Smida tal-għadam fil-produzzjoni taz-zokkor

When enjoying sugar, we often forget to ask by what process this magical substance appears in our cakes, in a cup or glass. As a rule, sugar is not associated with cruelty. Unfortunately, since 1812, sugar has been literally mixed with cruelty every day. At first glance, sugar seems to be a purely vegetable product; after all, it comes from a plant. Refined sugar – the kind used in coffee, shortcrust pastry, and cake ingredients – is made from either sugar cane or beets. These two varieties of sugar contain an almost identical set of nutrients, have the same taste. However, their purification processes are different. What does the process of refining sugar look like? To make table sugar from sugar cane, the cane stalks are crushed to separate the juice from the pulp. The juice is processed and heated; crystallization takes place, and then the crystalline mass is filtered and bleached with bone char, as a result of which we get virgin white sugar. Moreover, as a filter, bone charcoal, mainly pelvic bones of calves and cows are used. Beef bones are crushed and incinerated at a temperature of 400 to 500 degrees Celsius. In the production of cane sugar, crushed bone powder is used as a filter, which absorbs coloring impurities and dirt. In every large filter tank used in industrial production, up to seventy thousand feet of bone char can easily be found. This amount of filter material is obtained from the skeletons of approximately 78 cows. Sugar companies purchase large amounts of bone char for several reasons; in the first place, there are gigantic scales in which they operate. Giant commercial filter columns can be 10 to 40 feet tall and 5 to 20 feet wide. Yet each device that can filter 30 gallons of sugar per minute five days a week holds 5 pounds of coal. If one cow is used to produce nine pounds of coal, and approximately 70 pounds are needed to fill a filter column, then a simple math shows that it takes the bones of almost 7800 cows to produce a serving of bone char for just one commercial filter. Many factories use several large filter columns to purify sugar. Pure white sugar is not the only sweetener that is refined as described above. Even brown sugar is run through bone charcoal for the purpose of cleansing. Powdered sugar is a combination of refined sugar and starch. When we consume refined sugar, we do not literally accept animal food, but we pay money to bone charcoal producers. In fact, sugar itself does not contain particles of bone charcoal, but comes into contact with them. It is curious that refined sugar is recognized as a kosher product – precisely for the reason that it does not contain bones. Bone charcoal allows you to purify sugar, but does not become part of it. However, it should be remembered that the sale of slaughter by-products, including bones, blood and other body parts such as tendons (as in gelatin), allows animal slaughterers to make money from their waste and remain profitable.

Fil-biċċa l-kbira, l-għadam tal-baqra għar-raffinar taz-zokkor ġej mill-Afganistan, l-Indja, l-Arġentina, il-Pakistan. Il-fabbriki jipproċessawhom f'kar tal-għadam u mbagħad ibigħuhom lill-Istati Uniti u pajjiżi oħra. Ħafna pajjiżi Ewropej, kif ukoll l-Awstralja u New Zealand, ipprojbixxew l-użu tal-għadam char biex jirfina z-zokkor. Madankollu, meta tixtri prodotti f’xi wieħed minn dawn il-pajjiżi, wieħed ma jistax ikun ċert li z-zokkor li kien fihom kien prodott lokalment. Mhux iz-zokkor kollu miksub mill-kannamieli huwa raffinat bil-faħam tal-għadam. Reverse osmosis, skambju joniku, jew faħam sintetiku jistgħu jintużaw ukoll minflok faħam tal-għadam. Sfortunatament, dawn il-metodi għadhom jiswew aktar. Filtrazzjoni tal-faħam tal-għadam ma tintużax fil-produzzjoni taz-zokkor tal-pitravi minħabba li dan iz-zokkor raffinat ma jeħtieġx dekolorizzazzjoni daqs iz-zokkor tal-kannamieli. Il-meraq tal-pitravi jiġi estratt permezz ta 'apparat ta' diffużjoni u mħallat ma 'addittivi, li jirriżulta fi kristallizzazzjoni. Il-veġetarjani jistgħu jikkonkludu li hemm soluzzjoni sempliċi għall-problema - uża biss zokkor tal-pitravi, iżda dan it-tip ta 'zokkor għandu togħma differenti minn zokkor tal-kannamieli, li jeħtieġ bidliet fir-riċetti u jagħmel il-proċess tat-tisjir aktar diffiċli. Hemm xi zokkor tal-kannamieli ċċertifikati li ma jużawx charbon tal-għadam fil-proċess tal-manifattura, kif ukoll ħlewwiet li mhumiex derivati ​​mill-kannamieli jew raffinati bil-kannamieli tal-għadam. Pereżempju: Xylitol (Zokkor tal-Betula) Meraq tal-Agave Stevia Ġulepp tal-Aġġru Zokkor tal-Gewż tal-Palm tal-Meraq tal-Frott Konċentrati Zokkor tad-Data

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