Are Mission chips vegan?

Question

Are Mission chips vegan?

Answer 1

Mission Chips

Answer 2

You could call them to find out:



Mission Foods is dedicated to helping our customers in every possible way. Whether you need product information, technical support or would simply like to learn more about Mission Foods, we have a trained customer service staff standing by to assist you.



Mission Foods Toll-Free Support Line: 1-800-443-7994.



Mission Foodservice

P.O. Box 2008

Oldsmar, FL 34677-7008

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Email Us: Contact Mission Foods

Answer 3

Do you buy vegetables from the grocery store? If you do, you aren't a vegan anyways so why worry about the chips? Commercially grown produce is fertilized with rendered animal parts and that makes them non-vegan.



If they are made from corn or wheat you can bet the plants were fertilized in this way.

Answer 4

Mission Foods Corn products are produced with 100% corn flour; wheat ingredients are not added to the formulation. These products include Corn Tortillas, Corn Tortilla Chips, Taco Shells, Tostadas, Corn Gorditas, and Sopes. These products are produced in plants that also process wheat tortillas.

Hpe that helps.

To Nine Crimes: It matters to vegetarians and vegans.

It is the V&V section....duh

Answer 5

Yeah they are. Do they look deep fried in animal fat? No ^__^ Yeah don't worry about it.

Answer 6

They could fry it in animal tainted oils and you would never know it. The only way you can be sure if it is 100% vegan is to switch to cow chips.



I can attest to the fact that cow chips are 100% vegan, with no contamination. I mean if you can trust a cow, who can you trust.



Only the TRUE vegans will immediately go out into a pasture and gather cow chips ...YUMMY. . . "Vegans--Eating Crap to Protect Animals".

Answer 7

Why the hell does it matter?



I didn't ask why it matters to me, I was asking why it matters to vegetarians and vegans. Did you really miss the point of my question by that much? Either way, it's a rhetorical question with the implied answer, "It doesn't and shouldn't matter to anyone."

Answer 8

just eat it

Answer 9

I'm assuming you're talking about their corn chips (all I've ever run across from Mission). As long as the chips are 'plain' there shouldn't be any problem with them. Just be very careful about flavored chips since that's where the non-veg ingredients come into play with corn chips (I've got no idea if they make flavored corn chips).



As a general rule the processing of corn tortillas is on dedicated equipment and there's not much chance of cross-contamination in that part of production.



The same goes for fryers used to make corn chips from the tortillas (*unless* mission also makes pork rinds). If they make flavored chips in addition to unflavored that would normally be the point where animal ingredients would be involved since dairy and other animal 'stuff' is frequently used in the production and application of flavorings. That would be the most likely point of cross-contamination, but from experience production lines get a *massive* clean-up between production runs.



Keep in mind that with nationwide companies production isn't usually confined to one production plant, they'll have several and may even lease space on other companies production lines. You've got to check with the company for details, asking them this question can help since it's a legally binding question:



"Does your product contain any animal ingredients, or any ingredients processed with animal products, or any ingredients that originally derived from an animal source and/or are any products originally from an animal source used in the manufacture of your product?"



I don't have any link that detail the production practices of Mission (or any other tortilla/chip maker for that matter). My knowledge has been obtained from the years I spent taking care of industrial process control systems.