Do you all know about Chewy sweets and Mashmellows contain?
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I believe during Chinese New year many of us had many goodies, including Chewy sweets and Mashmellows.
But do you all know that Chewy sweets and Mashmellows contains gelatin?
Gelatin (from French gélatine) is a translucent, colorless, brittle, nearly tasteless solid substance, extracted from the collagen inside animals' skin and bones. (extracted from wikipedia.)
For those that take beef products, this won't be an issue to you all. However, the main topic starts here, for me, i personally don't take beef due to religion purpose (I'm a buddhist) . Not saying about taking daily products such as milk, but beef, the meat ,bones etc, i don't take them.
Many of us normally will just buy products without actually read the ingredients.
To my surprise, Chewy sweets and Mashmellows actually contain Beef Gelatin (if you don't believe, next time you can read the ingredients when you visit the supermarket next time). And sad to say, i had consumed much of them before, but had stop consuming after knowing the substances used to produce them.
And worse still, when i went to temple, many unknown believers, actually use these chewy sweets as offerings.
I mean, shouldn't the manufacturer state "contain Gelatin from animals" on some place that is more visible to take care of consumer such as vegeterians, Our Indian friends, buddhist, etc for those who don't take beef.
Just posting my point of view, and alerting those who don't take beef.
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Oh...
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me knw ah.
u mean u din?
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Increase awareness lol.
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knew it long ago..
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I dun eat those stuff anyway....
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Your medicine in the dosage form of a capsule is also being made from gelatin (yes, from animal parts).
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oh i @@
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Animal and plant extracts are common in medicine nowadays....
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Way to go, captain obvious.