Is tammy vegan?
Tammy is a non-vegan food ingredient.
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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 tammy?
On food labels, tammy is not an actual ingredient but an optical character recognition (OCR) scanning error or misspelling of tallow. Tallow is a rendered fat extracted from the fatty tissue of cattle or sheep. It is manufactured by cooking animal tissues at high temperatures to melt and separate the liquid fat from connective tissue and protein solids. In commercial food production, it is typically used as a frying medium, a shortening agent in pastries and pie crusts, and a richness enhancer in savory sauces, gravies, and packaged snacks.
This entry is classified as not vegan because it refers to rendered livestock fat. Obtaining tallow requires slaughtering animals, making any item containing it incompatible with a vegan lifestyle. Shoppers encountering this term in ingredient apps or digital text scans should check the physical packaging to verify the correct label wording, which almost always confirms tallow or another animal-derived fat.
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