HALAL & HARAM DIRECTORY
O believers ! Eat of the
good things that We have
provided you with and give
thanks to Allah.
(2:
172)
Though thorough research has
gone into producing this guideline, it is by no means complete and only covers
the common products as it is very difficult to obtain exactly the listing of
halal and haram ingredients present in all products. Also, companies are constantly changing
their product ingredients and Muslims should always be aware that what is
originally certified halal might in the future be haram and vice versa. Due to aggressive campaigning by The
Vegetarian Society, UK, most products now display their symbol ‘Suitable For
Vegetarians’ which means that there is NO animal content in that particular
product, making it halal. However,
a product can still contain alcohol, making it haram. Please check.
Points to
note:
·
Medicine containing alcohol
is not permissible unless on authority of a doctor with no alternative medicine
available.
· If alcohol undergoes
significant chemical changes causing it to lose its original properties via
chemical processes, then its usage and consumption is permissible, as in the
case where wine has turned into vinegar.
Hence, it is also why all soap (without pig-derived ingredients) are
permissible to use for Muslims.
· Gelatine is a thickener
derived from skins, tendons, ligaments, bones to produce a gelling agent. Some remnant of the original product
still remains in the final packaged product, making it impure and improper for
use despite the great chemical changes it underwent.
·
Processed foods contain food
additives, regulated by the alphabet ‘E’, such as emulsifiers, raising agents,
preservatives, colouring and gelling agents. At time of compilation, all other ‘E’
number additives are halal except for these:
|
‘E’
Number |
Description |
|
E120 |
Cochineal - derived
from the cochineal beetle |
|
E160a |
Alpha-, Beta-, Gamma-
Carotene – haram if gelatine is added to it |
|
E471 |
Mono and Di-Glycerides
of fatty acids – when Glycerol is used, one has to find out the source
whether animal or synthetic |
|
E472
(a-e) |
Lactic acid esters of
Mono- and D-Glycerides of fatty acids, prepared from esters of
Glycerol |
|
E473 |
Sucrose esters of
fatty acids prepared from Glycerol and Sucrose |
|
E474 |
Sycroglycerides
prepared by reaction of Sucrose on natural Triglycerides, derived from
palm oil, lard, etc |
|
E475 |
Polyglycerol esters of
fatty acids, prepared in the labrotary |
|
E476 |
Polyglycerol esters of
polycondensed fatty acids of castor oil, prepared from castor oil and
Glycerol esters |
|
E477 |
Propylene Glycol of
fatty acids |
|
E478 |
Prepared from esters
of glycerol and lactic acid |
|
E570 |
Stearic Acid,
naturally occurring fatty acid found in animal fats and vegetable oils,
used as anticaking agent |
|
E572 |
Prepared synthetically
from commercial stearic acid |
|
E631 |
Prepared from insect,
meat and fish extract |
|
E635 |
Same source as
E631 |
|
E640 |
- |
|
E920 |
Naturally occurring
amino acid manufactured from animal hair and chicken
feathers |
· Rennet is an enzyme which
can be animal or microbial. It is a
mixture of 2 enzymes derived from calves’ stomachs and is used in
cheese-making. Whey powder is a
product of cheese-making using rennet.
If the rennet is extracted from an Islamically slaughtered animal, it is
halal. If not, scholars differ in
opinion, with permissible and impermissible fatwas arising. Therefore consumption of whey powder and
rennet-based products depends on which fatwa is held to. According to taqwa, abstinence is
desirable. As far as possible, buy
cheese suitable for vegetarians.
CAKES
Cadbury’s (Manor
Bakeries)
· halal - Caramel Cake Bars,
Caramel Cakes (Selection Pack), Caramel Mini Cake Bars, Chocolate Flake Cake,
Chocolate Mini Rolls, Christmas Log, Christmas Pudding Cakes, Creamy White
Buttons Cakes, Flake Cakes, Fry’s Turkish Delight Cakes, Fudge Cakes, Jaffa
Cubes, Milk Choc Mini Cake Bars, Milk Chocolate Cake Bars, Mini Swiss Gateaux,
Mini Yule Logs, Orange Choc Roll, Orange Egg Cake, Rich Chocolate Roll, Snow
Flake Cakes, Swiss Gateaux, Toffee Mini Rolls, Turkish Delight Mini Cake
Bars
Lyons
Cake
·
Battenberg; Buttercream
Sandwich; Carrot Corner House Cake; Chocolate – Crunch Cakes, Cup Cakes, Fudge
Cake, Sandwich, Slices, Swiss Roll; Coconut Crunch Cakes; Easter Egg Cakes;
Family Chocolate Swiss Roll; Farmhouse Slices; French Sandwich; Jaffa fingers;
Jumbo Chocolate Swiss Roll; Lemon – Cup Cakes, Curd Tarts, Slices; Lyons 6
Chocolate Cup Cakes; Mandarin Chocolate Cake and Roll; Merry Mellows; Mince
Pies; Orange Cup Cakes; Raspberry & Vanilla Swiss Roll; Raspberry Swiss
Roll; Trifle Sponges; Viennese Whirls
Mr
Kipling
· Almond Slices, Angel Slices,
Apricot & Raisin Flapjacks, Bakewell Slices, Bakewell Tart, Battenberg,
Black Forest Slices, Caramel Shortcakes, Cherry Bakewells, Cherry Slices,
Chocolate Chip Cake Bars, Christmas Slices, classic Collection, Country Slices,
Classic Collection, Country Slices, Double Chocolate Cake Bites, Dundee Slices,
Fruit Trifles, Individual Apple & Blackcurrant Pie, Jam Tarts Selection,
Lemon Slices, Manor House Cake, Marble Choc & Vanilla Slices, Mince Parcels,
Mince Pies, Mini Battenberg, Mini Coconut and Lemon Sponge Cakes, Mini
Orange/Lemon Battenberg Cakes, Mini Victoria Sponge Cakes, Mini Xmas Cakes, Rich
Chocolate Slices, Santa Bake, Stollen Slices, Strawberry Sundaes, Tangy Lemon
Tartlets, Treacle Tart
DRINKS
All Normal & Diet -
Seven Up, Coca-Cola, Sprite, Lilt, Fanta, Tango, Pepsi Cola; Schweppes, Five Alive, Fruit Burst,
Sunny Delight, Lucozade, Ribena
SNACKS/CRISPS
Bestfoods UK Ltd
· pot noodles with
chicken/beef/turkey flavour certified ‘Suitable For Vegetarians’ and therefore
HALAL
Golden
Wonder
· halal – GW Pickled Onion,
Prawn Cocktails, Spring Onion, Ringos Cheese and Onions
Kettle Foods
Ltd
· halal – Kettle Baked Potato
Chip: flavours Sea Salt and Olive Oil, Sundried Tomato and Herb, sour Cream and
Chips, Kettle Chips: flavours Balsamic vinegar and Sea Salt, Butter and Mint
Seasonal Edition, French Onion, Kansas City Barbacue, Lightly Salted, Salsa with
Mequite, Stilton & Poer Seasonal Edition, Kettle Poppins – American Cheese
Maple Syrup and Sea Salt
· Kettle Chips Yoghurt and
Green Onion – contains calf whey powder/syrup
KP Foods
Groups
· halal - “Nutsters” Soury
Crunchy Peanuts Ready Salted, Dry Roasted Peanuts, Dry Roasted Peanuts Salt
& Vinegar flavour, McCoys Original Thick Crunchy Potato chips, Ready Salted,
Spicy Tomato/Tomato Sauce Flavour, Worcester Sauce Flavour and Salt &
Vinegar - Mcvities “Go Ahead” Oven Bake , Hula Hoops, Crisps, Frisps, Discos,
Minichips, Roasted Peanuts Tabago Chilli Flavour, Salted Roasted
Almonds
Procter & Gamble
Limited
· halal - Pringles – Barbecue,
Cheez-Ums, Ridges Original, Salt & Vinegar, Sour Cream &
Onion
Walkers Snack Foods
Limited
· halal – Cheese & Onion
French Fries; Doritos Dippas; Prawn Cocktail and Salt & Vinegar – Quavers;
Ready Salted and Salt & Vinegar – Chipsticks, French Fries; Smiths – Cheese
& Onion Crisps, Ready Salted Crisps, Salt & Vinegar Crisps, Salt ‘n’
Shake; Walkers – Cheese & Chive Crisps, Prawn Cocktail Crisps, Ready Salted
Crisps, Ready Salted Lites, Spring Onion Crisps, MAX Salt & Vinegar, MAX
Original
· these products contain
rennet in the cheese flavouring – Cheese Quavers; Cheesy Monster Munch; Savoury
Cheese Snaps; Spicy Tomato Snaps; Walkers - Cheese & Onion Crisps, Cheese
& Onion Lites, Tomato Ketchup Crisps, MAX Hard Cheese &
Onion
· it is obvious that Doritos
is not present in the halal section as it has been confirmed that all Doritos (except Doritos Dippas) contain animal
substances
SPREADS
Chivers Hartley
· halal – Cadbury Chocolate
Spreads Smooth Chocolate, Milk Chocolate and Banana
Ferrero UK
Limited
· Nutella Hazelnut Chocolate
Spread – contains calf whey powder/syrup
SWEETS/CHOCOLATES
Cadbury
Limited
· halal – Allora; Boost;
bournville; California Dreaming; Creamy White Buttons; Dairy Mile – Normal,
Miniatures, Quick, Wildlife; Double Fudge Dream; Flake; Freddo; Fruit & Nut;
Hazelnut Heaven; Marble; Milk Chocolate Buttons; Orange Cream; Orange Milk
Chocolate; Peppermint; Roses – Brazilnut Caramel, Caramel, Caramel Keg, Coconut,
Coffee Flavour Crème, Fudge, Hazel In Caramel, Hazel Whirl, Milk Chocolate
Miniature, Montelimar, Nutty Truffle Log, Noisette Whirl, Orange Crème, Plian
chocolate Miniature, Strawberry Rose, Truffle Chunk; Shortcake Snack; Snack
Sandwich chocolate; Starbar; Three Wishes; Time Out; Twirl; Wafer Snack;
wholenut; Wispa – Gold, Mint, Normal; Yowie
Daintee
· halal – Blackcurrent +
Liquorice; Brazil Nut Toffee; chocolate Caramels; Chocolate Eclairs; Chocolate
Fudge; Chocolate Limes; Mint Assortment; Mint Humbugs; Orange Creams; Orange
Lemon Slices; Peppermint Creams; Sparkling Mints; Vanilla Fudge; Harlows
Mintoes
Ferrero UK
Limited
· halal – Kinder – Bueno,
Chocolate, Surprise; Tic Tac – Fresh Mint, Lime/Orange,
Orange
· Ferrero Rocher Chocolates –
contains calf whey powder/syrup
Fisherman’s
Friend
· halal – Aniseed, Lemon,
Original, Original Noaodep Sugar Lozenges; Sugar Free Mints; Super
Strongmint
Mars Confectionery UK
Limited
· halal – Bounty – Dark, Milk,
Milk Twin and Funsize; Galaxy – Block, Caramel, Caramel Cracker, Caramel Eggs,
Caramel Hearts, Caramel Tree Decoration, Fruit and Nut, Hazelnut, Ministicks,
Minstrels, Ripple, Silk Eggs; Lockets : All Varieties; M&M; Maltesers; Mars;
Milky Way Magic Star & Tree Decorations; Miniatures; Revels; Skittles;
Snickers; Starburst; Starburst Joosters; topic; Tracker Chocolate Chip and Roast
Nut; Tunes: All Varieties; Twix
· these products contain calf
whey powder/syrup – Bounty Milk Miniatures; Celebration; Funsize – Mars, Milky
Way, Snickers; Standard Size and Twin – Galaxy Caramel Swirls and M&M’s
Peanut, Milky Way Crispy Rolls, Milky Way; Twix Kingsize
Nestle UK Limited (Nestle
Rowntree)
· halal - After Eight Thin
Mints; Black Magic – Chocolate Brazil, Lemon Dream, Orange Cream, Raspberry
Roulade, Tablet, toffee & Mallow; Dairy Box – Chocolate Brazil, Hazelnut
Caramel; Fox’s Glacier Fruits and Mints; Jellytots; Maverick; Milky Bar and
Buttons; Mint Munchies; Polo Mint – Original, Strong, Spearmint, Sugar Free,
Supermints; Quality Street – Fruits of the Forest, Orange Crème, Strawberry
Crème, Toffee Penny, Smarties, Toffo – Assorted, Mint, Plain; Zploder
Bar
· these products contain calf
whey powder/syrup – Aero – Milk chocolate, Orange, Peppermint; Animal Bar; Black
Magic – Caramel, Hazel Cluster, Hazel in Caramel; Blue Ribband; Breakaway – Milk
Camarac and Milk Chocolate; Caramac; Dairy Box – Almond Fayre, Autumn Hazelnut,
Caramel Classic, Country Fudge, Nut Swirl, Strawberry Fool, Toffee Cup, Turkish
Delight, Vanilla Truffle, Wafer Sandwich; Golden Cup; Kit Kat; Lion Bar;
Matchmakers – Coconut, Mint, Orange; Milkybar White Chocolate Mini Eggs;
Munchies; Quality Street – Caramel Cup, Coconut Éclair, Dairy Fudge, Fruit &
Nut Delight, Hazelnut Éclair, Hazelnut in Caramel, Milk chocolate Hazelnut,
Noisette Triangle, Toffee Deluxe, Toffee Fingers, Vanilla Octagon; Rolo Bar;
Rolo; Smarties – orange only; Vice Versas; Walnut whip – Vanilla; White
Chocolate After Eight Think Mint; Yorkie – Milk Chocolate, Nutter, Raisin &
Biscuit#
Thorntons
PLC
· halal – Assorted Range;
Choccie; Conti; Dark Chocolates; Diabetic Chocolates; Liquorice; Luxury Cream;
Milk Chocolates; Mint Chocolates; MK Chocolate Range, Orange Bars; Peanut
Brittle; Toffee Bags; White Chocolate; White Mint Bags;
Jellies
Trebor Bassett
Limited
· halal – Barker & Dobson;
Barratt; Bassett’s Fundays (except Rum and Butter Toffee); Butterkist &
Pimms Popcorn; Jameson’s Chocolate Range; Pascall; Sharp;
Trebor
DAIRY
PRODUCTS
Kraft Jacobs
Suchard
· halal – Dairylea Cheese
Spreads; Kraft – Cheddarie, Cracker, Philadelphia, Processed
Slices
· Kraft Singles Cheese Food
Slices contains calf rennet
New Zealand Milk (UK)
Ltd
· halal - Acorn Butter; Anchor
Butter
St Ivel
Limited
· halal – Butter; Gold Range;
Golden Churn; Supersoft Spread; Utterly Butterly; Vitalite; Cheese: Blue
Stilton; Brie; Cheddar; Cheshire; Cotsdale; Double Gloucester; English Cheese;
Farmhouse; Mature; Mild; Red Leicester; Scottish; Shape Cottage Cheese;
Vegearian White Mild; Wexford; Dessert: Luxury Devonshire Trifles; Shape Rice
Desserts
ICE-CREAM
Birds Eye Wall’s
Limited
· halal – Blue Ribbon –
Raspberry Ripple Slice, Vanilla, Neapolitan; Callipo; Carte D’Or; Catering Slice
– Strawberry, Vanilla; Choc Bar – Blue Ribbon Milk Chocolate, Chunky, Chunky
Dark, Blue Ribbon Dark, Light and Toffee, Golden Vanilla, Cadbury Dairy Milk;
Cornetto – Mint Choc Chip, Chocolate (Winter Range), Choc & Nut, Strawberry;
Cream of Cornish Vanilla; Dairy Cream Eclairs; Elite Tub – Strawberry, Vanilla;
Feast – The Bar (UK); Gino Ginelli – Choc Chip, Double Choc Crunch, Mint Choc
Chip, Toffee Fudge, Tutt Frutti; Joe Snow; Kick Off; Magnum – Cone, Dark Choc,
Mint, Orange Choc, White Choc; Max
– Fruit Split Orange, Lemon Fruit Ice, Milk Ice, Mini Pot, Mint Cone; Mini –
Eclairs, Juice Apple, Milk Choc, Strawbery, Vanilla, Viennetta Toffee and
Vanilla; Orange Fruitie; Romantica – Cappuccino, Choc, Red Fruit, Vanilla
Butterscotch, Winter; Soft Scoop – Blue Ribbon Vanilla, Choc, Mint, Strawberry,
Toffee; Solero; Tangle; Too Good To Be True; Twinpack; Viennetta – all flavours;
Wall’s Dairy; Wall’s Real Dairy Premium
Mars confectionery UK
Limited
· halal – Skittles Ice Cream,
Starburst
·
Chocolate Covered Ice Cream
contains calf whey powder/syrup
These companies usually
label their products with ‘Suitable
For Vegetarian’ labels.
BISCUITS
Burton’s Biscutis,
Crawford’s, Fox’s Biscuits, Mcvitie’s (UK), Pennywise, Rumpler’s Confectionery,
The Ryvita Company Limited
TINNED FOOD (eg soup, baked
beans,…)
Baxters of Speyside Limited,
H. J. Heinz Limited, Weigh Watchers (Heinz), Bestfoods UK Ltd, Campbell’s
Grocery Products Ltd
COOKING SAUCE/SALAD
DRESSING/SEASONINGS/MIXES/PASTES
Baxters of Speyside Limited,
Bestfoods UK Ltd, Campbell’s Frozen Foods Ltd, H.J Heinz Limited, Nestle UK
Limited, Patak (Spices) Limited, Weight Watchers (Heinz)
CEREALS/GRAINS
Jordan’s Cereals Limited
· Country Crisp with Luxury
Raisins, Raspberries or Strawberries contain calf whey
powder/syrup
Kellogg Supply Service
(Europe) Ltd
· haram – Frosted Wheats
(contains gelatine), Raisin Splitz (glycerin ingredient may be prepared from
either vegetable or animal sources), Toppas, Kellogg’s Frosted Pop-Tarts
(contains gelatine derived from pork or beef)
· Coco Pops & Country
Store – whey powder used is a by-product of the dairy industry, specifically
cheesemaking. Rennet is utilized in
this process but is of microbial origin, NOT from calves or other
sources
· Fruit ‘n’ Fibre, Common
Sense Oat Bran Flakes with Raisin and Apple and Golder Crsps – ingredients
contain glycerated vine fruits and raisins but glycerin used for this purpose is
synthetic and is NOT derived from animal sources
Quaker Oats
Limited
Weetabix
Limited
· Alpen Crunch Alpen contains
calf whey powder/syrup
COSMETICS
Colgate-Palmolive Ltd
· halal - Soft ‘n’ Gentle
Antiperspirants, Palmolive Shave Foams and Gels, Colgate Toothpastes – all
varieties
Avon Cosmetic Limited
· halal -After Shave
Gel/Lotion, Aromatherapy Products; Bath Foam; Bath Oil; Body Sprays; Bronze
Range; Bubble Baths; California
Range; Camille Albane Range; Casbah Cream; Clearskin Range; Country Harvest;
Daily Revival Moisturiser; Face Masks; Floralique; Footworks; Gardenia Perfume;
Liquid Cleanser; Man Plus Moisturiser and Cleanser; Moisture Rich Range; Nail
Perfect Range; Naturals Range; Nurtura Range; Perle Noire Bath Oil and Deodrant;
Pure Care; Techniques Hair Products; Tranquil Moments Range;
Vip
Elida Faberge
· halal - Pond’s Dry Skin
Cream, Pond’s Moisturiser, Mentodent Toothpaste
Body Shop
· these products contain
ingredients which are by-products of the meat industry: Bath Beads – all
varieties, Bath Bubbles – Cola, Forest Jelly, Ice Cream, Satsuma, Strawberry;
Hawthorn Hand Cream; Shampoo – Mint & Thyme, Orange Oat, Seaweed &
Peony; Tea Tree Oil Facial Wash
MEDICINE
Smithkline Beecham
· halal – Beechams 75 mg
Aspirin Tablet; Beechams Hot Lemon; Diocalm Junior; Fynnos Salt; Germoloene:
Cream/Wipes/Fotspray; Night Nurse Liquid; Oxy: Medicated Cream/ Cleanser/
Duopads/Facial Wash; Phensic Soluble; Veno: Expectorant/Cough Misture; Corsodyl:
Gel/Spray/Mouthswash; Maclean Active Mouthguard; Aquafresh range – tube; Fenjal
Classic Bath; Beechams hot Blackcurrant; Day Nurse Liquid; Enos Fruit Salts
(regular); Flynnos Calcium Aspirin; Germoloids: Cream/Tissues; Maccleans
Indigestion Tablets; Ralgex: Cream/Spray/Freeze; Spray
Resolve
·
doubtful: these products may
contain animal-derived materials – Ashton & Parsons Infant Powder; Beechams:
Pills, Hot Lemon With Honey, Powder Capsules, Powder Tablets, Powders,
Couchcaps; Contac 400; Day Nurse Capsules; Ellimans Embrocation; Germolene
Ointment; Germoloids -
Suppositories, Ointment; Orovide 7 Sachets, Tablets; Oxy – 5 Lotion (advanced
formula), Sensitive Facial Wash, 10 Cover-up; Phensic; Scotts Emulsion;
Settlers; Veno Honey & Lemon; Yeastvite; Macleans – Sensitive Tube &
Pump, Freshmit Pump, Mildmint Pump, Milk Teeth Tube & Pump, Frestmint Tube,
Mildmint Tube; Aquafresh – Fresh ‘n’ Minty Pump, Mild ‘n’ Minty Pump; C-Vit
Tablets; Diocalm & Diocalm Ultra, Eno Lemon & Orange; Iron Jelloids;
Night Nurse Capsules; Phyllosan; Ralgex Stick; Sominex;
Vykmin
For further and more
detailed information, please refer to:
· Muslim Food Guide of Halaal
Products (publication)
1420/21 Hijrah
(2000) 3rd Edition
· The Institure of Islamic
Jurisprudence of U.K.
68 Broomsdale
Road, Batley
West Yorkshire
WF17 6PJ
· Al-Madina
Publications
13 Carlton
Avenue, Batley
West Yorkshire
WF17 7AQ
Tel: (01924)
444666
Fax: (01924)
477223
E-mail: halaal@almadina.co.uk
http://www.almadina.co.uk
Zulkaedah 1420 / February
2000
