Are Oreos Vegan?
Answer: it depends on your stance on refined sugar.
Backstory: a few years ago, Kraft, the maker of Oreo Cookie sandwiches bought out Hydrox Cookies and reformulated their Oreo cookies. They removed all dairy elements, and with a serious glance, the ingredient list looked vegan (unlike Soft Batch Cookies that switched their packaging to include “dairy flavors,” sigh). Vegans of the world rejoiced and began dipping seriously into their collective soy/rice/almond/hemp/… milk glasses. But some vegans questioned the sourcing of the Kraft sugars.
This it the message directly from Kraft:
Kraft has several sugar suppliers. Some of our suppliers DO use the animal-derived natural charcoal (also known as “bone char”) in their cane sugar refining process and some suppliers DO NOT use this process.
There you have it. The ingredients are all vegan, but the processing of their sugars can involve bone char.
If you're not a Vegan who strictly is against anything that touches an animal part, then you're probably okay.
I'm not eating Vegan to eliminate animal usage. I'm only doing it to cut out meat and dairy mostly. So bring on the Oreos!
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