[FATFREE Home] [Recipe Archive] [About the Mailing List and how to join]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Genetically altered veggies, yoghurt

Sharon wrote:
>
> Andrea referred to the Orthodox ruling on the use of Quinoa, which 
reminded
> me of an article I recently read on genetically engineered vegetables.
> Apparantly tomatoes are genetically altered with the use of DNA from 
North
> Atlantic flounder and shellfish.  Surely these 'mutant tomatoes'
> (unfortunate as they may be) are still kosher, are they not?

Better ask your rabbi. Are they still vegetarian, I wonder? How would one 
know if one was eating one? Are they marked in any way?

Bobby wrote:
>
> Hello all. Does anyone know of a brand of FF yogurt without gelatin or
> pectin that one could use to make yogurt "cheese"? It seems that all the
> yogurts I find have one of two ingredients in them and can't be used.
> Thanks

I believe that Astro yoghurt doesn't contain pectin (I know for a fact that 
it doesn't contain gelatin).  I don't know if it's available in the US, 
though.

Be well, Hadass, way way way behind, as usual.

Dr. Hadass Eviatar (XX)				mailto:eviatar@xxxxxxxxxx
National Research Council of Canada		Phone: (204) 984 - 4535
Institute for Biodiagnostics			Fax:     (204) 984 - 7036
435 Ellice Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, R3B 1Y6	http://www.ibd.nrc.ca/~eviatar
  -- Guard your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit  -- 
Psalm 32

------------------------------