they sometimes process it through animal bone...thats what i heard, anyway. I class myself as vegan and eat sugar though. As far as i KNOW im not CONSUMING any animal products at all when eating sugar...i hope im right...
haha. im a vegetarian and dont eat gelatin, and if sugar is really processed with it, i would stop comsuming it. but i tihnk sugar in the raw isnt processed with it
I found a brand that says on the package that it is not processed with any animal products. I don't recall the brand but it is fairly common at most grocery and big box stores.
Bone char, also known as bone black or animal charcoal, is a granular black material produced by calcinating animal bones: the bones are heated to high temperatures in the absence of air to drive off volatile substances. It consists mainly of calcium phosphate and a small amount of carbon. Bone char has a very high surface area and a high absorptive capacity for lead, mercury, and arsenic. Uses -Bone char is used to remove fluoride from water and to filter aquarium water. -It is often used in the sugar refining industry for decolorizing (a process patented by Louis Constant in 1812). This leads to worries from vegans and vegetarians, since 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. Vegans are of varying opinions over whether such sugar can be considered truly vegan. -It is used to refine crude oil in the production of Vaseline. -Bone char is also used as a black pigment. It is sometimes used for artistic painting because it is the deepest available black, though charcoal black is often satisfactory and is more often used. Ivory black is an artists' pigment formerly made by grinding charred ivory in oil. Today it is considered a synonym for bone char. Ivory is no longer used because of the expense, and because animals that are natural sources of ivory are subject to international control as endangered species.
no sugar then? walker in the woods, dcan you find out the name of that brand? and does this mean pretzels that have sugar in them have the chance of having this processed animals added sugar in them?
actuially its grinded up animal bone and tissure, but one of my friends said they now have new gelatin that doesnt have that in it. i dont know if its true or how to tell if its the new kind of gelatin
I've heard of the sugar thing too and I actually forgot about it.. I'm pretty sure raw and turbinado sugar goes through all the same processes as bleached sugar other than the bleaching. It'd be nice if that didn't have animal stuff in it though.. I shall find out... And yeah gelatin is bone marrow.. I stopped eating chewy candy be proud
I will check the sugar when I get home. In the meantime here are some brands that are suppose to be ok according to this website, http://www.theveggietable.com/articles/sugar.html Sugar made without bone char Country Cane Florida Crystals Jack Frost Pillsbury Rapunzel (Rapadura) Rouse's Markets Southern Bell Supreme Wholesome Sweeteners beet sugar most organic sugars unrefined sugar Personally I try not to use sugar if I can help it. Instead I usuaully use blackstrap molasses or maple syrup.
