Bone Sugar (Varakh..The Source Of Silver Foil In Sweets)

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> I agree with Deena Bandhu about the white sugar we offer.

 

"If your sole reason for not consuming refined sugar is because of the use

of bone char, then you should consider buying sugar which has not passed

through the char. Refined beet sugar, which never involves bone char, is

often labeled fine granular sugar. Cane sugar, which sometimes uses bone

char, is distinguished as cane sugar on the package..."

 

http://www.harvestcoop.com/pages/updates/times/2002/jan_feb02.html

 

Another site is:

 

http://www.vrg.org/journal/vj97mar/973sugar.htm

 

"This is what Domino Sugar Corp., Savannah Foods & Industries, Inc.,

California & Hawaiian Sugar Co., and Florida Crystal Co. said: The terms

"Granular Sugar" and "fine granular sugar" may apply to sugar derived from

either beets or sugar cane. The processing of sugar cane, but not sugar

beets, often involves decolorization by cow bone char. Secondly, there is no

legal requirement that the source of the sugar appear on the label. "Sugar"

is sufficient. The manufacturer must be contacted in order to determine the

source and the processing method. We can say, however, that beet sugar is

more popular in the midwest (where the beets are grown) than elsewhere in

the United States..."

 

" Many cane refineries use bone char. Domino, the largest sugar

manufacturer, uses bone char in the filtration process. The cane refineries

of Savannah Foods, the second largest sugar manufacturer, also use bone

char. California and Hawaiian Sugar employs bone char filters in addition to

granular carbon and ion exchange filters. All these companies use the bone

char in the refining process of brown sugar, powdered sugar (sugar mixed

with corn starch) and white sugar.

 

Some cane refineries do not use bone char. Refined Sugar, producers of Jack

Frost Sugar, claim to use a granular carbon instead of bone char for

economic reasons. Florida Crystal sugar is a cane sugar which has not passed

through the bone. Although Florida Crystals sugar has a straw color, the

impurities still have been removed..."