![]() Sadly, these tests include experiments on rodents, but may also include guinea pigs, rabbits, and sometimes even dogs or puppies. The issue with artificial flavors and colors does not lie in the origin of the ingredient, but what happens to it before it’s introduced into a product.įurthermore, any ingredient that is fully or partially synthetic must be regulated, and so it must be tested (over time) to ensure it’s safe for consumption. Glycerin can be extracted in two ways - vegetable oils derived from plants and the fat naturally present in animals.Īlthough, if it comforts you, vegetable-based glycerol is the one that is widely used. Due to its hygroscopic nature (being able to absorb water), it is an important ingredient in a variety of products because it’s able to prevent moistness.Īs a result, it is used for different purposes such as making a base for lotions, fruit storage, making cakes and obviously candies like the Sour Punch Straws. Glycerin is a viscous, odorless liquid that gets dissolved in water and is low in toxic levels. For instance, Oreos and Ghirardelli are companies that rely upon different suppliers, so you can’t really trace it back to the product.īecause the use of bone char is quite common in the United States and Sour Punch is an American company- it’s possible Sour Punch products may have sugar filtered with bone char. What I’ve seen, in certain cases, is that B2C companies (business to consumer), source sugar from different suppliers, so they get different types of sugar. Other companies, by sourcing only sugar from beets, don’t require a decolorizer like bone char. In fact, some companies already use a solution called activated charcoal which achieves a similar (if not equal) result. This, however, may vary from sugar company to sugar company. On the other hand, to obtain its pure white color, sugar from cane is filtered and bleached using a property called bone char.īone char is essentially the result of heating the bones of cattle at high temperatures and reducing them to a black, charcoal-like powder. However, they’re both processed differently, using different methods and ingredients.įor example, sugar from beets is filtered using a diffuser and mixed with additives to achieve crystallization. Sugar is typically extracted from two sources: sugar canes and sugar beets.īoth have a similar taste, and both happened to be used in equal amounts in the United States. Unfortunately, some ingredients are not explicit about their origin, nor are they clear in terms of how they’re handled after being extracted. While the Sour Punch Straws don’t have any flagrant animal ingredients, ingredients such as sugar, glycerine, artificial flavors, and colors are seen as questionable in the vegan community. However, strict vegans may have a different opinion. ![]() ![]() Artificial Color Added (Including Blue 1, Blue 1 Lake, Yellow 5 (Tartrazine), Yellow 5 Lake).įor less restrictive vegans, the Sour Punch Straws are vegan.In fact, take a look at the ingredient list taken from Amazon: In other words, there are no animal ingredients in the recipe. Lastly, the candy is coated with its signature sweet and sour blend before getting cut to length and packaged for delivery. Once it gets the right moisture, the candy goes onto an inclined belt and rides through a cooling tunnel that chills out the batch to 70 degrees. Next, the batch is heated up to 170 degrees and pumped into a cooker to expel the excess moisture. The ingredients are stirred to get the right consistency, and then the color and flavor are added. Sour Punch Candies (including the Straws) start out similarly to many other sour candies- a mix of sugar, flour, corn syrup and water in a giant kettle. 3.1 Share this post: How Are Sour Punch Straws Made? Photo by kiliweb, CC BY-SA 3.0 per Open Food Facts.
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