Would you know it, but there is animal byproducts in some sugars. The vegetarian, a strict vegan will not eat sugar. The sugar is sometimes colored white with bone char from of all things cows. So if you are vegetarian that does not want to cause any suffering to animals by you eating sugar then you do have some options.

Beet sugar is your first option, this sugar is never made white by cow bone char. In this way you will be able to completely avoid eating the bone char. The big problem is being able to know what food has the beet sugar. If you read the food label and if it says fructose or dextrose the sugar is from a plant like beets or corn but if it says sucrose it could very well have cow bone char in it.

Some sugar companies state their use on bone char, picking those brands only would be a second choice. These companies are known not to use bone char in their sugar, American Crystal Sugar Company, Sugar in the Raw, Irish Sugar Ltd., Imperial Sugar Company and Florida Crystals. Listen up, you should always contact these companies time from time to see if they have changed the way they make sugar. Brands that are known for using bone char in their sugar is C&H Sugar company, Savannah Foods and Domino.

In the United States there is two types of sugars, cain and beet. The cain sugar is whitened with bone char but on the other hand beet is not whitened with bone char. It will be an challenge to find out whats in all the foods we eat, but if its important to you to be a vegetarian, then its a challenge you can overcome. In lots of cases it will be easy to just read the nutritional label, most of your answers are in there.