Vegan? Whats this with bone char in the sugar?

Question

Do you other vegans worry about it alot? Do you know which companies use sugar w/ the bone char in thier products?????

Does Peta exclude products w/ bone char sugar on thier accidentally vegan list??

Thanks for the help!!!!!!!

Answer 1

It's used for decolourising sugar. If you're really concerned, don't use refined sugar. Otherwise there's little to worry about. The bone char does not stay in the sugar post-processing. Char is just calcium phosphate and carbon... this is not much of an animal.

Personally, I think a lot of vegans are too paranoid (not insinuating you are). In the end there's little that's not vegan... even plants thrive on wastes of soil animalia.

Answer 2

I'm vegan, and I use organic sugar that's refined with vegetable ingredients.

I don't eat processed foods, so I can't remark on the sugar used in "accidentally vegan" foods.

Answer 3

I toured a sugar refinery once and they used charcoal, in year past before the mad cow scare the bones were used now it is triple filtered and refined so much the colour is natural, for non processed I use a natural cane extract crystal, the sugar cane juice is boiled down and allow dry to crystals and then broken up, no refining or dying or filtering even through charcoal just plain old sugar as it was suppose to be, I also use a palm sugar from both Thailand and India called "Jaggery", made from a sugar palm, a bit less sweet and has a creamy caramel taste, and is not filtered at all, just boiled and it solidifies into a mass, they pour it into cups or blocks, I have some here right now, it is available in Asian or Indian specialty stores and has fewer calories than cane products.