- Hey guys, it's me again!
I'm sitting on my sofa,
which means we are going
to have a chat again today.
After the last video of
20 things you thought
were vegan but aren't,
I learned a couple things.
A, you guys wanted another video
with a bunch of ingredients
to look out for.
And two, I learned who Ashley Wicka is.
Because she did a very similar video,
just hers was 75 things
that you thought were vegan
but aren't.
So I, she actually reached out to me,
we started chatting, I
checked out her channel.
If you want more videos like this,
definitely go and check her out,
she's a really sweet girl from LA.
So, yeah, so I thought it
would be fun to do another
list video, but this time it's
ingredients to look out for.
I'm Candice, the Edgy Veg,
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Hopefully I can throw
something together for you.
All right, let's hop right into it.
Not so delicately, with castoreum.
Castoreum, castoreum.
It is a food additive that comes from
the anal secretions of beavers.
So apparently, whoever
figured this out noticed
that the anal secretions of
the North American Beaver,
and sometimes the British Beaver,
smells like vanilla.
So it's often used in fragrances
and as a food additive for flavoring.
Apparently,
it's also used in fruit
flavorings to kind of like,
enhance the flavor of
raspberries and strawberries.
So this was a lot more used, I would say,
like 10 years ago.
But because it's becoming
exceedingly expensive
to harvest the anal fluid from a beaver,
it's not used as
frequently as it once was.
So it's something that is rare
to find in food these days,
but is used in perfumes,
but again, it is kind of coming
out of style, if you will,
because it's so expensive.
The second one is casein,
I talked about this in
my other video a lot.
This nasty little bugger
seems to find its way
into a lot of foods, even foods
that are labeled dairy free.
So Casein is the chief protein in milk,
it's often found in
like, cream-based soups.
A lot of companies that are
looking for a cheaper way
to add cream
and denseness to their baked goods,
soups, that sort of thing,
will use Casein instead of
like, pure creams.
And like I said, a lot of
non-dairy products actually have
it in there if they're
not labeled as vegan.
Go Veggie is a cheese that
I discussed last time,
it says diary free cheese, soy cheese,
but it has Casein in it.
Okay, so whey is the liquid
that's left after milk has
curdled, and has been strained.
So, you know like, Little
Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet,
eating her curds and whey,
the whey is that liquid substance.
So it's a by product
of the cheese industry
and like the manufacturing of Casein.
And it's often used as a
super cheap milk replacement
in commercial products like
cheese flavored crackers,
snacks, hot dogs, that sort of thing.
Lactose is the sugar found in milk,
and that again is a very cheap byproduct
that can be used in a
lot of packaged foods.
So things like margarine, some cereal,
frozen potato products, and
even instant like mashed,
instant mashed potatoes,
a lot of them will have that in there.
'Cause it's cheap, it's
a byproduct of you know,
making cheese and making milk
so it has to get used somewhere
and it's super cheap to use,
so a lot of products end up
with that in there to make it
like cheese flavored without
the actual cost of the milk.
So the term "animal derived"
means that the ingredient
or the product is made
from animal byproduct.
So this can be flesh, bones, secretions,
like milk, we're using a lot
of really fun terms today.
So if it says, like
animal derived lactic acid
or if it has rennet in it,
it should say animal derived
rennet or casein or whatever.
That's what the term animal derived means,
it just means it's a byproduct of animals,
doesn't necessarily have
to be like, egg or cheese.
It can be like I said,
lactic acid for example.
So, lactic acid, there
are some plant based forms
of lactic acid, but there's
also animal derived lactic acid.
So this is often used as a preservative,
and like a flavoring agent.
It's an ingredient that's used
in a lot of processed foods,
because of it's preservative nature.
So things like pickles,
pickled vegetables,
like fruit preserves,
it's used in wine as well,
Oh, and some bread products!
So a lot of like, grocery
store bakery breads
sometimes will have lactic acid in it
to help it keep for longer
and also to help the flavor.
All right, gelatin, we
talked about this last time.
This motherfucker finds its way into
everything, like everything.
And if you don't know what gelatin is,
it's often obtained from pork or beef.
And what they do is they take
bones, tendons, ligament,
skin, and they boil it with
water until it gets this like,
goopy substance and then they
use that too as a thickener.
You can find it in face masks,
you can find it in things
like jello, fruit preserves,
candy, Altoids.
Like it's in so many
things because it's cheap,
it's a byproduct, and
it's used as a thickener
and a binder which a lot
of processed foods do need.
Oh, it's also used sometimes
to assist in the clarifying
of wine so, barnivore.com,
go there, check your alcohol.
Beeswax is another one
that kind of finds its way
into a lot of different products,
whether it's food or skin care.
Often used, actually, on
produce as a produce coating.
So if you're buying an
apple from the store,
they want that apple to stay
as fresh and red and like,
ripe and nice as possible,
so they'll coat it in wax so
that by the time you get it,
like it doesn't go bad
by the time, you know,
it's harvested and transported,
sits in the grocery store,
and then you get it at home.
It wants, obviously the
farmers and obviously
the grocery stores want that
to last as long as possible,
so they will coat it with
wax to slow down the,
the breakdown of it.
It's often used in candy and coatings,
as well as a lot of natural
and not so natural skin care
products, so it'll just
find its way in there.
Like mascaras, and eyeliner,
and that sort of thing.
And creams, a lot, it's used
as an emulsifier in a lot of
skin care products and creams.
So definitely, just
because a skin care line
is labeled as natural,
doesn't mean necessary that it's vegan.
So going back to like the
produce that it's coated in,
cleaning your produce the
right way is super important.
I mean it's almost impossible
to tell if the produce
has been dipped in beeswax
or soy wax or whatever,
like, I'm not saying stop eating fruit.
These are just things to be aware of,
I'm not being like the militant
crazy vegan that's like,
you can't eat apples anymore
because they're not vegan
'cause they're dipped in beeswax.
That's not what I'm saying.
I just thought that was an
interesting tidbit and fact
that I didn't know until I
started researching this,
that you might not know of.
You can eat whatever the hell you want,
just it's also good to be aware.
Confectioners glaze, also known
as shellac, resinous glaze,
or natural glaze or pure food glaze,
comes from crushed up bugs.
Mmm
mmm,
tasty.
So this is often used on
candy and baked goods,
to create like a nice sheen.
It is listed under those
different names on the actual,
like, package so you will
be able to know and see if
that is in the food that you're,
I don't know, that you're
thinking of buying.
Cochineal or carmine, is red
food coloring that's made
from crushed up bugs and beetles.
Often used in candies, really
anything that has food color,
like red food coloring,
there is food coloring that is vegan.
Red dye number 40 is a red
food dye that is vegan friendly
It's in glass, we talked
about this last time.
It is a fish bladder that
is often used to clarify
spirits, wine and beer.
L-Cysteine, this is another tasty one.
It's often made from human
hair or duck feathers.
Often used in like,
processed wheat and white flour breads
and bread products,
because it's used as a dough conditioner.
Oleic acid, this is made
from rendered animal fats.
Often found in synthetic
butters, some beverages,
vegetable fats and oils
and some condiments.
Now I'm suspicious of all my condiments.
Lard, lard is the fat from a pig abdomen.
Often found in can soups, refried beans,
and a lot of baked goods.
Like a lot of like,
European style baked goods
have lard in them.
And last but not least,
we have vitamin D3.
This is derived from sheep's
wool, and is often used
to fortify different foods and beverages.
Like orange juice, for example.
All right guys, there you have it,
15 ingredients to look
out for and be aware of
that are not vegan and commonly find their
nasty little paws in to our food.
And or you can also let
me know what kind of list
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