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by istjohn 1453 days ago
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> White sugar (and some brown sugar) produced from sugar cane may be refined using bone char by a few sugar cane refiners.[2] For this reason white sugar from sugar cane may not be vegan. Beet sugar has never been processed with bone char and is vegan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_sugar
1 comments
gruez 1453 days ago
It also says beet sugar is fine. Depending on where you live, beet sugar is the default "white sugar" that you get.
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parineum 1453 days ago
It also says some is processed that way.
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gruez 1453 days ago
Where does it say that? The complete paragraph is

>White sugar (and some brown sugar) produced from sugar cane may be refined using bone char by a few sugar cane refiners.[2] For this reason white sugar from sugar cane may not be vegan. Beet sugar has never been processed with bone char and is vegan.[3]

which pretty definitively say that it's only cane sugar that might be processed that way, and beet sugar is "never" processed that way.

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parineum 1452 days ago
> sugar cane may be refined

Am I wrong to read that to say that _some_ white sugar is vegan?

EDIT: Oh, I see the confusion. I didn't mean any beet sugar was processed that way. I only meant to dispute the claim further up that white sugar is not vegan.

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