Plant-Based Imposters
Now that plant-based diets are mainstream, you’d think that shopping for vegetarian and vegan groceries would be easy. But some products that seem like they don’t have animal products — baked beans, candy with red dye, and Parmesan cheese, to name a few — aren’t even vegetarian. That’s true even at Trader Joe’s, where there are plenty of plant-based alternatives, as Redditors recently pointed out.
To keep you from accidentally breaking your vegetarianism or veganism, we’ve listed five seemingly plant-based products that either contain meat or dairy.
