Not only animal fats, I’ve seen chips that had milk listed as an ingredient. But yeah for fries it’s mostly the possibility that there’s animal fat involved.
Salads often have dressings with dairy ingredients, or just straight up have cheese thrown in
Alcohols are often processed with animal products, like isinglass (made of fish bladders) which is used in clarification. Mostly a concern in wine but I think it’s used in (some?) beer too
isinglass is rarely used in beers any more, not only is it more expensive, in the US the micro brew crowd has a significantly higher number of vegans than the general population so nobody wants to lose that business. In Europe isinglass doesn’t conform to purity laws for countries that have them. Unless you’re drinking a milk stout ( or sometimes a chocolate stout, but they’re mostly just brewed with cocoa nibs) there’s a >99% chance your beer is vegan.
Unfortunately some sours are started with dairy yogurt (Oakshire Brewing in the US does this for all theirs), and there was a quick trend of lactose IPAs. Generally these things are outlined on the label, but not always. Worth a check whenever you’re considering a sour, at least.
Not only animal fats, I’ve seen chips that had milk listed as an ingredient. But yeah for fries it’s mostly the possibility that there’s animal fat involved.
Salads often have dressings with dairy ingredients, or just straight up have cheese thrown in
Alcohols are often processed with animal products, like isinglass (made of fish bladders) which is used in clarification. Mostly a concern in wine but I think it’s used in (some?) beer too
isinglass is rarely used in beers any more, not only is it more expensive, in the US the micro brew crowd has a significantly higher number of vegans than the general population so nobody wants to lose that business. In Europe isinglass doesn’t conform to purity laws for countries that have them. Unless you’re drinking a milk stout ( or sometimes a chocolate stout, but they’re mostly just brewed with cocoa nibs) there’s a >99% chance your beer is vegan.
Unfortunately some sours are started with dairy yogurt (Oakshire Brewing in the US does this for all theirs), and there was a quick trend of lactose IPAs. Generally these things are outlined on the label, but not always. Worth a check whenever you’re considering a sour, at least.