Is "Sugar in the RAW" or "Raw Sugar" vegetarian?

Answer 1

It's vegan so it's also automatically vegetarian.

The only difference between white sugar and raw sugar is that the final filtration/purification step is omitted for the raw sugar.

In most cases the final filtration is done through charcoal from burned animal bones. Vegheads want *nothing* to do with anything that's touched bones (burned or otherwise).

You can also find it labeled as turbinado sugar and under the brand sucanat.

Watch out for brown sugar! It's normally made from fulled refined white sugar that had molasses put back in to make it brown (sounds backwards but that's how they do it).

Answer 2

If you get unprocessed, unfiltered, sun-dried, cane sugar, or palm sugar etc., yes. Most countries still use the simple sun-dry method because labour is cheap and you can find it at most Indian or other South East Asian stores.

But, you have to be careful with wording when it comes to packaged products. The word "raw" is similar to the word "natural" in that it is unregulated and open to differences of opinion. A huge sugar producer here in Canada called Rogers has a product called Raw Sugar, but it is obviously processed and likely cooked to make it into those pretty little cubes... I would say that cooking makes it 'cooked' not 'raw', see, raw can also mean something like "naked" or "without anything added", but there are no regulations on the word as I said, so it's meaningless. Most sugar in N. America (where sugarcane does not grow) is made from sugar-beets. I contacted Rogers two years ago to ask specifically how their different sugars are made and how specific ones such as their "raw" brand is made, and I had some great conversations with an employee there who explained the whole process and sent me diagrams etc. too... the process is so highly complicated that I really could not follow exactly what I was told, even with diagrams. Basically, sugar is processed in the same fashion as oil is processed: raw product goes in, and 35 different products come out having gone through 150 different processes. They also said that they also import sugar cane for Western Canada sugar, and use sugar beets in Eastern Canada.

Many processed foods are filtered through charcoal made from animal bones and who knows what. To make salt white (perhaps sugar too), animal blood is also used in the process. I believe I read about that in the book Eco Cuisine, or one of the authors other books. He also mentioned that in the process of making manufactured honey sugar is added, and in maple syrup defoaming agents are added in the form of oils or lard. None of these things (since they are steps in the process) need to be listed on the ingredients. Basically, if an ingredient is added because it is part of the process, it doesn't need to be listed. If the amount is under a certain amount, it doesn't need to be listed. The rules go on and on to basically allow almost anything to be used in making of food products as long as it doesn't immediately kill you. It can kill you very slowly over decades, but not over a shorter span of time (hence the existence of all these additives, colours, and all the stuff you do not know about). It's all about money, they don't give a crap about you or anyone.

Answer 3

Sugar in the raw hasn't been stripped of it's covering (like white sugar). It's not processed. Can't say if it's vegetarian - it's just in a more natural state.

Answer 4

Sugar in the raw or raw sugar is a unrefined sugar. Sugar is a plant by-product.

Answer 5

Vegetarians dont eat meat and sugar, of any kind, isn't meat so yes raw sugar would be vegetarian.

Answer 6

Yes it is.
I love sugar in the raw :)

Answer 7

Sugar in the raw is mixed with cows brain.

Answer 8

It can't be vegetarian any more than a carrot can be vegetarian. Only people and animals can be vegetarian. Of course, people can always change their minds from day to day.

Answer 9

yes

Answer 10

yes