Editing Sucrose (section)

===Religious concerns===
The sugar refining industry often uses bone char ([[calcinated]] animal bones) for decolorizing.<ref>[https://www.vegfamily.com/articles/sugar.htm The Great Sugar Debate: Is it Vegan?] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090919012241/https://www.vegfamily.com/articles/sugar.htm |date=2009-09-19 }}. Vegfamily.com. Retrieved on 2011-11-18.</ref><ref name="VegetarianJournal">{{cite journal
 |last        = Yacoubou, MS
 |first       = Jeanne
 |title       = Is Your Sugar Vegan? An Update on Sugar Processing Practices
 |journal     = Vegetarian Journal
 |volume      = 26
 |issue       = 4
 |pages       = 16–20
 |publisher   = The Vegetarian Resource Group
 |location    = Baltimore, MD
 |year        = 2007
 |url         = https://www.vrg.org/journal/vj2007issue4/vj2007issue4.pdf
 |access-date  = 2007-04-04
 |url-status     = live
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20080409003341/https://www.vrg.org/journal/vj2007issue4/vj2007issue4.pdf
 |archive-date = 2008-04-09
}}</ref> About 25% of sugar produced in the U.S. is processed using bone char as a filter, the remainder being processed with [[activated carbon]]. As bone char does not seem to remain in finished sugar, Jewish religious leaders consider sugar filtered through it to be [[pareve]], meaning that it is neither meat nor dairy and may be used with either type of food. However, the bone char must source to a kosher animal (e.g. cow, sheep) for the sugar to be [[kosher]].<ref name="VegetarianJournal"/>