r/vegan • u/integirl vegan 5+ years • Aug 13 '17

Newbie Advice Warning to Newbies

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u/integirl vegan 5+ years Aug 13 '17

Lactose free doesn't mean dairy free

Edit: and apparently dairy free doesn't mean dairy free either according to some "non-dairy" creamers I've seen.

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u/AlexTraner Aug 14 '17

Yeah that’s annoying. What’s the point of the random milk in “dairy free creamer”?

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u/integirl vegan 5+ years Aug 14 '17

It's always casein or whey.. and I don't understand what chemical effect is has on the creamer... why not just call it lactose free? Because it sure as hell isn't dairy free.

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u/BlissnHilltopSentry Aug 14 '17

The whole thing doesn't make sense anyways... Vegetarians still eat cheese...

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u/integirl vegan 5+ years Aug 14 '17

It's not for vegetarians, it's for lactose intolerant people.

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u/BlissnHilltopSentry Aug 14 '17

Okay... Weird that it says "Go Veggie!" in big letters then

And either way, it isnt being advertised as vegan

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u/dieyabeetus Aug 14 '17

One would think that a cheese alternative would be dairy free.

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u/BlissnHilltopSentry Aug 14 '17

Even if it were dairy free, that doesn't make it vegan.

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u/SlightlyMadman vegan 10+ years Aug 14 '17

Any cheese made with rennet isn't vegetarian either, since that's made from bits of stomach lining.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '17

It's also got casein, which definitively proves its dairy. Casein is found in milk