Vegetarians have been making a HUGE noise recently as the makers of some of the UK’s favourite chocolate bars announced to the press that their products will no longer be free from animal products. A little recipe change to Masterfoods chocolates means that the products will now include 'whey' containing animal rennet (an enzyme taken from the stomachs of newborn calves). This means popular chocolate bars including Mars, Bounty, Snickers, Twix and Milky Way, as well as Maltesers and Minstrels will now be off limits for strict vegetarians. However a little look by the 'Guardian' this week at some other well known and loved products shows that animal additives are lurking in some of the most unlikely places. Kellogs Frosted Wheat’s are beefed up with a little ingredient known as beef gelatine. If you fancy a nice glass of tangy orange Tango, I hope you don’t mind some fish with that. Tango contains fish gelatine. Good old Guiness contains a form of collagen called ‘Isinglass´that originates from the swim-bladders of fish. Not really an ingredient in the actual Guiness, but it is used during the brewing process so it makes Guinness ‘technically’ non-vegetarian. Believe it or not that old staple Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce has been strictly off limits for vege’s since way back in 1837. Although anchovies are not native to Worcestershire they ARE in the original Lea and Perrins famous sauce recipe that is still used today. And shock horror…..There is no such thing as vegetarian Parmesan Cheese! Parmesan also contains animal rennet which I guess means ready made Pesto Sauce is off the vegetarian menu as well.
Update May 21st: Masterfoods have now apologised to the UK's 3 million vegetarians and have made an abrupt U-turn on their decision.
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