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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 cornstrach?
Cornstrach is a typographical error or misspelling on food packaging for cornstarch, a carbohydrate extracted from the endosperm of corn kernels. On an ingredient label, this term represents standard cornstarch. It is produced by steeping whole corn kernels, separating the outer hull and germ, grinding the remaining endosperm, and washing and drying the resulting slurry into a fine white powder. Food manufacturers commonly use it as a thickening agent, stabilizer, and anti-caking agent in sauces, gravies, soups, baked goods, puddings, and processed snack foods.
cornstrach is vegan because the substance is entirely of plant origin. The commercial extraction and refinement of cornstarch rely on physical and mechanical separation methods involving water, with no animal-derived raw materials, processing aids, or animal byproducts utilized at any stage of production. Because it is derived solely from maize, any product listing this ingredient meets vegan standards.
We've built a vegan ingredients scanner that classifies food ingredients as "vegan", "non-vegan", or "potentially vegan".
It allows you to avoid non-vegan ingredients - just take a picture of a product's ingredient list, and the app tells you if the product is vegan or not.
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