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Sugar is declared "vegan" by the analyser, but not all sugar is vegan. #3340

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What

  • https://www.peta.org/living/food/is-sugar-vegan/ says:
  • Cane sugar may have been refined by filtering through bone char and thus not be vegan.
  • Brown sugar is made from refined sugar.
  • "Beet and coconut sugar are never processed with bone char."
  • Some labels and companies mean that a sugar is not processed with bone char.

Ingredient analysis considers en:sugar and (some of) its kinds vegan: yes.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

  1. Go to any product in https://world.openfoodfacts.org/ingredient/sugar
  2. Click on Details of the analysis of the ingredients »
  3. Search for en:sugar.
  4. See that the ingredient is declared en:sugar - vegan: yes - vegetarian: yes.

Expected behavior

  • sugar: `vegan:en:maybe
  • coconut sugar: vegan:en:yes?
  • beet sugar: same as sugar? (see aleene's comment)

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  • Tens or hundreds of thousands.

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