Halal Haram List Of Ingredients To Avoid

By Nikita Mandhani Whenever Anas Razzaq shopped for groceries in Chicago, he labored to understand whether the canned food and chocolate and chips conformed to the ideal Islamic diet. Frustrated, he did what many young millennials would do – he invented an app. Razzaq calls it “Scan Halal.” It is designed to describe the ingredients of food items and tell Muslims whether the product they are buying is permissible in Islam or not. Sometimes the app has unintended consequences, like for Rand Alkurd, a North Carolina resident who sighs because “you can’t have Cheetos anymore, not even some Doritos.” But, for many others, Razzaq’s Scan Halal is a blessing. Here’s how the app works: Once the users download the app on their Android or Apple smart phones, they can customize the settings according to their interpretation of halal, which refers to products acceptable in the Islamic diet, and haram, which includes items made of religiously barred ingredients such as pork and alcohol.

After that, they can scan the barcode of any product that they wish to purchase and the app would tell them whether it is permissible or not. “I started this app with the idea of empowering individuals to make informed decisions,” said Razzaq. “Aside from statuses of food items, we also provide sources and explanation to help the users decide for themselves.” A screenshot of the app which shows the ingredients of M&M chocolate candies (Nikita Mandhani/Medill Reports) Yasmeen Kiswani lives in the Chicago suburb of Plainfield. She started using the app when it was first released in December 2014. Her mother would always buy mint from a specific manufacturer.

One day, Kiswani resolved to scan the mint that they had been eating for years and found out that it had gelatin in it. “It opened my eyes,” said Kiswani. “We use these products for so long and we don’t even realize that they are haram.” The app provides its users with three user settings. A screenshot showing the permissible settings on the scan halal app (Nikita Mandhani/Medill Reports) Under the “zabiha” setting, even the slightest amount of alcohol content, pork derivatives or meat products would be non-permissible.

LIST OF HALAL AND HARAM FOOD INGREDIENTS. Cakewalk si string section vsti synths 1. This is a discussion on LIST OF HALAL AND HARAM FOOD INGREDIENTS within the Zaarori Maloomat forums, part of the Mera Deen Islam category; INTRODUCTION We hope that this information will be of great use to you and that you will read the ingredient. Identify the Halal/Haram/Mushbooh status of each ingredient using this guide. Search the ingredient name in the list and its status will be next to it.

Razzaq calls the zabiha a “more stringent” standard. Meat products that have a “halal” logo, which means that they have been slaughtered in a manner acceptable in Islam, are permissible for people following this benchmark. The “non-zabiha” setting is more lax and considers all meat except pork as permissible irrespective of the cutting technique, while the “custom” setting allows the user to enter specific dietary restrictions like a set proportion of alcohol content that they wouldn’t mind in their products or some ingredients that they wish to avoid in their diet. Abdallah Alatoom, who lives in Chicago, scans almost every product before purchasing it to make sure that it falls under the purview of Islam. The one thing he loves about the app is that it lists all products that other users have scanned as it helps him get information about some products without even scanning them. Their family scans cereals, chips, candies, sauces and hotdogs among other edibles.