Re:Low nutritional quality in vegetarian meat substitutes
by abrambleninja on Friday December 09, 2022 @02:22PM
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> processed sugars aren’t vegan because the whitening stage uses bone meal
This is a good rule of thumb for North America, but not true all the time.
In the USA, organic sugar cannot be processed with bone char. Also, beet sugar is never processed with bone char, only cane sugar.
Also, not all non-organic cane sugar is processed with bone char. For example, in Canada, neither of the two main sugar companies (Rogers/Lantic and RedPath) use bone char for processing their sugar anymore (RedPath never did, and Rogers/Lantic stopped within the last few years).
Finally, all sugar in Australia and the EU (and probably other places) is processed without bone char.
This is a good rule of thumb for North America, but not true all the time.
In the USA, organic sugar cannot be processed with bone char. Also, beet sugar is never processed with bone char, only cane sugar.
Also, not all non-organic cane sugar is processed with bone char. For example, in Canada, neither of the two main sugar companies (Rogers/Lantic and RedPath) use bone char for processing their sugar anymore (RedPath never did, and Rogers/Lantic stopped within the last few years).
Finally, all sugar in Australia and the EU (and probably other places) is processed without bone char.