Re: Is white sugar treif?



<kepipesiom@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> yacovachi@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > Henry Goodman wrote:
> > > A paragraph in a recent New Scientist suggests there may be a
kashrut
> > > problem in the manufacture of white sugar.
> > >
> > > http://www.newscientist.com/backpage.ns?id=mg18925352.300
> > >
> > > The relevant paragraph is extracted below
> > >
> > > By the way, some companies use "bone char", which is made from
animal
> > > bones, in the filters used to remove the colour from sugar. Such
sugar
> > > is therefore unsuitable for vegetarians and possibly also
forbidden by
> > > certain religious diets such as kosher.
> > >
> >
> > Can you taste it? It is bedi'abhad, and min beshe'eno mino, thus
> > benoten ta'am.
> >
> > Unless you *can* taste it -- no possible problem.
> >
> We do not even have to go to the nothein ta'am test. Bone char is
> active charcoal made by burning bones to destruction leaving nearly
> pure carbon in the form of fine charcoal. As I was taught very many
> years ago, such thoroughly combusted substances are never treif,
> regardless of their origin. If this is correct, then even were the
> sugar to have some taste of charcoal in it, it would still be
kosher.
>
> Giorgies
> who has a sweet tooth and eats much sugar which he oughtn't.

I thought something like that might be the case; thank you for saying
so. The person raising the point was a vegetarian chef so it seems
that vegetarians have chumras that we do not have.

--
Henry Goodman
henry dot goodman at virgin dot net



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