Bone chars?!
Bone chars?
How do I know which foods that contain sugar use sugar that has been processed through bone chars? Is there anyway that you can tell from reading the ingredients or the type of the product? Or is it absolutely necessary to call the company.
I called a company and they had no idea what I was talking about and couldn't find anything. What happens when the company says that they don't know? Just don't eat it right?
Answers:
You should have no problem finding sugars without bone char .. it is very easy ..almost every health food store or whole foods carry brands /types that are unrefined as dehydrated cane juice ,beet sugar which in many countries is interchanged with cane sugar ...and you can not tell the difference , barley malt and rice syrup ....you can also use maple syrup which is 60 percent as sweet as sugar but with a stronger flavor ..you should know that about a quarter of the sugar in the US is processed using bone char as a filter (about half of all sugar from sugar cane is processed with bone char, the rest with activated carbon). As bone char does not get into the sugar, sugar processed this way is considered parve/Kosher ..so kosher will not help in this case ... last many on line vegan site has vegan sugar or substitutable sweetener .. .. you will not have a problem finding it .. one last word bone char is also used to refine crude oil in the production of Vaseline. LOL..when will it end ..
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some sites to help ..http://store.foodfightgrocery.com/sweete... ... and http://209.85.165.104/search? aq=cache:TXtR7esyMZMJ:www.egan... .......... and http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:mlv... ......... vegan forever ..
If you're really that worried about ingredients, avoid processed crap.
"...some refined sugar is processed with animal bone char. The charcoal is used to remove color, impurities, and minerals from sugar. The charcoal is not 'in' the sugar, but is used in the process as as a filter. Thus by a process-based definition of vegan, refined sugar may not be considered vegan.
For those who would prefer not to use refined sugar, there are several alternatives: raw, turbinado, beet sugar, succanat, date sugar, fructose, barley malt, rice syrup, corn syrup, molasses, and maple syrup."
this last answer if very good
i personally LOVE turbinado!
i buy Sugar in the Raw....wonderful
When you're talking about seeing the word sugar or sucrose on a product label it's *impossible* to know!
Brown sugar is made from white sugar that had the molasses put back in so consider it off limits also.
If the package says beet sugar the odds are bone wasn't used. If the package says cane sugar bone most likely was used.
Be wary of glucose also! Almost all glucose now comes from either corn syrup processed with bone or from honeybees.
Despite rumors to the contrary there's only one plant based in Louisiana that makes pure cane sugar without using bone! They use a new patented process to whiten their sugar which is accidentally veggie friendly.
Under US food laws white sugar (sucrose) has a standard of identity. What that means is that by law the manufacturer is NOT allowed to differentiate their product from other standard identity products since it IS standard. This means that the one plant that makes boneless pure white cane sugar can't sell it as such and they also aren't allowed to tell you that theirs is different!