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Sugar is filtered through charred cow bones
Unless your sugar is labelled as raw or organic, it was probably refined using bone char. Bones from cattle that have died naturally, mainly in third-world countries, are sun-dried and incinerated to produce a granular substance. The bone char is an efficient filter for removing colorants from cane sugar, leaving it sparkling white.
Ironically, even brown sugar has gone through the bone char process, since it’s made by adding molasses to refined sugar.
