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Episode 15 Is Wine Vegan And Why Not?

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Welcome to Healthy Vegan Living podcast. I'm your host. My name is Gary. Episode 15 is wine vegan and why Not?  Come listen to me on your favorite podcast app. My show can be heard on the following podcast Podbeen App, Spotify, Amazon Music/Audible, iHeartRadio, Player FM, Listen Notes, Samsung, Boomplay, and now Tumblr.   If you like this podcast or any of my episodes, why not buy me a cup of coffee? The address will be in the show notes.  Wine is a fermented grape, and yeast is added that changes the grape from the grape juice into wine. Up to this point, Vegans are happy, but in the Fining phase, the clarification phase of wine it changes to a nonvegan beverage.  To save money and operating costs, fining agents are used to clear the wine. There can be any of these; casein (milk protein) albumin (egg whites), gelatin (animal protein) isinglas (fish bladder), Ox blood, bone marrow, chitin (fibers from the crustacean shells), fish oil, alcohol, milk and cream, whey (lactose).  As o