Pokari Sweat

[purpletigron]

I think there are two people reading this LJ who might be able to help me with this one ... is Pokari Sweat suitable for vegans? Here is the label: http://pics.livejournal.com/purplecthulhu/pic/000057xx/g5

Comments

[drplokta]

The ingredients are here, and according to this site calcium lactate is vegan. There aren't any other actual food-like substances in it apart from sugar, so I can't see how it could not be vegan.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that. As far as I know, calcium lactate can be from different sources, some of which are not suitable for vegans, however. Then there are always the questions of animal testing, whether there is more than recipe etc.

I'm fairly sure that there aren't sheds of battery pokari animals sweating away to produce it, however ...

It was a gift from D from Japan - I don't usually spend hours agonizing over such things.