![]() Put simply, palm oil is difficult to produce sustainably, and its extraction is linked to deforestation in Africa, Asia, America, Indonesia, and Malaysia. The way it is cultivated (strictly through monocultures) leads to nocive environmental effects and consequently, harms animals in the process. ![]() Even though palm oil is derived from a plant, it’s (ironically) considered one of the most destructive ingredients in the world. However, some vegans (and others) might disagree. Palm OilĪccording to the Vegan Society, palm oil is a vegetable product that does not involve the (ab)use of animals and therefore is suitable for vegans. Other decolorizing agents such as granular carbon and ion-exchange are also used by a great number of sugar suppliers, but what happens (a lot of times) – at least by having contacted a few companies inquiring about the sugar in their products – is that many source sugar from different suppliers, which means there’s a mixed pool of suppliers, including ones that use bone char. The char is then returned to the cistern for the process to be repeated. The char is then washed clear of sugar and emptied from the cistern and sent to a drier and a kiln, where it’s regenerated by getting heated for a few minutes, as well as exposed to a limited quantity of air. The bone char is loaded into large vertical cylinders called cisterns, and the clarified syrup is passed downwards through one, and sometimes two of these cisterns until the bone char is exhausted. Bone char is a granular material prepared by grinding cattle bones and roasting them in a kiln. Oftentimes, a high degree of color removal is required, and one of the traditional methods to achieve that result is to use bone char. Its color is usually removed from cane sugar streams using carbon, or special resins. Cane sugar always passes through a decolorizing step, while beet sugar is rarely decolorized. Unfortunately, some sugar is not vegan due to one of its principal processes – decolorization. The reason they’re considered questionable is that they may be associated with animal cruelty. These ingredients are sugar (more specifically, cane sugar), palm oil, and artificial colors (yellow 5 & 6). These are the ingredients present in the original Captain Crunch recipe:Ĭorn Flour, Sugar, Oat Flour, Brown Sugar, Palm and/or Coconut Oil, Salt, Reduced Iron, Yellow 5 & 6, Niacinamide, BHT (to preserve freshness), Thiamin Mononitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Riboflavin, and Folic Acid.Īlthough there isn’t a single animal ingredient, which allegedly makes Captain Crunch a vegan product, there are three ingredients that are deemed questionable by more stringent vegans. I’ve analyzed the ingredient labels of every Captain Crunch variety, and there isn’t a significant difference between them, which is why I’m going to use the original Captain Crunch as an example. Captain Crunch: Ingredients Photo by openfoodfacts-contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0 per Open Food Facts. Captain Crunch (or Cap’n Crunch) is a corn and oat breakfast cereal manufactured by Quaker Oats Company, a subsidiary of PepsiCo since 2001.Īfter introducing the original Captain Crunch in 1963, Quaker Oats has since introduced many flavors and seasonal variations – available for a limited time – such as the ones below:įortunately, none of the variations above contain flagrant animal ingredients (i.e: milk or gelatin), but they contain ingredients that are deemed questionable by the vegan community, for logical reasons.
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