So I just learned about vanilla extract. What foods have vanilla extract in them? Is there any other hidden alcohol that I should be aware of?
How much alcohol does something have to have before it is haram?
Thank you!
So I just learned about vanilla extract. What foods have vanilla extract in them? Is there any other hidden alcohol that I should be aware of?
How much alcohol does something have to have before it is haram?
Thank you!
By the way, if you bake your own cakes or cook other food that require vanilla flavor, you don't have to use vanilla extracts, there are other alternatives:
(cured) Vanilla beans, vanilla powder, vanilla-vanillin powder or vanillin.
Last edited by Ramadhan; 06-30-2011 at 02:59 AM.
Ramadhan, thank you so much! You've put me at ease
Hmm does this mean you can eat food cooked with alcohol (not in alcohol) in restaurants? Sometimes places add a little red or white wine in the cooking process. It wouldn't break any of the rules above because 1) It does not intoxicate, 2) The majority of the dish is pure and does not taste of wine, and 3) It is not prepared by you. Clarifications?
I don't know the answer to that. If you ask me, my hunch is it is haram, and I personally wouldn't eat food that I know it has been cooked with alcohol added. But that's just my opinion.
I think you'd better ask scholars, and I will read up more on the issue.
I'd deem it halal, since (in addition to everything else) ethanol boils at a lower temperature than water. It is the first thing to boil away when cooking anything, there should at most be a minuscule trace left when the food is done and served. Or at least that's what I've heard from people with an interest in that kind of cooking.
Weird, there is something called sugar intoxication in the Finnish language. It's a state of elevated blood sugar that makes you feel high, followed by a crash after which you feel tired and hungry.
Well, if you maintain that, it would follow that anything with a very small alcohol concentration would be halal too because of the same reason.It's not irrelevant. If you can never consume that amount of something without vomiting or dying from something else first then obviously it's not going to be an intoxicant.
I wouldn't eat it either, but it's an interesting question.
I'll be sure to ask the next time I bump into one
Similar to coffee then but I don't think it can be called intoxication in the haraam sense.
Last edited by Dagless; 06-30-2011 at 04:39 PM.
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Btw, it's possible to buy vanilla extract/flavouring (can't remember which) which is alcohol-free.
Assalamwaleikum,
Just so that everyone in this discussion knows, our prophet peace be upon him used to have vinegar. Vinegar is made using alcohol. Even though when It ferments into vinegar the ethanol (alcohol) changes chemically, there are still trace amount left in vinegar even though it’s not intoxicating. So my point is that when vanilla extract is used in baking, the heat from the baking will boil out any of the minute amour of ethanol that was in the product leaving only a trace amount that is not going to intoxicate a person. Even if I ate 500 whole cakes I wouldn’t get drunk, I’d just have a very bad stomach ache.
Also, let’s keep in mind that there are many different extract besides vanilla extract. So MANY of the foods that we eat contain some kind of extract unless it’s raw fruit and vegetables hahaha.
I myself have so many questions about this subject and I’m here to learn.
thank you ❤️
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