Cranberry Juice.. someone help! lol
Posted by xAFIx on Jun 04, 2006 · Member since Jul 2004 · 1 posts
Alright, I've been Vegeterian for 6 months, and I got so comfortable I decided to go Vegan, and I'm having a tough time adjusting to what I can drink, eating isn't a problem. Hidden ingredients with big fancy names are very confusing and i seem to just be drinking Water and Soy Milk the past few weeks, i need help!
What can i buy at my local supermarket that is vegan to drink?
my 2nd Question: is cranberry juice vegan (i know it sounds silly) but theres alot of "concentrates" inside of it and I'm afraid to touch it!
Thanks in advance.. Im sorry if this sounds silly, vegan is really new to me!
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Most fruit juices are vegan, UNLESS they contain the colourings cochineal or carmine, which are derived from insects.
Also, it depends on how strict you are about eating refined sugar.
tea!! whether its iced or hot they are refreshing and yummy and lots of different kinds even herbal. yum. plus you control what you put in it, how much sugar or refined or unrefined whatever you are concerned about, and some teas are very healthy lots of antioxidants :) theres my MMM TEA infomercial for you!! hmm what else to recommend. breakfast smoothies are good with bananas and fruit juice of your choice or soy milk, i've recently started using these tofu dessert tray thingies you can find in supermarket tofu sections that are flavored (I use peach mango) as a base for my smoothies, very yum ;D
I read something so DISTURBING on my tea package the other day! I couldn't imagine a company would go to such unnecessary measures!
My mother had purchased some absolutely delicious sounding bags of Red Tea (Rooibois? Something of that nature. I've had it before, from another company, and it's tasty.) that had been enhanced with antioxidants and whatnot. I was about to rip into the packaging when I read in TINY print on the ingredients list "May contain trace fragments of fish bone, due to clarification process"
Bagged tea doesn't even require clarification! I'm not easily repulsed, so it didn't totally shock me, but I was very confused upon why a company would even deem that process necessary. I would think they would avoid using a fish bone clarification system purely so that they wouldn't have to label the product with such an unsettling statement. I read it to my carnivorous friends, and THEY thought it was absolutely putrid.
:o Thanks for sharing that... I'll be sure to double check when buying new brands of tea from now on. But then again, it is rare that a company includes filtration information... even on products that require filtration of some kind. Thats intriguing though; is there a contact number for the company? I would like to know what they put in their tea or do to it that requires filtration. ???
I read something so DISTURBING on my tea package the other day! I couldn't imagine a company would go to such unnecessary measures!
My mother had purchased some absolutely delicious sounding bags of Red Tea (Rooibois? Something of that nature. I've had it before, from another company, and it's tasty.) that had been enhanced with antioxidants and whatnot. I was about to rip into the packaging when I read in TINY print on the ingredients list "May contain trace fragments of fish bone, due to clarification process"
Bagged tea doesn't even require clarification! I'm not easily repulsed, so it didn't totally shock me, but I was very confused upon why a company would even deem that process necessary. I would think they would avoid using a fish bone clarification system purely so that they wouldn't have to label the product with such an unsettling statement. I read it to my carnivorous friends, and THEY thought it was absolutely putrid.
:owhat brand of tea was it?so we know not to buy it!...
i love white tea...it tastes woonderful!
i usually drink Tazo and revolution teas?
I've definitely heard of fish-bladder filtration for beer and other alcohol products (Guiness is a good example - not vegan!), but never for tea. Interesting.
The other thing with juices that you may want to consider is that some are tested on animals. It's ridiculous, I know. Pom (pomegrantate juice) is one brand that tests their juice on animals, so you may want to find another brand. I believe I recently read that Welch's has stopped testing on animals.
I wish I could remember what brand it was. I informed my mom that I couldn't drink the stuff, I assume she brought it to her office to drink while at work or something. (Vegetarian/vegan or not, I don't like throwing anything away. Woot for freeganism?) Luckily it was right on the label, so I suppose you have to give the company minimal credit for at least informing their consumers... but I think that may have been due to the large amounts of seafood allergies more than anything, they didn't want a wrongful death lawsuit on their hands. :P