Halal Products Criteria Certification E-Numbers Ingredients Fiqh FAQ News Halal Bar Soap Halal If No Alcohol Used in Fragrance Carmex's Click Stick & Other Products Are Halal Some Bayer's Extra Strength Tablets Are Free From Animal Derived Ingredients & Alcohol Alerts Changes In the Halal Status Of Wrigley Gums Prilosac OTC Are Not Halal Not All Bayer's Asprin Products Are Halal Not All Kosher Certified Foods Are Halal Red Bull Energy Drink Are Not Halal Links Muslim Consumer Group home contact Us site map     Hidden Ingredients In Food Products These ingredients are called processing aid ingredients and they help the ingredients or food products to over come some processing problem. FDA allows processing aid ingredients in a food product or ingredient up to 2% maximum of the formula. It means that 98% of the formula of a food product or food ingredient are listed on the package under ingredients list and remaining 2% of the formula which may contains one or many ingredients are excluded from listing on the package under ingredients list. Halal certified or Kosher certified food products (which meet the Halal requirements) protect Muslim consumers from Haram processing aid or hidden ingredients. Here are the examples of processing aid or ingredients in a food product or in a food ingredient:   Ingredient & Food Package Unmentioned Hidden Ingredients     Apple Joice  Gelatin (used to remove cloudiness in apple) Beta Carotene  Vegetable oil or gelatin/Halal with U symbol Bagel (Fresh)  Bacterial Amylase Enzyme (Halal) added as an ingredient BHA & BHT  Vegetable oil or animal fat FD&C Yellow No. 5  Vegetable oil or glycerin (animal fat/plant fat) and other Numbers colors Milk with Vitamin A & D  Polysorbate 80 (a plant fat based emulsifier), Propylene Glycol (petroleum) and Sodium Kosher  Benzoate (All Vitamins Mixes are Kosher certified & Halal) McDonald French Fries  Non-Zabiha Beef extract in Natural Flavor Majority of cheeses  Growth Cultural Media used to grow Starter Growth Cultural Media used to grow Starter Cultures added to milk for cheese making Rennet Sodium Chloride, Boric acid, Sodium Benzoate Soy Sauce (Naturally Brewed   3% Ethyl Alcohol (Haram Ingredient) Sunny Delight  Fish Gelatin in Beta carotene color Turmeric Color  Polysorbate 80 a fat based emulsifier        Last Modified: Sunday April 09 2006

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