Instead of obsessing over the last 1% and trying to have personal purity, just go talk to one of your friends about veganism. The fact is that the first 90 to 99% of your vegan effort-excluding the main animal foods like meat, dairy, and eggs-that matters so, so much more than your final 1% of effort excluding all these tiny animal byproducts. Over the years, I came to the opinion that it really isn’t necessary for me to strictly avoid every single ingredient that may possibly be sourced from an animal. I remember I downloaded a 21-page list when I first went vegan 12 years ago. You can find very long lists of animal byproduct ingredients online. (Some vegans are okay with consuming honey, but many are not.) Why I Don’t Obsess Over Minor Ingredients Honey – While rare, some specialty sodas have honey as their main flavoring ingredient. (But again, this is a minor ingredient that many vegans would shrug off anyway.) While rare, you do find this in some sports and energy drinks. Vitamin D3 – Most manufacturers develop their vitamin D3 from sheep’s wool (also known as lanolin). To my knowledge, neither of these ingredients show up in Mountain Dew products, but just be aware that they can show up in sodas, so it always makes sense to scan the ingredients. Two More Non-Vegan Ingredients You May See in Sodas
Most practical vegans are okay with them. Some of the more strict vegans may not want to consume them. Vegans can drink Mountain Dew Kickstart.įor more on these “gray area” ingredients, see the longer description above. Most vegans do not boycott the drink for this. Some flavors include minor ingredients that may be sourced from animals, such as glycerol ester of wood rosin and sugar (may be refined with bone char). Mountain Dew Kickstart is generally considered vegan. But most vegans do not boycott the soft drink over this. The yellow coloring was likely tested on animals at some point in its development. Is Diet Mountain Dew Vegan?ĭiet Mountain Dew is generally considered vegan. It’s not healthy, but it’s vegan in my book. Don’t worry about it.ĭrink Mountain Dew if you want to. But again, I wouldn’t worry about this.Īs a vegan who is experienced at reading labels, those are the only potential problems I see. We don’t know for certain whether “natural flavor” comes from animal or plant sources. Hypothetically, vegans could still oppose Red 40 because it was tested on animals in development-but I don’t know any vegans who actually boycott it in real life. Mountain Dew Code Red, for example, uses Red 40, which is a synthetically made dye. But I haven’t seen carmine listed in any Mountain Dew flavors. The famous non-vegan food coloring is carmine (also called red 4, cochineal, or carminic acid), which is made from crushed up bugs (yuck!). The “glycerol” part concerns some vegans because glycerol can be made with animal fats. This is an ingredient sometimes used in sodas, including some Mountain Dew products, I think for coloring (?)-who knows, exactly. Glycerol Ester of Wood Rosin (sometimes called ester gum).We just don’t know how the sugar was processed. This is a potential problem with almost all “accidentally vegan” junk foods like Oreo cookies and sugary cereals, too. This is always a possibility with any soda if the sugar is not specifically labeled as raw or vegan. Sugar that was refined with bone char.12-pack cans of Mtn Dew and Diet Mtn Dew, printed underneath 16oz. Mtn Dew®, printed on the inside paperboard of 12 oz. WHERE TO FIND CODES: Look for a unique ten (10)-character alphanumeric code (each, a “Code”) underneath bottle caps on specially-marked 20 oz. Mountain Dew describes the taste on the bottle as a “rush of cherry flavor” and that’s exactly what it is and what makes it so tasty. While it might not be the best cherry-flavored soda on the market, Mountain Dew Code Red is at least in the conversation. It then quotes Niwrad Eiknarf, CPO of PepsiCo as saying: “Due to the increased evidence that drinking our line of Mtn Dew products has been shown to adversely affect health over long periods of use, we have decided to discontinue production of these products. On May 4th, 2019, in a Twitter post, the official Mountain Dew Canada account announced that Code Red has officially been discontinued leading its discontinuation due to an unknown reason. Is Diet Code Red Mountain Dew discontinued?
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