Vegan with Trash Panda
Trash Panda is a food scanner app that reads the ingredient list for you. Scan a barcode at the grocery store and it flags every ingredient sourced from animals, so you can tell whether a product is vegan in seconds.
Animal ingredients hide behind names like whey, carmine and shellac. Here's how Trash Panda helps you catch them, plus our vegan product lists and guides.
How Trash Panda helps you eat vegan
- Flags animal ingredients. Scan any barcode and Trash Panda marks ingredients sourced from animals, including dairy, eggs and honey, and less obvious ones like carmine, shellac and vitamin D3.
- Tailors your results. Set Vegan as an ingredient preference and Trash Panda customizes your scan results around it. Ingredient preferences come with a Trash Panda subscription.
- Rates the whole ingredient list. Every product gets a rating based on all of its ingredients, so you can see what else is in a plant-based product, from gums and seed oils to added sugar.
- Explains every flag. Tap any ingredient to see why it's flagged and read the research behind it.
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Vegan product lists
Vegan foods our team picked for cleaner ingredient lists, from pantry staples to cheese alternatives. Recipes change, so scan each product before you buy.
Vegan Picks
Good Choice picks with no animal-derived ingredients, from pantry staples to snacks and desserts.
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Vegan Cheese Alternatives
Plant-based picks that melt, stretch, and actually deliver on flavor and quality.
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Plant-based guides
Where animal ingredients hide
Dairy and egg under other names
Whey, casein and sodium caseinate come from milk. Albumin and lysozyme come from eggs. They show up in protein bars, breads and "non-dairy" creamers. Trash Panda flags all of them.
Carmine, shellac and gelatin
Carmine is a red dye made from insects. Shellac, a shiny candy coating, comes from lac bugs. Gelatin is made from animal skin and bones. All three turn up in candy and snacks, and Trash Panda flags each one.
Honey and vitamin D3
Honey is an animal product, and so is most vitamin D3, which is usually made from lanolin in sheep's wool. Trash Panda flags both. Vitamin D2 and lichen-based D3 are vegan.
What Trash Panda's food scanner checks for you
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Avoid food dyes like Red 40, Red 3, Yellow 5, Blue 1, etc.
Scan food and spot seed oils like canola, soybean, sunflower and other refined oils.
Flag foods containing soy, dairy, gluten, and eggs.
Scan ingredients and spot ultra processed foods instantly.
Tap any ingredient to read the research behind every flag.
Bioengineered is another term for Genetically Modified Organisms, or GMOs.
Vegan FAQ
Avoiding gluten, soy or tree nuts too? See every dietary restriction Trash Panda supports.
Product ingredients can change, so Trash Panda may not always be accurate. Always check the packaging before you buy.