Wrigley Products

Information gathered on April 19th, 2010.

Via phone with Wrigley customer service.

Wrigley products include Altoids, Life Savers, Skittles, Starburst, and the gum brands 5, Eclipse, Extra, Orbit, amongst others.

The only ingredient used in any Wrigley product is gelatin, which is always listed in the ingredients on the package. Most gums do not have gelatin, though a few flavors of a few types do. The sugar in their products is not filtered through bone char.

Caution should be exercised in purchasing Skittles, as while they are currently no longer made with gelatin, some bags with the old recipe are still on shelves. Ingredient lists should be checked on each bag before purchase.

Burgerville

Information gathered on Sep 21, 2009

Via phone with Burgerville customer service, and the online ingredient list.

The following are vegan:

Fried Items (may be fried in shared oil, ask at location before ordering):
French Fries, Sweet Potato Fries

Vegan Tidbits:
Apple Slices, Ketchup, Lettuce, Tomato, Pickles

The hamburger buns have both enzymes and mono and diglicerides of unknown origin (the company is going to get back to me on it).
The Spicy Anasazi Bean Burger Patty has honey in it.
The Oregon Harvest Burger Patty is vegan, though no word on how it is cooked (ask before ordering).

Oreos

Information gathered on Apr 13, 2009

Via phone with Kraft consumer relations.

The sugar in Oreo cookies is always cane sugar.

The ingredient "chocolate" contains no dairy.

Ritz Crackers

Information gathered on Apr 13, 2009

Via phone call to Kraft consumer relations.

The sugar used in Nabisco Ritz Crackers is always cane sugar.

The natural flavors are not animal derived.

Sara Lee Baked Goods

Information Gathered on Nov 19, 2008

Information gathered via phone, and only valid for their baked goods line of products.

All glycerides are not vegan.  That is to say that no products with glycerides in them are vegan.

All sugar used is beet sugar, never cane, and is thus vegan.

Chipotle

Information Gathered Apr 13, 2009

From the Chipotle Website FAQ.

I am a vegan. What can I eat?

You should avoid our pinto beans (they are cooked with a small amount of bacon), meats (duh, I know), cheese, sour cream, and chipotle-honey vinaigrette.

Additionally, I have been told by Chipotle managers that policy is to have one tortilla warmer (the one nearest the rice usually) be used exclusively for plain tortillas, while the other is for quesadillas, so as to prevent cross contamination.  You should make sure that your tortilla does not come out of the warmer used for the quesadillas.

Additionally, any frequent Chipotle visitor will notice that often the gloved hands come in contact with the meat, pinto beans, and cheese.  You should ask for your preparer to change their gloves before making your food.  Also, watch out for cheese, which has a propensity to fall into the guacamole.  Asking them to scoop yours from the far left corner of the container (from their point of view) will minimize this.

Taco Bell

Information gathered on Oct 23, 2008

This information was attained using the downloadable nutrition information from the Taco Bell website.  Where that form was unclear, extensive phone calls were made.  Despite this, I was unable to determine the source of the sugar in the products.  The following is a list of individual ingredients, not of menu items.  Thus while the nacho chips or potato bites are vegan, what they are normally topped with may not be.

The following ingredients are vegan - Beans, Hot Sauce, Green Chili/Tomatillo Sauce, Lettuce, Mild Sauce, Nacho Chips, Onions, Potato Bites, Red Sauce, Rice, Salsa, Taco Salad Shell, Taco Shell,  Tomatoes,Tostada

The following ingredients are vegan with the exception the sugar in them, which, as stated, may or may not be vegan – Citrus Salsa, Fire Sauce, Flour Tortilla, Guacamole, Pizza Sauce 

The following ingredients are not vegan (this is not a complete list, but only contains things which might be accidentally mistaken as vegan) - Chapula Shell, Chili, Cinnamon Twists, Creamy Sauces, Empanada, Flat Bread, Pizza Shell, Red Strips