Emulsifier/Lecithin halal?

format_quote Originally Posted by Aileen

Assalaamu alaikum,

Does anyone know if Glucose syrup and spirit vinegar are both halal?

Thank you for your time. I found out online that glucose is halal so I am assuming that glucose syrup and dried glucose syrup are also halal?

Glucose is simply natural sugar. Substitute the word sugar for glucose and your answer will be obvious. so yes sugar, sugar syrup and dried sugar syrup are halal. A person would have to go out ot their way to make them haram. If you are getting the pure product with no additives you are basically getting plant sap usually fron Sugar Cane, corn or sugar palm.

Spirit vinegar is natural vinegar and until recent times was the only vinegar available. The common distilled white vinegar of today is not true vinegar is is diluted acetic acid the acetic acid is synthesized from Acetylene gas then distilled to obtain 100% pure acetic acid which is then diluted with water to a level of 2% and sold as vinegar. If properly made spirit vinegar will be the same as the vinegar used by the Prophet(PBUT). It is fairly simple to make and since it is safe to assume the manufacturer intended to make vinegar and not wine it should be halal. Sometimes people who make homemade wine accidentally end up with vinegar instead of wine, that vinegar would be haram as the intent was to make wine not vinegar.

Thank you Brother. I hope you don't mind me clarifying a few more doubts. I was wondering if goat cheese was halal? :S I'm assuming it is since goat meat is halal as far as I know. (I'll find out if the goat cheese is suitable for veggies obviously)

Also as far as I know antichokes and aubergines are vegetarian. I know these items are probably halal but they are just things I've not come across before as far as I can remember anyway (since I'm such a picky eater).

Also, what's the verdict on prawns? From what I understand it is either halal or makruh but not haram to eat? Does makruh mean it is not a sin but best to stay away from it?

format_quote Originally Posted by Aileen

Thank you Brother. I hope you don't mind me clarifying a few more doubts. I was wondering if goat cheese was halal? :S I'm assuming it is since goat meat is halal as far as I know. (I'll find out if the goat cheese is suitable for veggies obviously)

Also as far as I know antichokes and aubergines are vegetarian. I know these items are probably halal but they are just things I've not come across before as far as I can remember anyway (since I'm such a picky eater).

Also, what's the verdict on prawns? From what I understand it is either halal or makruh but not haram to eat? Does makruh mean it is not a sin but best to stay away from it?

Here it will depend on if rennet was used to make it. If rennet was not used, it would most likely be halal as vinegar or lemon juice are the most common options. If rennet was used in making it then you will need to find out if the rennet was halal.

format_quote Originally Posted by Aileen

Also, what's the verdict on prawns? From what I understand it is either halal or makruh but not haram to eat?

The Ruling on Prawns in the Hanafi School Question #: q-15392197
Date Posted: 2004-03-04

<QUESTION>
Are prawns Halal according to the Hanafi's?

<ANSWER>
In the name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful,
The permissibility of eating prawns or otherwise (according to the Hanafi School of thought) depends on whether they are considered to be from the fish family or not.

Many scholars of the Arabic language like Imam al-Zabidi, Fayrozabadi and others have considered prawns to be fish. On the other hand, the contemporary zoologists do not consider prawns to be fish, as they do not have a spine.

Normally, the ruling of such issues is not based on technical research, rather it is based upon the understanding of the common people, and we have learnt that according to the understanding of the scholars of the Arabic language, prawns are considered fish.

Moreover, according to the other three schools of Fiqh (i.e. Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali), to eat prawns is totally permissible, which makes a leniency in the ruling.

Therefore it is permissible to eat prawns, but to refrain and abstain is always advisable.

And Allah Knows Best

Muhammad ibn Adam
Darul Iftaa
Leicester , UK

Source: http://www.daruliftaa.com/question.a...nID=q-15392197

format_quote Originally Posted by Aileen

Does makruh mean it is not a sin but best to stay away from it?

Yes.

Praise be to Allaah.

Makrooh in Arabic means the opposite of liked or loved.

In the terminology of sharee’ah it means that which the Lawgiver asks us not to do, but not in a definitive manner. It may be said that it means that the person who does not do it out of obedience will be rewarded, but the one who does it will not be punished.

Extracted from source: http://islamqa.com/en/ref/9084

format_quote Originally Posted by Aileen

AlhamduLillah,

Thank you for your help.

Does anyone know what porcini oil is? And field mushrooms are just normal mushrooms aren't they

Use caution with field mushrooms. That simply means they were harvested in the wild. Know who harvested them. there are thousands of varieties of mushrooms, many are poisonous. Use either commercially raised Mushrooms or those gathered by somebody you know who is an expert in identifying them.

Porcini oil is olive oil flavored with oil from Porcini Mushrooms. A Boletus variety the best of which come from Italy. Adds a flavor that is nearly identical to the best truffles. Very good tasting, almost a roasted Chestnut type flavor. Many myself included consider them to be much better than truffles.

A bit of trivia while not all varieties of Boletus are edible, the none edible varieties are easy to recognize also none of the non-edible ones are actually dangerous, worse scenario is in some people they can cause an upset stomach. But the non-edible ones are easy to recognize and taste horrible.

format_quote Originally Posted by Aileen

Thank you

I hope you don't think of me as rude for continuing to clarify doubts. This is really helping me though.

What exactly is ethyl alcohol? I keep finding it in different things. Krispy Kreme doughnuts are meant to have like 0.02% of it (I'm form UK btw). I recently bought ready made puff pastry and it had ethyl alcohol in it. What exactly is it? Is it permissible?

Ethyl Alcohol is Ethanol better known as: Booze, Moonshine, Everclear, Bathtub Gin,

!00 proof Vodka is 50% Ethanol 50% water. Wine is typically 7% to 14% Ethanol, Beer is 3.2% up to 5% Ethanol. Stout is 10% I think.

Ethyl alcohol is the bad stuff that is haram.

format_quote Originally Posted by Woodrow

Use caution with field mushrooms. That simply means they were harvested in the wild. Know who harvested them. there are thousands of varieties of mushrooms, many are poisonous. Use either commercially raised Mushrooms or those gathered by somebody you know who is an expert in identifying them.

thats true. correct me if im wrong, but the mushrooms which have black gills are edible but the ones with white gills are poisonous. or does it depend of your locality.

format_quote Originally Posted by Ummu Sufyaan

thats true. correct me if im wrong, but the mushrooms which have black gills are edible but the ones with white gills are poisonous. or does it depend of your locality.

There is no clear cut guide for any general rule to determine what mush rooms are edible. Mycology is a very complex science and absolute identification of any fungi reuires a microscope study of the spores. But it is known that the deadliest of mushrooms has white gills these are mushrooms in the amantia family such as the "Death Angel"



So by avoiding white gill is a good way to avoid eating an amantia.


However there are some very delicious edible mushrooms that have white gills such as the "Oyster Mushroom"



Leave mushroom gathering to the commercial growers or the experts in choosing field harvested. mushrooms. Most people these days live in cities and have not developed the skills for food foraging.

I have lived much of my life living out in the country side and so far I can only identify one edible wild Mushroom with absolute certainty.

Asalaamu alaykum,

Does anyone know if Oyster Sauce is halal? The one I have is by the company Blue Dragon and it does not state that it is suitable for vegetarians. I don't know if you can actually get oyster sauce suitable for veggies?

Actually is all shellfish halal? Is there any that we can't eat really? My understanding is that anything from the sea is halal?

Also what about soy sauce? I keep seeing that naturally brewed soy sauce is not halal? How about the Amoy light soy sauce? It states that it is naturally brewed but has added colouring and flavour enhancers to it and I also bought it from the local halal store. I'm feeling really bad because I know naturally brewed soy sauce is not halal and yet because I bought this from the halal shop, I ate it assuming it would be halal (and also because it seemed to have more ingredients to it such as favlour enhancers and colouring) which I read that natural soy sauce wouldn't have. I probably shouldn't have eaten it but I think hunger impaired my judgment, and the fact that I bought it from a halal store. I'm really worried it might have alcohol in it now.

format_quote Originally Posted by Aileen

Asalaamu alaykum,

Does anyone know if Oyster Sauce is halal? The one I have is by the company Blue Dragon and it does not state that it is suitable for vegetarians. I don't know if you can actually get oyster sauce suitable for veggies?

Actually is all shellfish halal? Is there any that we can't eat really? My understanding is that anything from the sea is halal?

Also what about soy sauce? I keep seeing that naturally brewed soy sauce is not halal? How about the Amoy light soy sauce? It states that it is naturally brewed but has added colouring and flavour enhancers to it and I also bought it from the local halal store. I'm feeling really bad because I know naturally brewed soy sauce is not halal and yet because I bought this from the halal shop, I ate it assuming it would be halal (and also because it seemed to have more ingredients to it such as favlour enhancers and colouring) which I read that natural soy sauce wouldn't have. I probably shouldn't have eaten it but I think hunger impaired my judgment, and the fact that I bought it from a halal store. I'm really worried it might have alcohol in it now.

I could be wrong but I suspect some scholars consider soy sauce haram is because it is "Brewed" "Fermented" terms that are usually associated with the making of alcohol beverages. But coffee and tea are also brewed. And Sour Kraut is fermented. Some scholars do not considered it haram as like vinegar the finished product has no alcohol

The making of soy sauce is very similar to the making of vinegar. However no drinkable wine is produced in the process. At no stage is the soy sauce ever drinkable as a beverage. The final stage in soy sauce results in the alcohol becoming lactic acid, where it differs from vinegar as in vinegar the last stage is acetic acid.

However any question can be avoided by buying the hydrolyzed soy sauce which is produced much like white vinegar and never goes through a fermentation process.

For more information about soy sauce check SOURCE

format_quote Originally Posted by Aileen

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Because if it stays there much longer, I will have to throw it out and I'm not sure if that's what I am meant to do...

Throw it out

Narrated / Authority Of: Al-Hasan bin Ali
who said : I memorized from the messenger of Allah his saying : "Leave that which makes you doubt for that which does not make you doubt." narrated by Termithi and Nasaee, and Tirmithi said it is true and fine hadith.