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Why is a vegan diet better for diabetics? Sugar is vegan after all...

• giantg2 4y ago
  Surprisingly, white sugar is not.
  • istjohn 4y ago
    TIL > 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_sugar
    • gruez 4y ago
      It also says beet sugar is fine. Depending on where you live, beet sugar is the default "white sugar" that you get.
      • parineum 4y ago
        It also says some is processed that way.
        • gruez 4y 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.
          • parineum 4y 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.