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Found in eggs, milk, muscles, blood and many vegetable tissues and fluids
May cause allergic reaction
In cakes, cookies, candies and some wines |
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From whale intestines
Used as flavoring in foods and beverages |
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| Aminosuccinate Acid or Aspartic Acid |
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| can be animal or plant source (ex, molasses) |
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A wax that can be from animal fat
Alternatives: peanut or vegetable oil |
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| Artificial Color, FD & C food color |
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Dervived from coal-tar
Can contain trace amounts of lead and arsenic
Potentially carcinogenic
Alternatives: coloring from grapes, beets, turmeric, saffron, carrots, chlorophyll, annatto, alkanet |
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| any substance or agent that tends to produce a cancer |
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| Beta carotene, provitamin A |
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A pigment found in many animal tissues and in all plants
Used in the manufacturing of vitamin A
Make sure it's from plant sources |
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Crushed or ground animal bones
In some vitamins and supplements as a source of calcium |
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Crushed or ground animal bones
In some vitamins and supplements as a source of calcium |
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| Butylated Hhydroxyanisole (BHA) or Butylated Hydroxytoluene (BHT) |
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An antioxidant and/or preservative commonly found in baked goods, canned items, powdered soups, bacon, foods containing artificial colors or flavors
Can cause cancer, birth defects and infertility |
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| Carmine, cochineal, carminic acid |
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Red pigment from the crushed female cochineal insect
70,000 beetles must be killed to produce 1 lb of this red dye
Used in red applesauce, and other foods (red lollipops and food coloring)
May cause allergic reactions |
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| Casein, caseinate, sodium caseinate |
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| Milk protein found in dairy products, as well as "non dairy" creamers and some soy cheese |
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An amino acid from hair, which can come from animals
Used in some bakery products |
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An amino acid found in urine and horsehair
Used as a nutritional supplement |
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From the digestive tracts of cows and pigs
Added to some vitamin tablets |
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