Urgent Need Advice

[TeriSharan.]

I NEED URGENT ADVICE ON WHETHER WHEY POWDER OR WHEY IS VEGETARIAN!!

IF IT IS OR NOT CAN YOU PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY?

PLEASE REPLY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!

NO ARGUEMENTS PLEASE

THANKS

[Ambrosia]

Gurfateh Ji

When you do a google of what is Whey Powder they say : Whey or milk plasma is the liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained; it is a by-product of the manufacture of cheese or casein ... (so whey powder is whey liquid dried up)...

Have you ever seen paneer being made? When the lemon juice is added to the warm milk, a reaction happens and the milk starts to curdle (separating the milk solids that are white, from an almost transparent liquid)... the transparentish liquid is Whey. So simply, it is a dairy by-product.

In that way, it's ok for lacto-vegetarians (ie. Sikhs). However it would be good to know HOW the whey was made --- Paneer uses lemon juice to curd the milk, but other cheeses use an animal (stomach lining of baby cows) called Rennet to curd the milk. So... whey made by lemon juice would be ok, but whey made by rennet would not really be ok. Makes sense?

Hope this helps...

[mskcan]

I NEED URGENT ADVICE ON WHETHER WHEY POWDER OR WHEY IS VEGETARIAN!!

IF IT IS OR NOT CAN YOU PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY?

PLEASE REPLY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!

NO ARGUEMENTS PLEASE

THANKS

Please read here:

http://sikhinspiredfitness.forums-free.com...lit=rennet#p722

If you don't trust the product, email the manufacturer, for example:

*Here is an email from a manufacturer that I get my supplements from:

"None of the cheese processes that our whey is made from uses animal enzymes rennet.

VP Sales/Marketing"

If you are purchasing online, look for these symbols:

for vegetarian or lacto vegetarian

for Vegan

K = Kosher, which means that it if it is a vegetarian product, it does not have any animal byproducts in it

H = Halal, which means that if it is a vegetarian product, it has no animal by products in it that otherwise have not been killed in the muslim method

Whey Protein is Lacto-Vegetarian, Final Answer

[huggy bear]

yes it is ok