Part of belonging to a family means we each step up to help each other. While our first role in a family is as a dependent child, the part we play is never smallâand it continues to grow in scope and importance as we mature. It is our duty, even a sacred responsibility, to care for those in our family.
But with gelatin, there seems to be a conflict. Gelatin is almost entirely protein and is derived from collagen in the skin and bones of an animal. Most all of the gelatin in our food is made from pork, even kosher gelatin. In fact, kosher gelatin can be made from any animal. about 90% of American gelatin is porcine â made from pigs. Rabbi Dovid Cohen. oukosher.org/blog/consumer-kosher/gelatin-revisited.
Gelatin is used in molded desserts and salads and to thicken cold soups. The raw material for gelatin is the naturally occuring protein, collagen, which is commercially obtained from the meat industry (pure protein derived from beef and veal bones, cartilage, tendons, skin and connective tissue).Most commercial gelatin is produced from pig skin.The cleaning and processing of collagen results in a pale yellow dry powder -- an odorless, tasteless thickening agent. When dissolved in hot water then cooled, it forms a jelly.ost commercial gelatin is produced from pig skin. The cleaning and processing of collagen results in a pale yellow dry powder -- an odorless, tasteless thickening agent. When dissolved in hot water then cooled, it forms a jelly.