Ceramide as derive their vegan and vegetarian status from sphingosine, fatty acids.
| Vegan? Maybe | Vegetarian? Maybe |
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 ceramide as may be vegan depending on the source and may be vegetarian depending on the source.
Ceramide AS is the N-acylated sphingolipid consisting of sphingosine having the D-erythro structure linked to an alpha-hydroxy saturated or unsaturated fatty acid. No detailed information about how it is commercially manufactured is available online so we assume it comes from combining sphingosine and fatty acids.