Hi,
I have been told by many people that some of Green & Blacks chocolate bars are completely vegan. This is including the G & B Mint.
So while standing at in the line with my groceries in hand I boxes of them on the end caps and had to try one. The ingredients list seemed safe and so i added it to my grocery pile.
I ate some and was bored investigating the package and reading the inside and out and then my eyes scanned over the nutritional information and I saw:
"Cholesterol 4mg"
No I have been vegan for quite some time and I must be misinformed about cholesterol and vegan food but I was told that cholesterol was of strictly animal based origins.
At this point I put down the candy bar, and go to a little more research. Everywhere i look says that this candy bar is VEGAN. i also read that minuscule amounts of cholesterol derive from plants and fungi.
Still 4mg seems to be alot!
So my questions are:
Is Green and Black's Mint Bar Vegan? And where is the cholesterol deriving from?
and more importantly...
What are the main Vegan food sources of cholesterol? What are the health benefits of cholesterol, if any?