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[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 7 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

White cane sugar is processed through ~~bonemeal~~ bone char to make it white.

[–] affenlehrer@feddit.org 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

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?

[–] affenlehrer@feddit.org 5 points 10 hours ago

BTW that's only for sugar from cane sugar. In Europe we mostly use sugar beets and the processing is a little different

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 9 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Sorry, it is bone char that is used, not bone meal.

https://explainthat.org/is-white-sugar-vegan-the-truth-about-bone-char/

[–] Damage@feddit.it 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] drzoidberg@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Twinsies, almost.