Following, a short list of products for helping with the knowledge of that the consumer ingests.

Ethylical alcohol (or Ethanol) is a transparent liquid product that is acquired after vegetables are fermented, specially the sugar cane.It is utilized in alcoholic beverages and as a solvent food adictives.

• Alcoholic beverage is haram.
• Food prepared with alcohol is haram.

There are other alcohols that are allowed (halal) by the Islamic Jurisdiction: the derivates of petroleum, for example propyleno glycol.

Coagulums extracted from the stomack of bossies and bulls.

• It’s halal if it is extracted from slaughtered animals according to the Islamic Jurisdiction.

• It’s haram if they were obtained without the Islamic slaughtering.

Today there is a bigger belief that the coagulum of microbian origin is 100% halal.

The red pigment carmine (carmine acid, cochineal). Origin: extracted from the dry parts of the insect’s female body (Dactilipius Coccuss), that lives in native cactus in Mexico and that are cultivated in South America. According to our fellow instructions is spreading around the world, this product was claimed as haram. Our fellows follow the knowledge of the noble studios Hanafi Muzhab.

The gelatin is a collagen extraced from the animals skin and bones. Most of gelatin found in Brazilian supermarkets have a suine origin, so they are haram. Brazilian Jurisdiction doesn’t obligate the gelatin producers to justify its origin in the packages or in the labels.

• Type A gelatin is from suine origin, Haram.

• Type B gelatin is from bovine origin. To be considered halal it must come from animals that were slaughtered according to Islamic rituals.

• Fish gelatin is Halal.

• Vegetable gelatin is Halal.

Seek information with manufacturers about the source of gelatin to be consumed. Case of pork, you will be consuming a food haram.

The L-Cetein is a very utilized ingredient in panification products and flavours.It’s extracted from human hair, plumes of birds and sintetic materials.

• It’s halal if originated from sintetic materials (petroleum) or from plumes of birds like chickens, hans and ducks, slaughtered in accordance with Islamic jurisdiction.

• It’s haram if originated from human hair.

Vegetal and Animal fats

• It’s halal if achieved 100% from vegetals or from animals slaughtered in accordance with Islamic jurisdiction.

• It’s haram if achieved from suine or from animals that weren’t slaughtered in accordance with Islamic jurisdiction.

Lipase is an enzim extracted from the suine liver, pancreas and stomach. It can come from vegetals, too.

• It’s halal if comes from vegetals.

• It’s haram if has an animal origin.

Pepsine is a digestive enzim extracted fom the suine stomach, so, it’s haram.

Development center of conception and system Halal in Brazil.

The Brazilian Islamic Center of Halal Food (CIBAL halal).

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