First blog! Yay! So i was thinking and thinking for hours on what to have as a first blog! Should i have it to do with how to become vegetarian, a good vegetarian meal i have recently tried, beauty products not tested on animals, ahhh, what?!?! Then i decided to do something a little "simple" yet something that most people do not know about! As i did not know about it either until somewhat recently! Vegetarian cheese! Okay, so my mom has always been a vegetarian & she would not eat cheese. She would always tell me that its made with animal stomach or something along those lines. My dad always told me that it was not true and for some reason i listened to him (probably because cheese tasted good & i didn't know the real truth so i kept eating it..) Well within the past year, i researched it. I found out after a ton of research that most cheese (unless directly marked in the ingredients label) is made using "animal rennet".
What is animal rennet?? Animal Rennet is made from rennin, an enzyme that is secreted in the fourth stomach of calves, lambs, and goats. It is most often derived from the dried and ground stomachs of unweaned calves and is used in making cheese.
So before you make your homemade pizza, or add cheese to your sandwich or taco, make sure to check out this list of animal free rennet which will always be marked!
**Animal free rennet contains microbial or vegetable rennet substitutes that are suitable for a vegetarian lifestyle.
Animal Free Cheese Brands-
Tillamook, Yancey's Fancy, Stella, Rondele, Organic Dairyland, Leprino, Land Of Lakes (minus the processed slices), Horizon, Cabot.
These are the brands i know about. There are a ton of cheeses at the grocery store, Trader Joe's, that will say "animal free rennet" on the back ingredient category. That's my favorite place to find foods that have the animal free logo on them. :)
Hope this helped! Enjoy!
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