Anchovies — small fish: Found on pizzas and in some brands of Worcestershire Sauce. Animal fat — carcass fat not milk fat: May be found in biscuits, stock, as suet, in soap, pastry, margarines. Aspic — savoury jelly derived from meat or fish
Caviar — fish eggs Chitin — produced from crab and shrimp Cochineal — E120 made from crushed insects: Sometimes found in sweets, Campari as red colouring. E542 — not usually seen very much now but one to avoid, edible bone phosphate Gelatine/gelatin — a gelling agent derived from animal ligaments, skins, tendons, bones: May be used in jellies, yoghurts, wine, boiled sweets, capsules. Isinglass — a fining agent derived from the swim bladders of certain tropical fish: May be used in making alcohol. Calf Rennet — an enzyme taken from the stomach of a newly killed calf: Used in the cheese making process. Pepsin — Enzyme from a pigs stomach, used like rennet Whey — whey and whey powder are usually by–products of the cheese making process which may use animal rennet: Can be used in crisps as a flavour carrier.
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