kartooner

The ques­tion on everyone’s mind these days is whether or not Jell-O is made from ani­mal hides and bones. Well, look no fur­ther because accord­ing to Snopes.com “Some­times the most innocu­ous of food­stuffs con­tain con­stituents whose ori­gins are less than appetizing.”

The spe­cific arti­cle in mind sheds light on this pon­der­ing explain­ing that “under­neath JELL-O’s jig­gly whole­some­ness lurks a secret many con­sumers are dis­con­certed to learn: JELL-O is made from gelatin, an ani­mal prod­uct ren­dered from the hides and bones of animals.”

Accord­ing to the arti­cle, cre­at­ing gelatin begins with the process of boil­ing the skins, hides and bones of cows and pigs which secretes a pro­tein rich col­la­gen. This sub­stance is then boiled and fil­tered numer­ous times and then ground into a fine pow­der and accord­ing to Gov­ern­ment reg­u­la­tion the result is nei­ther cat­e­go­rized as ani­mal or meat.

The pop­u­lar rumor is that Jell-O is made with the hooves of horses and cows, which accord­ing to par­ent com­pany Kraft is a mis­con­cep­tion con­sid­er­ing the hooves do not con­tain the nec­es­sary ingre­di­ents for the col­la­gen.

http://www.snopes.com