What is animal char used in many sugars

Question

What is animal char used in many sugars

Answer 1

Bone Char.

Animal bone ash. Used in bone china and often to make sugar white. Serves as the charcoal used in aquarium filters.

Alternatives: synthetic tribasic calcium phosphate.

Answer 2

It is not used in the UK at all.

Answer 3

Bones from the slaughterhouse animals are used. Examp: Pigs, cows...the bones are crushed and then put into the traditional refined white sugar that we see on the grocery store shelves. That is what makes it look white and powdery. Trace amounts of animal blood are in it too and that's why many vegans don't use regular white sugar. Good alternatives are pure crystalline fructose, honey, molasses, agave, and fruit juice sweetened items. Eventually you should try to wean yourself of all sugars and consume only sugars from the fruit that you eat.

Answer 4

Its not used in the majority of sugars anymore.

I have it in writing from Tate and Lyle that they stopped a few years ago.

Most refineries now use a mechanical centrifuge.

Many veggies and vegans think they are safer with raw, unrefined sugars. Unfortunately this is not the case. Tate and Lyre told me that the only animal ingredients they ever use now are occasional colourings made from a bovine source - they use it to darken brown or raw sugars.

Funny that, people use raw sugars thinking they are safest but actually they are the worst !

Answer 5

to make it white