Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Fri, Dec 10 2004
Milk: The Other White Meat
I'm not a true vegetarian, but I eat less meat than the average American. So I do enjoy hunting down recipes and information on such things. You can imagine my surprise when a link to a link to a link led me to an article that claims the Vitamin D-3 added to milk may be coming from pigs. The article was written a few years ago, so I wonder if the sources of Vitamin D-3 remain the same. This seems like a very rude practice to me, since many people practice a lacto-ovo vegetarian lifestyle, and others choose to make their diet kosher. And it doesn't apply only to milk. Apparently the FDA gave the go-ahead to juice producers who wanted to add Vitamin D-3 to fortified juices. Scroll to the bottom of this Minute Maid Premium OJ page and you'll see that they include Vitamin D-3 in that product. I wonder where theirs comes from?
I don't know whether the practice of adding Vitamin D-3 to products is safe or not, but it would at least be decent of manufacturers and processors to inform the public as to the source of the stuff.
posted at: 06:21 | category: /Food | link to this entry
I'm not a true vegetarian, but I eat less meat than the average American. So I do enjoy hunting down recipes and information on such things. You can imagine my surprise when a link to a link to a link led me to an article that claims the Vitamin D-3 added to milk may be coming from pigs. The article was written a few years ago, so I wonder if the sources of Vitamin D-3 remain the same. This seems like a very rude practice to me, since many people practice a lacto-ovo vegetarian lifestyle, and others choose to make their diet kosher. And it doesn't apply only to milk. Apparently the FDA gave the go-ahead to juice producers who wanted to add Vitamin D-3 to fortified juices. Scroll to the bottom of this Minute Maid Premium OJ page and you'll see that they include Vitamin D-3 in that product. I wonder where theirs comes from?
I don't know whether the practice of adding Vitamin D-3 to products is safe or not, but it would at least be decent of manufacturers and processors to inform the public as to the source of the stuff.
posted at: 06:21 | category: /Food | link to this entry
