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Vegan gluttony
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Fairly certain Oreos are made with non vegan sugar.
I didn't know sugar could be non-vegan.
White cane sugar is processed through ~~bonemeal~~ bone 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.
Wrong, imperialists are non-vegan by default.
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.
Usually when people talk about sugar they mean beet sugar, your link is about cane sugar.... Who even needs to whiten cane sugar? It's always been yellowish
They whiten it to get... white sugar
In the Americas you basically only get cane sugar. The other way around in Europe, where it's basically all beet sugar
Interesting.
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
The sugar is harvested from exotic cat shit.
What makes the cat shit exotic?
I happen to have a bunch. Should I take it into Antiques Roadshow?
It was a joke for people that know things ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_luwak
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 ~~is~~ could be considered vegan/vegetarian in one region, ~~is not~~ does 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
That’s pretty much exactly what they said.
No they said the ingredients might change. And if there is suddenly an ingredient added or changed to one that is not vegan, the whole product is not vegan anymore.
But that does not mean the definition or vegan is changing?