For the same reason, they have no social media presence. The line caters primarily to Food Service and Food Manufacturers, and this is why you might find their site very scientific and technical, to the point of seeming arcane. How do you procure Fit Gelatins Products? It is also worth noting that agar agar, unlike animal-derived gelatins, has none of the protein animal-derived gelatin is abundantly endowed with. Those who don’t work mostly with seaweed-derived agar agar. It takes a little more know-how than its no-fail animal-derived counterpart. Strictly speaking, the animal source having undergone a process that denatures it, Vegan diners could use it. It is now much too far removed from its primary sources, in other words, denatured, and can be used for anything, dairy, meat or fish, as it is 100% Pareve. Gelatin originated with beef, pork, fish, but processing the bone collagen, then cooking it to obtain the gelatin, denatures beef, pork or fish as we know it. WOW, right? This phenom is what is called in the Food Industry “denatured”. Orthodontists of the world rejoice: every sticky gummy treat is now available to the kosher consumer. Therefore, even kosher milk chocolate delicacies can be made with kosher beef gelatin. Strikingly, this variety of beef-derived gelatin is considered pareve, and may even be combined with dairy ingredients! Although kosher laws are very strict concerning the segregation of milk and meat, the processing of these hides renders them pareve. This special kosher gelatin is made exclusively from the skins of kosher ritually slaughtered cows. He confirmed what I had been reading in an article in the OU Magazine but somehow could not wrap my head around: here is the excerpt that is the greatest game changer for us Kosher Consumers: Fantastic product. I had the pleasure of chatting with the lovely owner, David Holzer. My research on the subject recently led me to Fit Gelatin Brand. I have always been tinkering with gelatin and all its possibilities. Who remembers the now extinct Kolatin Brand? Enter Fit Gelatins Brand Sorry but I’ll pass.įor a period of time, it was made somewhat more accessible for the Kosher Food Service to obtain real kosher gelatin. And sure enough, Bingo! Kosher Jell-O that looks and gells and jiggles exactly like its bovine and porcine counterpart, shimmering in all its garish fake jewel color glory, nutritionally and gastronomically worthless. So food manufacturers came up with an all-chemical look-alike: carrageenan, sugar, artificial flavorings and colorings. And vegetarians and vegans stay away with a vengeance from all of the above. Both Halal and Kosher-keeping consumers steer clear of pig-derived products. In other words, verboten to the Kosher public and quite a few others. Gelatin is obtained from cooking the collagen (bones) of pigs, cows or fish. But the coast is clear again: bring on the fresh free-form salads and the mason jar desserts! Kosher Gelatin All I can say is, Thank Goodness, the Neat Dish Brigade is gone now! It died hard, I know. The story also describes why and how the infamous molded dinner fell out of fashion and out of grace. Cooks in this era molded everything from cooked spinach to chicken salad, with care to avoid the cardinal sin of messiness” Tossed salads were not cool: Imagine that! Sarah Grey writes: “ Jellied salads, unlike tossed ones, were mess-free, never transgressing the border of the plate: “A salad at last in control of itself,” Shapiro writes. Generations before ours frowned on messy salads and worked hard on neatly shaped dishes. Jell-O as emblem of social status: Jeez Louise! Who knew? “Few foods can tell us more about life in 20th-century America than the wobbling jewel of domestic achievement: the Jell-O salad” I highly recommend Sarah Grey’s informative and edifying article on the subject, Social History of Jell-o Salads: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon Boy I’m so glad I was never a guest at a table where the hostess proudly served her … um… interesting canned-vegetable jell-o mold! I would first have had to practice my poker face in front of a mirror! And let’s face it, sometimes they looked downright gross. Gelatin molds were all the rage then they looked anywhere from downright funky to vaguely menacing. Saying that Gelatin has a checkered and often controversial lineage is an understatement. The word alone exerts an irresistible and often unwelcome pull back to the 50s block party and sisterhood meeting days when a gelatin mold dish of some sort was de rigueur.
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