is-vegan

Is-Vegan helps you to find out which food ingredients are vegan / non-vegan. It can answer that on 1 ingredient or on a list of ingredients. It uses a 850+ entries list of non-vegan ingredients.

How to use?

Why?

We are aware that 'veganism' and the definition of it can be a hot topic. We created the non-vegan list keeping in mind that veganism in dietary terms, it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals.

Our first step is the approach to help people understand, which products, and where applicable its ingredients, do not involve, or have involved, the use of any animal product, by-product or derivative. It is not driven about any vegan lifestyle choice or stereotype. We welcome and appreciate any help and concerence regarding the nonvegan/canbevegan list.

Currently we are unfortunatly not adressing any other forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for clothing, cosmetics or any other purpose.

Thank you all for your comments, we appreciate the discussion, as we grow and learn from your input.

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Sources

We want to make sure that you understand how is-vegan is implemented. We analyzed as many good information websites for vegan / non-vegan ingredients as we found to get a very accurate list of ingredients. However, feel free to send a pull request with an updated version of the list.

Websites we parsed:

• veganpeace
• peta
• veganwolf
• happycow

and we added also a few ourselves...

Usage

Add

yarn add is-vegan

or

npm install is-vegan --save

Available Languages

The library supports the following languages using ISO 639-1 codes:

• en - English (default)
• it - Italian
• es - Spanish
• fr - French
• de - German

example

const isVegan = require('is-vegan');

// or

import * as isVegan from 'is-vegan';

// example for single ingredient
isVegan.isVeganIngredient('soy'); // true
isVegan.isVeganIngredient('milk'); // false

// example for list of ingredients
isVegan.isVeganIngredientList(['aspic', 'albumin']); // false
isVegan.isVeganIngredientList(['soy', 'cacao butter']); // true

// example for list of ingredients
isVegan.containsNonVeganIngredients(['aspic', 'albumin', 'soy']); // ['aspic', 'albumin']
isVegan.containsNonVeganIngredients(['soy', 'cacao butter']); // []

// example for list of ingredients wich contain flagged and non-vegan ingredients
isVegan.checkIngredients(['soy', 'cacao butter', 'pork', 'beef', 'glycine']);
// returns
// {
//   nonvegan: ['pork', 'beef'],
//   flagged: ['glycine']
// }

// example for list of ingredients in Italian language
isVegan.setIngredientsLanguage('it'); // 'it' is the two-letter ISO 639-1 code for the Italian language
isVegan.checkIngredients([
  'manzo',
  'maiale',
  'glicina',
  'biotina',
  'soia',
  'aglio',
]);
// returns
// {
//   nonvegan: ['manzo', 'maiale'],
//   flagged: ['glicina', 'biotina']
// }

// example for list of ingredients in Spanish language
isVegan.setIngredientsLanguage('es'); // 'es' is the two-letter ISO 639-1 code for the Spanish language
isVegan.checkIngredients([
  'carne de res',
  'cerdo',
  'glicina',
  'soja',
  'ajo',
]);
// returns
// {
//   nonvegan: ['carne de res', 'cerdo'],
//   flagged: ['glicina']
// }

// example for list of ingredients in French language
isVegan.setIngredientsLanguage('fr'); // 'fr' is the two-letter ISO 639-1 code for the French language
isVegan.checkIngredients([
  'bœuf',
  'porc',
  'glycine',
  'soja',
  'ail',
]);
// returns
// {
//   nonvegan: ['bœuf', 'porc'],
//   flagged: ['glycine']
// }

// example for list of ingredients in German language
isVegan.setIngredientsLanguage('de'); // 'de' is the two-letter ISO 639-1 code for the German language
isVegan.checkIngredients([
  'rindfleisch',
  'schwein',
  'glyzin',
  'soja',
  'knoblauch',
]);
// returns
// {
//   nonvegan: ['rindfleisch', 'schwein'],
//   flagged: ['glyzin']
// }

// or

import { checkIngredients } from 'is-vegan';

// example for list of ingredients wich contain flagged and non-vegan ingredients
checkIngredients(['soy', 'cacao butter', 'pork', 'beef', 'glycine']);

// returns
// {
//   nonvegan: ['pork', 'beef'],
//   flagged: ['glycine']
// }

real world example

Products searched on USDA Food Composition Databases

const isVegan = require('is-vegan');

// MOSER ROTH, DARK CHOCOLATE
isVegan.isVeganIngredientList([
  'COCOA LIQUOR',
  'SUGAR',
  'COCOA BUTTER',
  'ALKALIZED REDUCED FAT COCOA POWDER',
  'SOY LECITHIN EMULSIFIER',
  'GROUND VANILLA',
]); // returns true

Checkout: RunKit "is-vegan-playground" for more examples

Test

yarn test

Updating and translating the lists

The canbevegan and nonvegan English lists are located in the i18n/en directory. The ingredients in these English lists are sorted in alphabetical order.

The lists' translations are located in the corresponding language directory under i18n. The ingredients in these Non-English lists are not sorted in alphabetical order, instead they maintain the order of the English lists.
So if, for example, the "biotin" ingredient is positioned at line 16 in the English canbevegan list, then its corresponding translation "biotina" in the Italian canbevegan list should also be positioned at line 16.
If the "bacon" ingredient is positioned at line 49 in the English nonvegan list, then its corresponding translation "pancetta" in the Italian nonvegan list should also be positioned at line 49.

Steps to add a new ingredient to the lists

1. Add the ingredient to the canbevegan or nonvegan English list, ensuring that the list alphabetical order is preserved.
2. Add the translated ingredient to each of the existing Non-English lists at the same line number as the ingredient appears in the corresponding English list.

Steps to translate the lists to a new language

1. Create a directory with the two-letter code (ISO 639-1) of the new language.
2. Translate the English lists to the new language and save these to newly created list files under the new language directory. Ensure that the ingredients in each of these new list files appear in the same order as in the corresponding English list.

Thanks for translating the lists to italian

gianantoniopini

Alfred Workflow by Kyle Brumm (kjbrum)

alfred-is-vegan

TODO

• extend list

Authors

• Hamed Montazeri
• Meike Rittmeier