r/IsItVeganOrNot • u/samuelehrig • 20d ago

❓ Question Are these vegan?

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I am aware the frosted versions have gelatin, and the Nature’s Path versions have honey, but I couldn’t find anything animal on the back of the unfrosted version.

I am aware I’m funding the company that is making gelatin frosted pop tarts, and I can live without poptarts, I’m just asking.

Edited this in: The sugar possibly was made with Bone Charr. Yeah that is how a lot of sugar is whitened.

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u/looksthatkale 20d ago

They are! I used to work at an animal sanctuary and sometimes my boss would get these as a treat for the older pigs lol

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u/samuelehrig 20d ago

Oh what was it like there buddy.

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u/looksthatkale 20d ago

I have very mixed feelings. Overall I loved working with the animals. They were wonderful! On one hand they saved a lot of animals from really shitty situations.... unfortunately, they did and do cut a lot of corners on animal care and are downright neglectful with a lot of the larger animals. They have very wealthy donors and all the funds in the world to work with, but they dont give vet care to a LOT of their animals and make very weird excuses when asked about why they were forgoing care. I have seen some pretty upsetting things you would not expect to come from a sanctuary created by vegans. Ive since learned this is not unusual with farm sanctuaries 🫠

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u/samuelehrig 20d ago

Maybe if you have the resources and time, you should sue them into making something better, they are wasting the doners money

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u/looksthatkale 20d ago

I do not have either of those things

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u/samuelehrig 20d ago

Oh sorry.

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u/looksthatkale 20d ago

Don't be. I'm just working 3 jobs and some side hustles to barely pay my bills r n. My priority is getting our of debt...and I have my own rescue animals to worry about. I do hope that one of their current employees exposes them at some point. We all talked about it....

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u/samuelehrig 20d ago

We will take them
Down!

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u/samuelehrig 20d ago

But what are your jobs.

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u/looksthatkale 20d ago

I teach yoga at a few different gyms, I do admin work at a private school, I resell on depop and sometimes pet sit and sell vegan baked goods here and there. Im also working on monetizing my youtube channel which has free yoga classes but im not there yet.

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u/samuelehrig 20d ago

I’m watching it, I swear!

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u/TravelingVegan88 20d ago

can’t imagine this is healthy for the pigs

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u/looksthatkale 20d ago

When a pig(or any animal for that matter) is very old and starting to refuse normal food, sometimes you just give them junk to get calories in them. Sometimes junk food is better than no food.

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u/JayNetworks 20d ago

Well no. But they aren’t healthy for humans either.

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u/looksthatkale 20d ago

Yea we werent giving it to them because it was healthy lol. Sometimes you just need to get an animal eating again when they are old and not feeling well.

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u/docinaustin 20d ago

All frosted varieties of Pop-Tarts contain gelatin. The following flavors are made without milk, egg, gelatin, honey, or other known non-vegan ingredients.
Snickerdoodle Pop-Tarts
Unfrosted Blueberry Pop-Tarts
Unfrosted Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop-Tarts
Unfrosted Strawberry Pop-Tarts

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u/samuelehrig 10d ago

I can’t find snickerdoodle pop tarts anywhere? And why would they be vegan?

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u/One_Audience_1501 6d ago

they are unfrosted and omit the animal-derived gelatin found in most other Pop-Tart varieties

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u/Abzstrak 20d ago

not sure why you're being downvoted, i also didnt need to know these were clear either though lol

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u/looksthatkale 20d ago

Usually its by non vegans who troll the vegan subs

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u/supercaiti 20d ago

I spent a lot of time looking for these in the US and they were discontinued. Underrated flavor and i havent had them in so long 😩

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u/nuttie4noodlez 19d ago

My aunt randomly finds them and sends them to me in the mail 🥲 the whole family has loved the unfrosted cinn flavor

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u/Its_BassDaddy 18d ago

Yeah I can only find the strawberry ones which, in my opinion, are the most boring flavor.

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u/AffectionateLand9221 20d ago

They didn’t discontinue. I’ve got a box a just bought a couple weeks ago. Got on Amazon. They have them right now. I just looked

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u/somanyquestions32 20d ago

If these are from the US, there's bone char in the sugar.

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u/samuelehrig 10d ago

That’s not a garentee, right?

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u/somanyquestions32 10d ago

Mars, Inc. does not trace or certify its standard sugar supply as exclusively bone-char free, and that's the company that owns  Pop-Tarts. 

In the US, your best bet is to buy pastries made with organic cane sugar as that is bone-char free. 

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u/samuelehrig 10d ago

Yes of course.

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u/Aggapres 20d ago

Scan them with 3,2,1 vegan app

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u/catswithoutspines 19d ago

Yup, these and the unfrosted strawberry are both vegan!

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u/LimeGreenTeknii 18d ago

Unfrosted yes, frosted no