This is also mentioned in the sugar breakdown section for how sour patch kids is not vegan friendly. Also I want to emphasize that not all sugars are vegan friendly. Some store bought mochi donuts or recipes may also contain flour, milk, egg, sugar, baking powder and oil. But that doesn't bother us at all it's still delicious and have the chewy sticky texture that we love! Read further to find out the interesting history of mochi donuts.) And some recipes do not even use that and opt for using just tapioca starch. The most related or similar ingredient to mochi is the normal rice flour. (So technically mochi donuts do not actually contain mochi/ glutenous rice. Mochi donuts consists of sticky flour either tapioca flour or rice flour that gives it the chewy glutenous consistency. Of course mochi donuts have many ingredients it is not as sticky as the actual mochi. In that regards the mochi donuts and mochi have similar stickiness. Mochi does have a unique sticky consistency and smooth texture. Mochi by itself does not have any flavor just like pasta, rice, or flour is flavorless. However sweets that is made from mochi like mochi donuts, mochi ice cream, mochi filled with sweets may contain milk. However sweets that is made from mochi like mochi donuts, mochi ice cream, mochi filled with sweets may contain nuts. Mochi the ingredients is naturally nut free. In order to distinguish the mochi ingredient with mochi based sweets we will refer to mochi as the ingredients (glutenous rice) and mochi sweets, mochi ice cream, mochi donuts as the sweets that may contain mochi. These may not be vegan depending on what other ingredients are contained in these sweets. But in the US mochi products has become popular like mochi ice cream and mochi donuts. Mochi itself only signifies glutenous rice so it is vegan. Mochi is the Japanese word for glutenous rice. They are not call it mochi but glutenous rice is eaten in many areas in Asia like China, Korea, and Thailand. Making the glutinous rice become smooth and sticky takes many hands to pound and fold the rice for it to become mochi. Mochi signifies long life because similar to cheese, warm mochi stretches really long. Foods eaten during New Year all have auspicious meaning. In Japan making mochi is a New Year tradition where some communities will use a large wooden motor and pestle and pound out the glutinous rice to make mochi. Mochi is made from pounding glutinous rice (in English it may also be called sticky rice or sweet rice) into cake.
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