{"id":7,"date":"2007-03-12T21:45:48","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T01:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/django.lib.duke.edu\/blogs\/answerperson\/2007\/03\/12\/gelatin\/"},"modified":"2011-03-24T15:53:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T15:53:45","slug":"gelatin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/2007\/03\/12\/gelatin\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#039;s gelatin made of?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Is gelatin still made with animal bones? Like when they put gelatin in children&#8217;s cereals, is that vegetarian\/kosher?I guess it&#8217;s really a question of what is the least expensive if they are still using animal bones, right?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: True gelatin is protein-based and rendered from the skin, cartilage, bone, etc. of animals. Yes, it is still used. There are also gelling agents sometimes called vegetable gelatins, such as pectin, derived from plants, although these are carbohydrate-based and not chemically related to animal gelatins.  Kosher gelatin just has to come from the right animals.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear whether it&#8217;s more a cost issue (it may be) or just what works best as a gelling agent for a particular appliction.  The labels on food should give some indication of the derivation (e.g., pectin, carrageenan, or agar indicates vegetable derivation).  If it says &#8220;gelatin,&#8221; I&#8217;d assume that it&#8217;s animal-based.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is gelatin still made with animal bones? Like when they put gelatin in children&#8217;s cereals, is that vegetarian\/kosher?I guess it&#8217;s really a question of what is the least expensive if they are still using animal bones, right? ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: True gelatin is protein-based and rendered from the skin, cartilage, bone, etc. of animals. Yes, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/2007\/03\/12\/gelatin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What&#039;s gelatin made of?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6675,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/6675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}