In Europe we use mostly sugar beets as base for sugar production. As far as I’m aware it’s processing is vegan. So it depends where they produce it and source their ingredients.
That doesn’t make sense. Sugar is cooked to separate the molasses from the sucrose and the resulting clear sugar is what appears white. Bone meal would cause weird crystals nucleation around the powdered bone and sugar crystals would look uneven, like a chalky Sugar In The Raw large grain.
I would love to learn more about how white sugar keeps a uniform shape after bone meal processing. Food science is fascinating. Have a link?
While I don’t know about Oreos, ingredients also vary by region. A number of products have different ingredient lists depending on if you buy them in Canada or the US. So something that iscould be considered vegan/vegetarian in one region, is notdoes not meet the requirements in the other region.
To clarify, ingredients are different on each side of the border. So the same product has vegan ingredients on one side, and non-vegan ingredients on the other
Fairly certain Oreos are made with non vegan sugar.
I didn’t know sugar could be non-vegan.
White cane sugar is processed through
bonemealbone char to make it white.In Europe we use mostly sugar beets as base for sugar production. As far as I’m aware it’s processing is vegan. So it depends where they produce it and source their ingredients.
That doesn’t make sense. Sugar is cooked to separate the molasses from the sucrose and the resulting clear sugar is what appears white. Bone meal would cause weird crystals nucleation around the powdered bone and sugar crystals would look uneven, like a chalky Sugar In The Raw large grain.
I would love to learn more about how white sugar keeps a uniform shape after bone meal processing. Food science is fascinating. Have a link?
Sorry, it is bone char that is used, not bone meal.
https://explainthat.org/is-white-sugar-vegan-the-truth-about-bone-char/
Twinsies, almost.
Super cool. Didn’t realize that sugar was basically cane sugar for AMPAC and beet sugar for Europe. Thanks!
BTW that’s only for sugar from cane sugar. In Europe we mostly use sugar beets and the processing is a little different
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sugar-vegan-bone-char-yikes_n_6391496
While I don’t know about Oreos, ingredients also vary by region. A number of products have different ingredient lists depending on if you buy them in Canada or the US. So something that
iscould be considered vegan/vegetarian in one region,is notdoes not meet the requirements in the other region.I don’t think the definition of “vegan” changes across borders
Edit: proof that a vegan diet causes the sense of humor to atrophy
To clarify, ingredients are different on each side of the border. So the same product has vegan ingredients on one side, and non-vegan ingredients on the other
I also edited my original comment to be clearer
And that is not what the otter said