clear winner is the Bacon bits, But it's a little scary to me that only the blueberry unfrosted Pop Tarts are vegan....what's in the strawberry filling??

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  2. There are a few other plain poptart flavors that are vegan - I just picked one. If you click the link to the PETA article you can find the rest...I think it was also brown sugar and either cherry or strawberry.

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  3. Sadly oreos in the UK aren't even vegetarian... they have some byproduct of veal (animal rennet) in the chocolate, as is the case w/ a lot of chocolate over here. So depressing! I'm not a vegetarian but I was so disgusted by the concept of animal rennet I'm off British oreos now :(

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  4. How strange that they make them differently there. Chocolate tastes just fine without animal products in it, especially veal!

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