Vegetarians be careful about Hidden, Non-Vegetarian-Friendly Ingredients

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In basic terms, a vegetarian means is a diet that does not include meat, poultry or fish. It is a personal choice that might be based on religious, ethical, health or economic reasons.
If you have chosen to be vegetarian for religion or ethical reason then you should be careful about some products.
There are many ingredients in common foods that challenge the norms of the herbivore lifestyle. Items such as marshmallow, gummies, candies, yogurt, packaged cookies and salad dressings, dessert like custard, some ice cream, cheesecake, Jell-O, jelly, jams could contain ingredients that are by-products of animal slaughter.
Therefore before your next purchase, scan the ingredient list for the items below:

Gelatin:  Gelatin is a translucent, colorless, flavorless tasteless and odourless solid substance, derived from the collagen mainly inside pig skin, bone of cattle, connective tissues, organs and some intestines of animals such as domesticated cattle, chicken, and pigs.
It is produced by partial hydrolysis or boiling process.
It is commonly used as a setting or gelling agent in food.
When dissolved in boiling water and then cooled it turns into a jelly-like form that is used to thicken and stabilize the foods and fillings.
Gelatine gives bulk by converting liquids into solids, semi-solids or thick liquids.
Low fat products, such as ice cream, yogurt, and cream cheese include gelatin as a way to increase volume.
Surprisingly, many medicinal capsules also contain gelatin because it makes pills easier to swallow.

Rennet: Rennet is a set of enzymes produced from mammalian stomachs (including cows, goats and sheep) that is used to coagulate the dairy in milk and some cheese such as Parmesan, Gorgonzola and Grana Padano.

Presently there are many manufacturers who have switched to using vegetable rennet instead of the animal-based product, but always check the ingredient labels to be sure.

Anchovies: Anchovies are a shiny, oily small salt water fish of the Anchoa (North America) or Engraulidae (Mediterranean and European) family.

Worcestershire sauce, remoulded sauce, pasta sauce and green goddess dressings such as Caesar salad dressing, all of which classic recipes contain anchovies. Many, many recipes use anchovies for a punch of flavor where the anchovies are neither recognizable visually nor by the taste buds. Anchovies are often that secret ingredient that you just can't put your finger on, the one that really makes the recipe pop.