Having trouble reading labels? Check out this list of some non-vegan ingredients and products:

• Albumen: from egg whites
• Beeswax: secreted by bees
• Bone char: ash from animals’ bones
• Bone meal: from ground animal bones
• Carmine: from dried, crushed insects
• Casein: from milk
• Caviar: fish eggs from slaughtered fish
• Chitin: from the hard parts of crustaceans 
• Cochineal: from dried, crushed insects
• Collagen: from animal connective tissue
• Gelatine: from boiled animals’ hooves, bones and horns
• Insulin: from the pancreas of sheep or pigs
• Insinglass: from the swim bladders of slaughtered fish
• Keratin: from hair, horns and hooves
• Lactose: from milk of mammals
• Lanolin: from sheep’s wool
• Lard: from fat surrounding animals’ stomachs
• Oestrogen: from cow ovaries and horse urine
• Parchment: from sheep or goat skin
• Pepsin: from gastric juices of slaughtered animals
• Progesterone: from animal tissue
• Rennet: from cow’s stomachs
• Shellac: secreted by insects
• Squalene: from shark livers
• Spermaceti wax: from sperm whales and dolphins
• Tallow: from fat surrounding animals’ kidneys
• Testosterone: from farmed animals
• Urea: from the livers of farmed animals
• Volaise: ostrich meat
• Whey: from animal milk

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If you have a question about something that is not on this list, or if you have anything to add, please contact me at sarahATtheveganmentorDOTcom.