Alanine or Amino Acids: The building blocks of protein in all animals & plans. Make sure they are plant derived.
Albumen or Albumin: Found in eggs, milk, muscles, blood & many vegetable tissues & fluids. May cause allergic reaction. In cakes, cookies, candies, & some wines.
Ambergris: Fro whale intestines. Used as a flavoring in food & beverages.
Aminosuccinate Acid or Aspartic Acid: Can be animal or plant source (e.g., molasses)
Arachidyl proprionate: A wax that can be from animal fat. Alternatives are peanut or vegetable oil.
Artificial Color, FD & C food color: Derived from coal-tar. Can contain trace amounts of lead & arsenic. Potentially carcinogenic. Alternatives: coloring from grapes, beets, tumeric, saffron, carrots, chlorophyll, annatto, alkanet.
Beta carotene, provitamin A: A pigment found in many animal tissues & in all plants. Used in the manufacturing of Vitamin A. Make sure it is derived from plant sources.
Bone Meal: Crushed or ground animal bones. In some vitamins & supplements of calcium.
Butylated Hhydroxyanisole (BHA), butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT): An antioxidant and/or preservative commonly found in baked goods, canned items, powered soups, bacon, foods containing artificial colors or flavors. Can cause cancer, birth defects & infertility.
Carmine, cochineal, carminic Acid: Red pigment from the crushed femaile cochineal insect. Reportedly, 70,000 beetles must be killed to produce one pund of this red dye. Used in red applesauce & ther foods (including red lollipops & food coloring). May cause allergic reaction.
Casein, caseinate, sodium caseinate: Milk protein found in dairy products, as well as "non-dairy" creamers, & soy sheese.
Cysteine, L-form: An amino acid from hair, which can come from animals. Used in some bakery products.
Cystine: An amino acids found in urine & hoursehair. Used as a nutritional supplement.
Duodenum substances: From the digestive tracts of cows & pigs. Added to some vitamin tablets.
Fatty Acids: Can be one or any mixture of liquid & solid acids such as caprylic, myristic, oleic, palmtic, & stearic. Alternatives: vegetable-derived acids, soy lecithin.
Fish liver oil: Used in vitamins, supplements & milk fortified with vitamin D. Alternative: Yeastextract ergosterol.
Gelatin, gel: Protein obtained by boiling skin, tendons, ligaments, ad/or bones with water. From cows & pigs. Used as a thickener for fruit gelatins & puddings and in vitamins as a coating and as capsules. In candies, marshmallows, cakes, ice cream, yogurts. Sometimes used in assist in "clearing" wines. Alternatives: carrageen (carrageenan, Irish moss) seaweeds (algin, agar agar, kelp), pectin from fruits dextrins, locust bean gym, cotton gym.
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