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GeneHrsy
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 Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 5:34 pm Post subject: Vegetarian Cuisine |
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Are Gummy Bears and Gummy Worms considered Vegetarian food? 
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Inedible
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Check the ingredients. I think you will find gelatin.
| http://www.ivu.org/faq/gelatine.html wrote: | | Gelatin (US spelling) or gelatine (British spelling) (used to make Jell-o and other desserts) is made from the boiled bones, skins and tendons of animals. An alternative substance is called Agar-Agar, which is derived from seaweed. Another is made from the root of the Kuzu. Agar-Agar is sold in noodle-like strands, in powdered form, or in long blocks, and is usually white-ish in color. |
It isn't meat, but you will have to decide for yourself. Personally I gave up on avoiding gelatin because for some reason it seems to be an ingredient in so many vitamin, mineral, and herbal pills.
| http://inventors.about.com/od/gstartinventions/a/gummi.htm wrote: | | According to Black Forest (This is supposed to link to http://www.ferrarapan.com/) the makers of assorted gummies, "gummi candies are a blend of corn starch, corn syrup, sugar, gelatin, color, and flavor." The ingredients are weighed, mixed, and pumped into a special candy cooker that Black Forest uses, a 128 foot long stainless steel coil that cooks the candy by steam outside of the coil. Then the cooker pumps the gummi into a vacuum chamber to remove excess moisture. From the vacuum chamber the gummi moves on to a mix station where colors, flavors, acids, and fruit concentrates are mixed into the gummi stock. Next, the Mogul, a starch moulding machine pumps the gummi stock into starch filled mould boards that shape the gummi candies. After curing, the gummies are removed from the moulds, packaged, delivered, and sold. |
I used bold text for the word gelatin. It was not originally in the section I quoted, and neither was the reference to Black Forest being a link to their site.
There is some good news:
http://store.veganessentials.com/organic-vegan-gummi-bears-p954.aspx
They sell a "gummy" candy that looks like it may actually be good for you ...
| Quote: | Delicious chewy "gummy"-style organic candies with natural fruit flavors. Gelatin and refined sugar-free. Each 3.5 oz box contains 4 separate inner snack bags. Available in Classic or Super Sour. $3.39 per box.
Ingredients: Organic corn Malt Syrup, organic dehydrated cane juice, organic fruit and vegetable juice concentrates (lemon, apple, red beet, apricot, carrot), organic spinach powder, apple pectin, citric acid, natural fruit flavors, carnauba wax (from palm trees, original bears only), organic expeller pressed sunflower oil (original bears only)
Nutritional Information:
Servings per container – 4
Calories per serving – 80
Total Fat – 0g
Sodium – 15mg
Total carbohydrate – 22g (18g sugars)
Protein – 0g |
other than being so high in sugar.
Also, it looks like at http://www.easyfunschool.com/article1514.html there are instructions for using packets of jello with minimal water added to make your own "gummy" candy - but it isn't clear to me where you would get the molds to form bears or worms.
For the record I do know that this was thread supposed to be a joke about the shapes of the candies, and I just hijacked it. |
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GeneHrsy
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Thanks 
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