Sugar is Vegan as it contains no animal products.
When something is vegan it will contain no animal products or insect products etc.
Raw sugar is typically suitable for vegans.
Even though sugarcane is usually used in raw sugar, filtration is skipped in manufacturing to make it “raw”, so no bone char is involved in the process.
Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food.
Simple sugars, also called monosaccharides, include glucose, fructose, and galactose.
Compound sugars, also called disaccharides or double sugars, are molecules made of two monosaccharides joined by a glycosidic bond.
When you eat excess sugar, the extra insulin in your bloodstream can affect your arteries all over your body.
It causes their walls to get inflamed, grow thicker than normal and more stiff, this stresses your heart and damages it over time.
This can lead to heart disease, like heart failure, heart attacks, and strokes.
Adults should have no more than 30g of free sugars a day, (roughly equivalent to 7 sugar cubes).
Children aged 7 to 10 should have no more than 24g of free sugars a day (6 sugar cubes).
Children aged 4 to 6 should have no more than 19g of free sugars a day (5 sugar cubes).