Does anyone know the truth about Pork

[kally]

Yesterday my sister and I were talking about healthy foods. We both do not eat pork and her neighbors are muslim. She said they told her that products like Skittles, Marshmallows, gummy bears, worms etc. vitamin Gel capsules were all made of pork!!!. I tried to do a search on line to find out more about this and got no were. So has anyone heard of this and if so do you have any links that talk about pork and what products are made of it. TIA

[*Happily Me*]

Yesterday my sister and I were talking about healthy foods. We both do not eat pork and her neighbors are muslim. She said they told her that products like Skittles, Marshmallows, gummy bears, worms etc. vitamin Gel capsules were all made of pork!!!. I tried to do a search on line to find out more about this and got no were. So has anyone heard of this and if so do you have any links that talk about pork and what products are made of it. TIA

I gave up pork over 4 years ago and I, too, have heard that gummy bears were made with a pork by-product.

[bLackButtaFly]

I think it's anything that has gelatin, which is a pork byproduct, in it. Jello, gummy bears, starbursts all have some type of gelatin, so you could be ingesting a small amount of pork.

[cheetarah1980]

I think they also make gelatin that doesn't use pork byproducts. I know that originally all gelatin was derived from pig's hooves, but I believe they've developed other formulas since.

[*Happily Me*]

"From around the world, Muslims have been calling up Frito-Lay, inquiring about their products after learning of possible pork enzymes in their cheese seasonings. Muslim students and professionals, in response, started email campaigns, wrote on their blogs, and some even created groups on the popular college-networking website, Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/)."

http://www.arabisto.com/p_blogEntry.cfm?blogEntryID=511


http://www.cyberparent.com/nutrition/hiddenanimalsfoodproducts.htm

GelatinProtein from bones, cartilage, tendons, and skin of animals, Much of the commercial gelatin is a by-product of pig skin.Marshmallows, yogurt, frosted cereals, gelatin-containing desserts, molded salads..
PepsinEnzyme from pigs' stomachsWith rennet to make cheese.
http://www.canadianhalalfoods.com/ingApp.shtml
The cherries are artificially colored and also it is colored with carmine (carmine color is obtained from insects/beetles and this color is not considered Halal). If the cherries are colored with artificial FD&C then there is a chance FD&C might contain pork glycerin as a solvent. So colored cherries have to be Halal or Kosher certified. Colored cherries are added in fruit cocktails. If the fruit cocktail can does not have a Halal or Kosher symbol, then the fruit cocktail containing colored cherries is not Halal. So always look for Halal or Kosher symbol in a product containing colored cherries.

[kally]

Thank you for this info. This helps a lot. I use to just assume pork products were limited to meats and lard.
I also had to give up my favorite things like Grippos Potato chip, (barb) but they too were cooked in pork It make since now because the do smell like pork. I heard little debbie snack were too, but I was never a big fan of it.

the ingredient Mono somthing glycerin is also how you can tell she was telling me.