Quizno’s Vegan Bread
I wrote a letter to Quizno’s recently to find out if their bread had any dairy/honey/eggs/other vegan no-nos, and I actually got a letter back in the mail yesterday:
In response to your inquiry on bread ingredients I can tell you we have no animal or dairy derived products in any of our breads except the cheese in the rosemary parmesan bread. We get many inquiries from vegans and with the exception of the cheese bread there are no problems in eating any of our breads. Some bakeries use an animal-based L-Cysteine(1) as a dough relaxant in the dough conditioners; we do not. We have also eliminated all hydrogenated oils and shortenings from our breads long ago so our bread servings have 0 grams of trans fat. Our ciabatta has only flour, water, salt, starter and olive oil and is baked in stone hearth ovens.
Add another chain restaurant to your list of vegan safe houses.
Footnotes
- As an aside to this, Einstein Brothers uses L-Cysteine derived from duck feathers, a fact I discovered when I wrote the company to inquire about their ingredients. While Panera uses L-Cysteine in their bagels as well, they verified via email to their corporate office that they only use plant/synthetic sources for it. Vote appropriately with your dollars.
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October 3rd, 2007 at 12:57:28
When I wrote to Panera Bread recently(few days ago, Sep 2007) they confirmed that source of L-Cystein in their bagels is animal based. I am wondering what is correct. Here is what they wrote:
Here is the response from our nutrition department: The mono and diglycerides are vegetable sourced. The L-cysteine is currently animal sourced, but we are working on finding another source for the L-cysteine in the future. Hope this informaiton helps.
Best regards,
October 3rd, 2007 at 13:05:06
Curious. Most curious. Here’s what I got from their corporate office in February 2006:
Hard to say which is the truth, but your response is certainly the most recent.