1. Watch Out for Hidden Animal Products. When you order food in a Chinese restaurant, you canât just assume that the General Tsoâs Tofu or Vegetable Lo Mein is vegan. Many restaurants use chicken broth or fish broth in most of their sauces and soups, even the tofu and veggie dishes and vegetable soups. Restaurants may have one homemade stock that they use and it often contains animal products. Some Chinese dishes, like lo mein, often have egg in them. I ate steamed veggie dumplings a lot before I realized I should ask about the dumpling wrappers and to my despair, they did have egg in them. Most wrappers for dumplings and spring rolls do. Another time, I ordered a vegetable dish only to receive shrimp.
Common side effects of activated charcoal include nausea, vomiting and constipation, Drugs.com states. Other side effects include bowel obstruction, black-colored stool and a chalk-like taste have also been reported.
Activated charcoal or activated carbon absorbs harmful organic chemicals. One common use for activated charcoal is in water purification systems. About a Â½ inch of activated charcoal goes over the drainage material in a terrarium. Some people mix the charcoal with the drainage material, or opt not to include the activated charcoal at all. The purpose of the charcoal is to eliminate unpleasant odors as well as eliminate toxic chemicals harmful to plants. Another name for sphagnum moss is bog moss. When preparing the terrarium soil, a layer of sphagnum moss covers the activated charcoal layer.