| Vegan? No | Vegetarian? No |
Classifications are made based on the available commercial supply of the ingredient, and are made based on the criteria on our classifications page.
Commercially available abalone is not vegan or vegetarian.
Abalones are a type of sea snail with a hard calcium carbonate exoskeleton. Due to overfishing, some species are now listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act and many abalone are raised on commercial farms.