Vegan Sugar

I didn't realize sugar was not vegan until I did a little bit of research. Bone char- which is made of cow bones- is used to whiten the sugar which makes it a non-vegan friendly product.

There are certain brands of sugar that do NOT use bone char in their processing; the list can be found here: http://www.vegfamily.com/articles/sugar.htm/

Raw and turbinado sugar are vegan as well.

But leave it to Whole Foods to make my life that much easier by having Vegan Sugar as one of their products! Another plus is that it is Fair Trade Certified! I love it. Learn more about the importance of purchasing Fair Trade products here: http://www.transfairusa.org/

I used it to bake my first vegan cake- a carrot cake (which I will be posting now :)