Is This Safe To Eat (Vegetariazn Question!)?

Question

OK, so im trying out the whole Vegetarian thing, and i asked my mom to pick me up some Vegtable stock,a nd im not too sure if i can eat it :S i know its vegtable stock and i SHOULD be safe, but i want to make sure i am! i was very suprised at the stuff they can jam dead animals into. anyways it is powdered and in a plastic jar 'Loneys' brand. the ingredients are:

Salt

Glucose Solids

Sugar

Monosodium glutamate

cornstarch

hydrolised plant protein (soy , wheat)

dehydrated vegtabes (carrots, celery, onions, bell peppers, cabbage, tomatoes)

maltodextrin

spices

citric acid

natural flavors

silicon dioxide

colours

disodium ionsinate

disodium guanylate

sulphites

anyone see anyhting wrong with this? thanks sooo m,uch in advanced!!=]

Answer 1

Yes it seems "safe" to eat for vegetarian purposes but it is not really all that good for ANYBODY. It's sounds more like a chemical cocktail than food. Vegetables stocks are easy to make and freeze well. Why don't you try that next time.

Answer 2

The ingredients are animal free, but its mostly chemicals....

Answer 3

Nothing on that list jumps out at me as being non-vegan

http://www.vegan-info.com/additives.html

Silicon dioxide is questionable for your health.

http://www.ivanfraser.com/articles/healt...

"colours" can potentially be animal-sourced.

Disodium ionsinate and disodium guanylate can be safe, or not. One source of the latter is dried fish.

Honestly, I advocate avoiding packaged foods with ingredients you can't pronounce and have no idea where they came from. The major ingredients in that "stock" are salt and sugar anyway, which we normally don't need much of.

You can make some veggie soup stock yourself quite easily.

http://allrecipes.com/HowTo/Making-Veget...

Answer 4

no, it is all veggie, but the MSG in it is really bad for your health

try Pacific Organic vegetable stock

http://www.pacificfoods.com/products-bro...

it is not that much more expensive than regular, but it is organic and doesn't have MSG. I use it for my pesto and butter bean soup...yummy

I buy it in Kroger or Meijer

Answer 5

disodium ionsinate is prepared from meat extract, but its not really something to boycott because of several reasons, which you can see here: http://www.caringconsumer.com/resources_...

so just eat the vegetable stock.

look out for things containing gelatin, beef fats (hostess snacks has alot of it),  collagen, marine oils, and rennet (in some cheeses, but usually there will be an asterik* by it and at the bottom of the wrapper it will usually say non-animal source or something simalar)

oh and if your not into animal testing either, dont eat mars candy (m&ms, skittles, starbursts ect)