For those interested I just got a few phone calls with some interesting information I had called about.
1. Jack Frost Sugar no longer uses bone char, opting instead for a non animal sourced charcoal.
2. Domino Sugar informs me that the plants in New Orleans(5) and Baltimore(4) DO use bone char, which he also told me, is now being called natural charcoal! The plants in Brooklyn(2) and Yonkers(1) DO NOT use bone char.
The way to tell which plant the sugar comes from is by the number of the processing plant on the package. If the number starts with the number I have listed after each plant, that is where it comes from.
I had a hard time trying to explain to the Man who called me back, why the use of bone char was unacceptible to me.
He kept launching into this long assurance that no part of the bone char remains in the finished product. I think I finally got him to understand that the issue is using bone char at all, not if it was present in the sugar!
3. Beet Sugar never uses bone char as that type of refining is not necessary. Florida Crystals is one that comes from sugar beets. I am looking for others.
don't know if this is of interest to anyone but thought i would put it out there.
1. Jack Frost Sugar no longer uses bone char, opting instead for a non animal sourced charcoal.
2. Domino Sugar informs me that the plants in New Orleans(5) and Baltimore(4) DO use bone char, which he also told me, is now being called natural charcoal! The plants in Brooklyn(2) and Yonkers(1) DO NOT use bone char.
The way to tell which plant the sugar comes from is by the number of the processing plant on the package. If the number starts with the number I have listed after each plant, that is where it comes from.
I had a hard time trying to explain to the Man who called me back, why the use of bone char was unacceptible to me.
He kept launching into this long assurance that no part of the bone char remains in the finished product. I think I finally got him to understand that the issue is using bone char at all, not if it was present in the sugar!
3. Beet Sugar never uses bone char as that type of refining is not necessary. Florida Crystals is one that comes from sugar beets. I am looking for others.
don't know if this is of interest to anyone but thought i would put it out there.