datem

Datem derives its vegan and vegetarian status from tartaric acid, monoglycerides.

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.

Datem, or diacetyltartaric esters of monoglycerides are produced from tartaric acid and monoglycerides. This is probably vegan, but since monoglycerides may come from animal sources it can't be marked definitely vegan.

Sources

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=m9J9pTDZEGEC