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The Smarties Project

Bad news for all you Jewish vegetarians: Smarties are neither vegetarian nor kosher!

Purple Smarties are dyed with cochineal (carminic acid), which is made from ground-up pregnant Cochineal insects. Because of this, Smarties cannot be considered either vegetarian or kosher, or, for that matter, particularly appetizing.

In 2004, The Vegetarian Society declared Smarties the winner […]