![]() ![]() 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.
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