Alkali derives its vegan and vegetarian status from potassium carbonate, sodium carbonate, sodium hydroxide.
| Vegan? Yes | Vegetarian? Yes |
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 alkali is vegan and vegetarian.
Alkali usually appears in an ingredient list as something like "cocoa processed with alkali" which gets split into cocoa and alkali. In these cases it is referring to dutch processed cocoa which is cocoa processed with an alkalizing agent like potassium carbonate, sodium carbonate, or sodium hydroxide.