Are animal ingredients included in white sugar?!
Answers:
Yes -- all white sugar starts out brown, then is bleached by siphoning it thru animal bone charcoal. Takes out the color and makes it white.
That's why the strict vegetarians and the vegans won't touch it -- animal products used in its production.
Some cane sugar uses charcoal made from animal bones in the refining process (something like 50% I believe). It's not "included" in the sugar (think of it like a coffee filter, you don't get paper in your coffee), but it's used so some vegans avoid it.
Beet sugar isn't refined in the same way and so is 100% vegan.
There definately are NO animal parts in sugar what-so-ever. Only natural ingredients such as, cane or beet, But bone charcoal and lime are used for clarifying.
Raw sugar is pure.
Hope this helps.
My husband worked in the Sugar Industry for 14 years in the UK, Durban, Mozambique, Transvaal, UK and Zululand
Organic sugars are vegan, they are not filtered through bone char.
Try products that list evaporated cane sugar.
I am a strict vegetarian, not quite vegan, but I avoid refined sugars that are not vegan.
Check out the links below for more info and a list of companies that use bone char to process their sugar.
http://www.vegan.org/FAQs/index.html
http://www.vegfamily.com/articles/sugar.…
Lexa sounds right, but I'm not sure. I use Sugar in the Raw, personally.
no. sugar cane or beets.
No, it's a plant
no
Most of the time pig intestines are used, but in recent years they have started using dogs and cats because it is more cost effective that way.
Hope this helps.
