An Oreo cookie split into the cookie side and the “creme” side. Oreo has to call the white center “creme” instead of “cream” because the FDA does not allow manufacturers to use the word “cream” to describe a food that contains no cream at all. Without any animal or dairy products, these chocolate sandwich cookies are now basically vegan.
Yes, Oreo lists the ingredients on the back of the package, but the order of ingredients doesn’t distinguish between cookie and filling. That being said, using simple methods of deduction, we were able to gleam from the ingredient list that the filling is likely made of sugar, palm and/or canola oil,
Because the filling doesn’t contain any actual cream, the FDA requires that Oreos be labeled “creme”-filled instead of cream-filled. So does the lack of cream or butter make the world’s best-selling cookie accidentally vegan?
An Oreo cookie split into the cookie side and the “creme” side. Oreo has to call the white center “creme” instead of “cream” because the FDA does not allow manufacturers to use the word “cream” to describe a food that contains no cream at all.
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