Comments on: Are pizzas without cheese always vegan? http://www.heenamodi.com/2008/05/21/are-pizzas-without-cheese-always-vegan/ thinking globally, acting locally Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:09:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sagar http://www.heenamodi.com/2008/05/21/are-pizzas-without-cheese-always-vegan/comment-page-1/#comment-10580 Sagar Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:29:17 +0000 http://www.heenamodi.com/?p=175#comment-10580 Pizza Expresses bases may be vegan but do you know why so many of their pasta dished aren't vegan? Here's the answer.... Pizza express now state on their menu that many of their pasta dishes can be made vegetarian if the parmesan (actually Grana Padano) is removed...(prior to this, any dish with parmesan was not labelled as vegetarian, even if it did not contain any other non-vegetarian dishes) because it contains rennet from calf. Why? 'Parmesan cheese' cannot be vegetarian - because of the fact that in the EU in order for it to be legally called Parmesan or "Parmigiano-Reggiano" - it must come from the Northern Italy area where animal rennet is used. Pizza Expresses bases may be vegan but do you know why so many of their pasta dished aren’t vegan? Here’s the answer….

Pizza express now state on their menu that many of their pasta dishes can be made vegetarian if the parmesan (actually Grana Padano) is removed…(prior to this, any
dish with parmesan was not labelled as vegetarian, even if it did not contain any other non-vegetarian dishes) because it contains rennet from calf.

Why? ‘Parmesan cheese’ cannot be vegetarian – because of the fact that in the EU in order for it to be legally called Parmesan or “Parmigiano-Reggiano” – it must come from
the Northern Italy area where animal rennet is used.

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