Is this cheese suitable for a lacto-ovo vegetarian?

Question

smart beat fat-free american flavor cheese slices?

it says that it has casein in it but it says in parenthasees that its a lactose free milk derived protien

it also has lactic acid

is this ok for a vegetarian?

Answer 1

Like the second lady said check the labels, I am a former chef and not a lacto-ovo vegetarain and I stray from any animal based ones, cottage cheese is not coagulated with rennet, ricotta is not either they use lemon juice or vinegar, and they make dry ricotta that is both fresh and aged similar to parmesan.

They do make rennet free cheese, I like soya ones to, but only use yougart and some egg white with my diet, you can make yougart cheese buy draining a large 16 oz/500 ml tub of natural unflavoured yougart in a strainer with some clean coffee filter overnight or for 8 hours in the frig, and it is cream cheese like then, and cream cheese either fresh or packaged is fine, Philly CC is held together with vegetable based thickeners like xanthan gum and guar gum and locust bean thickeners all plant sourced

Answer 2

Check if it has animal rennet... aka cow stomach. Yummmm. XP

Answer 3

lacto means dairy.  Cheese is dairy.  I don't know if that brand is vegetarian friendly.  Many cheeses are made with animal rennet..an ingredient not suitable for vegetarians.

Answer 4

LACTO-ovo-vegetarian means a vegetarian who eats both eggs and dairy products.  So casein and lactic acid from milk are acceptable to a lacto-ovo-vegetarian.

Where cheese becomes a concern for vegetarians is with rennet, which is used to coagulate some cheeses and is a slaughter byproduct.  Unless the cheese is labeled rennetless or specifies that they used vegetable rennet, you'd have to assume calf rennet was used or call the manufacturer to find out.