salam alaykum wa rahmatullah wa baraktu brothers and sister..i hve just read that there are some additives in food that areharamlike E120 for examplebut there ar additives in loads of foods how would we know?i know it is haram because of the wrong way of killing and stuff but its difficult to know if something has it .."An expensive red colouring, not suitable for vegetarians as it is extracted from the crushed carcasses of the female Dactylopius coccus, a cactus-feeding scale insect, which are killed by either immersion in hot water or by exposure to sunlight, steam, or the heat of an oven. The variety in the appearance of commercial cochineal is caused by these differing methods. It takes around 70,000 insects to make one pound of cochineal. "
Haram additives with “E” prefixes E120, E140, E141, E252, E422, E430, E431, E470, E471, E472(a), E472(b), E472(c), E472(d), E472(e), E473, E474, E475, E477, E478, E481, E482, E483, E491, E492, E494. Haram additives without “E” prefixes 120, 141, 160(A), 161, 252, 300, 301, 422, 430, 431, 433, 435, 436, 441, 470, 471, 472(a, e), 473, 474, 475, 476, 477, 481, 482, 483, 491, 492, 494, 542, 570, 572, 631, 635, 920. Source: Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (MUIS)
wa alaykum salam i definately not able to answer that - you should speak to a sheikh BUT i commented only because i found an APP for iphones 'halal food' its really deatiled ... :)
When I was in Netherlands, I stayed away from these ingredients which contains animal addition. I simply found a website about these and print it out in small fonts and kept in my wallet all the time. After a few shopping you can memorize it. You are absolutely right. They may be not pork but could be haram meat. Especially stay away from GELATIN, most of the cakes contains it.
Well, if youreally" want to be healthy, then don't eat processed anything. The only thing I buy premade is bread because I'm a modern woman :P but everything else should be fresh. Processed food causes disease and diabetes and autism and all kinds of crazy stuff. You neverk now what's in it unless you are a chemist and know what red dye 4 and yellow 6 and maltoblablabla is.
