iirc, some sugar is filtered through bone char to make it more sparkly white
not everywhere though, sugar made in the uk for example doesn't do this as we use beet to make sugar, not cane
Stuff like this is so annoying. It's all sugar to me. There were dumb scares about brown sugar when microscopes were discovered and people put out pics that were supposedly all the microbes on the dirty sugar. Similar amounts can be found in regular sugar iirc too it's extra silly
who cares. also I derail my own conversations to talk about food on purpose. I've seen a lot of non-bleached looking sugar being used in chinese cooking videos on youtube, anecdotally.
The buddhist standard is a subcategory of this classification. They're just being nice to buddhists :3
What draws you to this inference about bone char in sugar, I'm not familiar with this practice. Have I been getting bones in my sugar?!
iirc, some sugar is filtered through bone char to make it more sparkly white
not everywhere though, sugar made in the uk for example doesn't do this as we use beet to make sugar, not cane
Can this be done with normal charcoal?
sadly my chemistry education ended at gcse level, so i have no idea
Stuff like this is so annoying. It's all sugar to me. There were dumb scares about brown sugar when microscopes were discovered and people put out pics that were supposedly all the microbes on the dirty sugar. Similar amounts can be found in regular sugar iirc too it's extra silly
yeah, i agree
why does it even need to be sparkly white in the first place?
if it has something to do with shelf life i'd understand but if it's just psychological that annoys me, most sugar ends up invisible
anyways none of this answers the original question of what in the rules makes them worried bone char is gonna considered vegan by China.
oh shit, good point, sorry for derailing
who cares. also I derail my own conversations to talk about food on purpose. I've seen a lot of non-bleached looking sugar being used in chinese cooking videos on youtube, anecdotally.