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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