Is-Vegan – Helps you to find out which food ingredients are vegan

The comments here are depressing. Reminds me of the comments on anything related to bicycling on reddit- extrapolations from generalized and uninformed opinions about choices people make about their own lives. Veganism(I am not vegan) is a personal choice and yet the dissenters here choose to let stereotypes color their opinions on entire groups?

Doesn&#x27;t this fall prey to the fact that there isn&#x27;t a black and what distinction for exactly what&#x27;s vegan?<p>There are people that will argue that honey is suitable for vegans: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;veganbros.com&#x2F;1-reason-honey-vegan&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;veganbros.com&#x2F;1-reason-honey-vegan&#x2F;</a><p>There are even people that will argue that shellfish are suitable for vegans to eat: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;life&#x2F;food&#x2F;2010&#x2F;04&#x2F;consider_the_oyster.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;life&#x2F;food&#x2F;2010&#x2F;04&#x2F;consider_the...</a>

This is kind of cool. The really good thing is the idea of a blacklist though, but perhaps having a system to tag ingredients would be better - it could potentially help food allergics and stuff as well if we could tag &quot;gluten&quot; or &quot;lacto-ovo&quot; or whatever. Vegans are a small group compared to vegans and people who restrict their diet due to illness.

General question: Wouldn&#x27;t it make more sense to have a whitelist instead of (or at least in addition to) a blacklist?<p>Moreover, I&#x27;d love to see this information maintained somewhere in Wikipedia&#x2F;Wikidata.

Are carnivorous plants vegan?

I&#x27;ll have to give this a package try.<p>My wife can&#x27;t eat dairy so we often have to find an item on the menu marked as Vegan to guarantee it doesn&#x27;t contain any dairy.<p>Otherwise, it&#x27;s nearly impossible to get a server to answer the question, &quot;Does this item contain dairy or is it cooked in dairy? Butter, cream, milk, etc.&quot;<p>A common answer we get is, &quot;I don&#x27;t know if its dairy-free but it&#x27;s gluten-free.&quot;

It says &quot;true&quot; for any ingredient it doesn&#x27;t have in its list (I tried lamb, goats milk, and sausage – all are reported to be vegan).<p>It would make more sense to just release the JSON list of known non-vegan ingredients. People can use Array#filter and Array#some themselves.<p>EDIT: it says these are all vegan too: steak, bacon, ham, pheasant, venison, cheddar, mozzarella, ghee, lactic acid, sour cream.

Much like anti-malware, you&#x27;d be better served by using a whitelist.

In their last example, I&#x27;d argue &quot;MECHANICALLY SEPARATED CHICKEN&quot; should be in the list with BEEF and WHEY. :)

I am sorry, but most vegans I know always want to talk about ... being vegan. Kind of like socializing with a vocal religious convert.

Serious question: are scallops&#x2F;oysters vegan ? They have no central nervous system, but are living beings.

I find this list very helpful for non-vegans with food allergies. Thank you

Wondering how hard it would be to build something that takes a picture of ingredients on a food label for text recognition, which feeds into this... or something like this

I&#x27;d like and AI that can recognise fruit and veg as you prepare them and weight them and calculates total calories.<p>a raw fruit and veg white list would be better.

We built this same function for the paleo world - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;paleo.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;paleo.io</a>

20 loc, great job man. Keep on sharing, impressive (for vegans)

The comments in this thread show:<p>Trollin&#x27; ain&#x27;t easy

Is mutton vegan? Apparently the answer is yes.

Would it be acceptable for vegans to eat animals that died accidentally or without human intervention? There’s some valuable proteins in that squashed skunk ma’am

I&#x27;m always interested to see that almonds are acceptable to vegans. Perhaps people should look into commercial beekeeping and how most farmed almonds are pollinated. I&#x27;d say that a colony of bees is much more intelligent than a typical cow or chicken.<p>I&#x27;m not vegan btw, so perhaps I&#x27;m not entitled to an opinion on this - that said, I do keep bees.