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"You are amazing, this has saved me so much time when grocery shopping!"
— Austin, a user who reached out with feedback
"It's been a great tool since starting my journey! You take a pic of the nutrition/ingredients, and it'll warn you of anything questionable or not vegan. 😁"
— Ashe, a Vegan For Beginners Facebook Group member
"Use a vegan app when you go shopping, I use WhatsVegan."
— Dóra, a Vegan For Beginners Facebook Group member
So, what is added to part skim milk?
The phrase "added to part skim milk" is a label fragment rather than a standalone ingredient, typically appearing on food packaging to indicate that a specific nutrient or additive was blended into dairy milk during processing. Part skim milk is obtained by mechanically separating a portion of the natural cream from whole cow milk to reduce its total fat content. Food manufacturers frequently include this phrasing on dairy goods such as part-skim mozzarella, ricotta cheese, yogurt, and fortified low-fat dairy drinks, commonly in reference to the fortification of vitamins like vitamin A palmitate or vitamin D3.
this item is not vegan because it explicitly refers to part skim milk, which is an animal-derived dairy product harvested from cows. Because the dairy industry relies entirely on animal agriculture, any component or formulation described as being added directly to cow milk inherently contains animal products. Consequently, any food item bearing this label phrasing is unsuitable for a vegan diet.
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