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Now I haven't started on this yet, but my plan is to have a list of every ingredient I can find in any item and list them along with whether or not they are vegetarian and/or vegan. I'm going to put the list here, aswell as a link to a program which will work as a search engine.

Just throught I'd announce the idea. If you want to help, you can list items (you don't have to list whether or not they're veg*n, if you don't have the time. I can look it up myself, but a list of some existing ingredients would help me out.)

I've heard of them, but I've never seen them myself, so I can't be sure.

Thought I'd contribute...

Common Ingredients to watch out for in foods/products that may be considered "vegan."

-Rennet (From calve's stomach, found in some brands of Soy Cheeses)
-Whey (dairy product, common ingredient in breads and even margarine)
-Casein (Calcium from Animal bones)
-Carmine (Red/Purple Dye from crushed Beetles, found in drinks and candies)
-Kertain (From various animals and their parts, found in some hair products)
- Tallow (Rendered Beef or Sheep fat, found in some margarines, crayons, lipsticks, lubricants, paints, rubbers, candles, soaps, etc..)
-Cane Sugar (Can be filtered through animal bone char)


For those of us with sweet teeth, I found this list of popular candies that are vegetarian approved (some are not vegan because they contain carmine and some may contain cane sugar)

Airheads taffy
Atkins peanut butter bars
Blow Pops
Boston Baked Beans
Charms lollipops
Chick-o-Sticks
Cracker Jack
Cry Babies
Dem Bones
Dots
Dum-Dums
Fireballs
Gob Stoppers by Willy Wonka
Goldenberg's Peanut Chews
Good 'n' Plenty
Hot Tamales
Hubba Bubba bubblegum
Jolly Ranchers (lollipops and hard candy only)
Jujubees
Jujyfruits
Lemonheads
Mambas
Mary Janes (regular and peanut butter kisses)
Mike and Ike
Nerds
Now and Later
Pez
Ring Pop lollipops
Smarties (not the ones made by Nestle with chocolate!)
Sour Patch Kids
Spree (original, not the new chewy kind)
Starburst (jelly beans and hard candy only!)
Super Bubble
Swedish Fish
Sweet Tarts
Tropical Source mini chocolate bags
Twizzlers
Zotz

Gelatin!

Wikipedia says gelatin is: "a protein product derived through partial hydrolysis of the collagen extracted from skin, bones, cartilage, ligaments, etc."

I've read somewhere that kosher gelatin is vegetarian safe, but they could be made from anything that didn't used to be a pig (eg. fish, beef, etc.)

This page has a list of several vegan gelatin alternatives!

That's all I've got for now, toodles!

PS. I have no idea why that last link of gelatin alternative listings was on a website called Divorce Kit.

Not that it has much to do with this particular topic, but I just found out that one of my (past) favourite cereals has GELATIN in it!!!

crying Feel my pain!!!

Frosted Wheaties! crying

Weird...
I would not have guessed that gelatin would be in Frosted Wheaties, I would have thought dairy...

I guess I really shouldn't be all too surprised though. I read a kind of old (probably '70s-'90s) book and it said that the only kellogs brand cereal that was vegetarian safe was one that are discontinued, or at least I never see them. I can't quite remember the name of it though.