Editing Kashrut (section)

===Pareve foods===
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A pareve food is one which is neither meat nor dairy. Fish fall into this category, as well as any food that is not animal-derived. [[egg (food)|Egg]]s are also considered pareve despite being an animal product.<ref>{{cite web|title=Meat, Dairy and Pareve|url=http://www.ok.org/Content.asp?ID=63|publisher=[[OK Kosher Certification]]|access-date=March 15, 2013}}</ref>

Some processes convert a meat- or dairy-derived product into a pareve one. For example, [[rennet]] is sometimes made from stomach linings, yet is acceptable for making kosher cheese.<ref>"The rennet must be kosher, either microbial or from special productions of animal rennet using kosher calf stomachs." [http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/2828/ Oukosher.org] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306151416/http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/2828/ |date=2012-03-06 }}, Retrieved August 10, 2005.</ref> Gelatins derived from kosher animal sources (which were ritually slaughtered) are also pareve.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kosher Gelatin:How a Product from Beef Can be Used in Dairy Delicacies|url=https://oukosher.org/blog/industrial-kosher/the-fascinating-story-of-kosher-gelatin-or-how-a-product-from-beef-can-be-used-in-dairy-delicacies|publisher=[[OU Kosher]]|access-date=February 7, 2019|date=2009-07-16}}</ref> Other gelatin-like products from non-animal sources such as [[agar agar]] and [[carrageenan]] are pareve by nature. Fish gelatin, like all kosher fish products, is pareve.

Jewish law generally requires that bread be kept pareve (i.e., not kneaded with meat or dairy products nor made on meat or dairy equipment).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kashrut.com/articles/bread/|title=Bread|website=www.kashrut.com}}</ref>

{{transliteration|he|Kashrut}} has procedures by which equipment can be cleaned of its previous non-kosher or meat/dairy use, but those may be inadequate for vegetarians, those with allergies, or adherents to other religious laws.

For example, dairy manufacturing equipment can be cleaned well enough that the rabbis grant pareve status to products manufactured with it but someone with a strong allergic sensitivity to dairy products might still react to the dairy residue. This is why some products that are legitimately pareve carry "milk" warnings.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kosher Consumer Misconsumptions|url=http://www.star-k.org/kashrus/kk-KosherConsumerMisconsumptions.htm|publisher=[[Star-K]]|access-date=March 15, 2013}}</ref>