Post by tamuril on Feb 23, 2007 5:59:39 GMT -5
Gelatin: A colorless or slightly yellow, transparent, brittle protein formed by boiling the specially prepared skin, bones, and connective tissue of animals and used in foods, drugs, and photographic film.
Foods containing gelatin: Marshmellows, Jello, Trifles, Gummy Bears, Ice Cream, Jams, Yoghurts, Cream Cheese, Margarine and more.
"Gelatin is used for the clarification of juices, such as apple juice, and of vinegar. Isinglass, from the swim bladders of fish, is still in use as a fining agent for wine and beer. Beside hartshorn jelly, from deer antlers (hence the name "hartshorn"), isinglass was one of the oldest sources of gelatin.
- Wikipedia
Other uses:
I'm never eating anything that hasn't come directly from a tree or from the earth again. Excluding water, which I shall allow to fall from the sky.
Foods containing gelatin: Marshmellows, Jello, Trifles, Gummy Bears, Ice Cream, Jams, Yoghurts, Cream Cheese, Margarine and more.
"Gelatin is used for the clarification of juices, such as apple juice, and of vinegar. Isinglass, from the swim bladders of fish, is still in use as a fining agent for wine and beer. Beside hartshorn jelly, from deer antlers (hence the name "hartshorn"), isinglass was one of the oldest sources of gelatin.
- Wikipedia
Other uses:
- Cosmetics may contain a non-gelling variant of gelatin under the name "hydrolysed collagen".
- As a surface sizing it smooths glossy printing papers or playing cards and maintains the wrinkles in crepe paper.
- Used as a carrier, coating or separating agent for other substances, it, for example, makes beta-carotene water-soluble, thus imparting a yellow color to any soft drinks containing beta-carotene.
- It is used to hold silver halide crystals in an emulsion in virtually all photographic films and photographic papers.
- Gelatin is closely related to bone glue and is used as a binder in match heads and sandpaper.
I'm never eating anything that hasn't come directly from a tree or from the earth again. Excluding water, which I shall allow to fall from the sky.
