Are these ingredients vegan?

Question

Ingredients: Water, lemonade concentrate (sugar syrup, water, high fructose corn syrup, concentrated lemon juice, lemon pulp, lemon oil).

Ingredients: Water, black beans, onions, celery, vegetable base (baked carrots, lima beans, natural flavorings, tomato paste, cooked potatoes, corn oil, celery, onions), modified corn starch, red peppers, salt, spices, lemon juice, garlic powder.

Answer 1

Number one: possibly/probably. I don't know whether the sugar was produced with bone char or not, or whether or not you care about that.

Number two: more ambiguous. "Natural flavorings" could include any number of non-vegetarian items. Better to ask the company.

Answer 2

Although some vegans don't consume white sugar because it's sometimes filtered through bone char,  it can get quite hectic to avoid all products with white sugar... and expensive too.

For the sake of your new veganism, I would go ahead and drink the lemonade.  When you can afford it, buy juice that has organic sugar.  But right now, it's no big deal.

For the bean soup or bean dip, that's all vegan.  The only thing in question is the "natural flavorings".  But since it is stated that is "vegetable base," most likely it will be natural flavors from plant products.  Therefore vegan.  

If you have any questions regarding suspicious ingredients you can call the number on the back of the package and they should be able to tell you what the origin of the ingredient is.  If they don't know then you have the choice of either eating/drinking it or just avoiding it altogether because you don't know for sure.

Anyway, I've been a strict vegan for quite some time and these things you list I would eat and drink.

Answer 3

If you want to be real hardcore about it:

the corn in the high fructose corn syrup maybe genetically engineered using animal cells. You never know, but that's the reason i would still drink it.

Answer 4

The natural flavorings in the second list could be of either plant or animal origin and there'd be no way to tell without contacting the manufacturer.

Answer 5

Some vegans will not consume refined sugar, so these might not pass as vegan

Answer 6

Most of the time sugar syrup and natural flavorings are not vegan.

Answer 7

As others have said, cane sugar is sometimes filtered through bone char.  It's something I tend not to worry about, although I don't buy white sugar for my own use.  I also avoid HFCS because it's c**p.

Natural flavors can cover a whole lot of ground, and unless it says the flavorings are vegetarian sourced, I would contact the manufacturer.