VEGAN FOOD & LIVING OCTOBER 105vegan Kettle Chips fl avours or the Tyrrells’ Sweet Chilli & Red
Pepper, Sea Salt & Cracked Black Pepper, English Barbecue
and Red White & Blue fl avours, as well as their Mixed Root
Vegetable Crisps.
Although all these products and many more are vegan, labels
often don’t explicitly state the fact, which means some vegans
are missing out. But here’s a little trick to help you fi nd out
whether your favourite crisp – or any other product – is vegan:
if it says ‘vegetarian’, contains no honey, and there are no dairy
or egg allergens listed in bold in the ingredients list, it’s vegan.
C’est si simple!
Vegan? That’s crackers!
In order to reduce your eye-straining, label-reading time,
though, here are a few more everyday snack foods that just
happen to be vegan: Ritz crackers, Hovis Extra Wheatgerm
Crackers, Jacob’s Flatbreads (Salt & Cracked Black Pepper,
Mixed Seed) and, counter-intuitively, cream crackers. Pile
up your savoury biscuits with olives, sun-dried tomatoes,
Peppadew peppers and artichokes as these are vegan, too –
the lactic acid some are preserved in comes from a vegetable
source, not milk, as you might assume. Just watch out for olives
sneakily stuff ed with anchovies or Peppadews covertly crammed
with cheese.
What about a little weekend tipple, something to wash down
your snacks and sweets? There are everyday companies that
don’t use fi sh bladders and other horrors to fi ne their beers
and ciders. Try Corona, Budweiser and Peroni, Merrydown,Thatcher’s and Weston’s. As for wines, Sainsbury’s, Co-op
and Marks & Spencer all clearly label the vegan wines in their
selections, and other supermarkets have lists available so you
may fi nd your favourite is on there. Companies generally have
been a bit slow to label bottles, with one exception being Oxford
Landing, and you’ll fi nd their accidentally^ vegan wines in just
about every wine-selling establishment.
Of course, there are loads of amazing companies that are
exclusively and deliberately vegan, and we recommend you look
out for their products, too. Fry’s, for example, make the best
faux meat nuggets, strips, sausages and pies, while Tideford
Organics are your guys for all things soup, sauce and pesto. Ifyou’re missing cheese and onion crisps (oh, and chicken crisps
and fancy popcorns too), look no further than Ten Acre, while
for protein-boosting healthy snack bars, including the delicious
Orange Choc Chip, we recommend Pulsin.
Being vegan doesn’t have to mean a whole new way of life.
In most cases, it’s simply a question of knowing which brands
are vegan and choosing those. And often, the brand you’ve been
buying all along was vegan anyway – you just didn’t know it!
For more accidentally vegan products, visit veganuary.comAll these products and many more are vegan,
but labels often don't explicitly state the fact
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