CONTENTS

• Fast Food
• Biscuits and Cookies
• Candy and Caramel
• Chips
• Biscuits for Babies
• Powdered Milk for Babies
• Baby's Food
• Yogurt
• Margarine
• Bread
• Sandwich Sold at Convinient Store
• Shredded Bread (Flour)
• Instant Noodles
• Miso
• Soy Sauce
• Vinegar
• Mirin
• Food Additive

Both beef and chicken are haram as they are slaughtered in non-Islamic way. Refer to each paragraph about oil that is used in frying as each company prepares differently.

Mc Donald
The mixture of vegetable oil and beef fat is used.
Lotteria
Though vegetable oil is used for cooking, prawn hamburgers, potatoes and pies are fried together with pork and chicken.
Mos Burger
Though vegetable oil is used for cooking, fish and potatoes are fried together with pork. The item that is not fried is as follows:
       Rice Burger Kimpira
               (must be ordered without bacon)
Kentucky
Though vegetable oil is used for cooking, fish, potatoes and pie are fried together with chicken; The items which are not fried are as follows:
       Biscuit (only vegetable shortening is used)
       Yakimusubi (Roasted rice ball)
Mr. Donut
Only vegetable shortening and vegetable oilis used. So all donuts and muffins are halal (except pies with sausages and hams)
 

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BISCUITS AND COOKIES

Refer to each paragraph about component of shortening as each company uses different material. Some of flavors contain a very small amount of alcohol, but there is no problem as the amount of alcohol avaporates during baking process. Special attention should be paid on soft cakes, because alcohol is sprayed for the purpose of prevention against putrefaction.

Morinaga
Animal shortening is used. Example in which shortening is not used are as follows:
Choco Chip Cookie
Yamazaki-Nabisco
Animal shortening is contained in items indicated as just "shortening". There is no problem when it is indicated as "vegetable shortening". Examples in which animal shortening is not used are as follows:
    Premium Cracker
    Picola
    Sesame Cracker
    Yasai Cracker
    Butter Cookie
    Pea Cam Cookie
    Chips A-Hoi
    Chocolabor
    Castored Wafers
    Cocoa Wafers
    Cream Wafers
    Ronge-dosha
Tohato
Animal shortening is contained in some of the products. Examples in which animal shortening is not used are as follows:
    Organic Raisen Cookie
    Organic Sesami Cookie
    Organic Chocochip Cookie
    Kokoron
    Tetsu-sengen
Fujiya
Animal Shortening is contained in some of the products. Examples in which animal shortening is not used as follows:
    Home Pie
    Biscottino
    Kongari Cheese Pie
    Koucha-to Milk-no Pie
Bourbon
Animal Shortening is contained in some of the products. Examples in which animal shortening is not used as follows:
    Doubutsuko-no-Yume
    Rumando
    Choco Chip Cookie
    Choco and Coffee
    Elise
    Roanne
Glico
Animal Shortening is contained in some of the products. Examples in which animal shortening is not used as follows:
    Pretz (only Roasted, Fresh Butter and Milk Flavor)
    Komekko (only Hotate flavor)
    Bisco
    Colon
    Kitty Land
    Pocky (except marble flavor and royal milk tea flavor)
Nisshin Cisco
Animal Shortening is contained in some of the products. Examples in which animal shortening is not used as follows:
    Choco Flake
    Crisp cake
Lotte
Only vegetable Shortening is used. So all products are halal. Typical trade names are as follows:
    Pie-no-Mi
    Chococo
    Koala no March
Meiji
Vegetable shortening or the mixture of vegetable and fish shortening is used, so all products are halal. Typical trade names are as follows:
    Butter Cookie
    Fruit sandwiched Cookie
    Rich & Rich
    McBity Digestive Biscuit
    McBity Milk Choco Biscuit
    Calcuit
    Jam sandwiched Cookie
    Plain Cracker
Ito Seika
Vegetable shortening or the mixture of vegetable and fish shortening is used, so all products are halal. Typical trade names are as follows:
    American Soft
    Nama Cream Cookie
    Merienda
    Glentoly
    Macademia Nuts Cookie
    Langry
    Choco Half
 

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CANDY AND CARAMEL

Special attention is needed on every ‘Gumi’, soft candies as ‘Hi-Chu’ (Morinaga) and sugar candies as ‘Yoguretto’ (Meiji), because gelatin is contained in them. Examples in which gelatin is not cantained are as follows:

Lotte
    Nodo-Ame
    Fruit Nodo-Ame
Morinaga
    Chupa-chaps
    Diet Candy
    Sunkist Nodo-Ame
    Minna Genki Milk Candy
    Hi soft Caramel
    SMINT
    Etiquette Nodo-Ame
    Nemurenai Coffe Candy
    Goma-Ame
    Milk Caramel
Meiji
    Chelsy
    Nodo-Ame Fruit
Nestle Mackintosh
    Ume Mint
    Lemon Mint
Warner Lumbert
    Halls
    Cloretts Candy
Fujiya
    Milky
    Pop Candy
    Anpanman Candy
    Lemon Squash Candy
    Kokutou Soft
    Fruit Drop
    Royal Milk Soft Candy
Yamazaki-Nabisco
    Kuro-ame
    Muscat
    American Cherry
    Jun Maccha-Ame
    Tencha-Ame
    Fresh Fruits
    Kyohou
    Aloe Nodo-Ame
    Rakanka Ume Nodo-Ame
    Blueberry
 

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CHIPS

Though mostly vegetable oil is used for teying, however, chicken, beef or pork extract is often used for flavoring.

BISCUIT FOR BABIES

Refer to each paragraph about ingredient of shortening as each company used different materials.

Wakodo
Animal shortening is used.
Garber
Vegetable shortening is used except ‘Hagatame Biscuits’ which contains animal shortening. Examples in which animal shortening is not used are as follows:
    Yasai Boro
    Ninjin Stick
    Horenso Stick
    Cheese Stick
    Dobutsu Biscuit
    Ryokuousyoku Yasai Stick
Meiji
Vegetable Margarine is used instead of shortening, so all products are halal. Typical trade names are as follows:
    Series of Oyatsu Box
    Seires of Yuki-dori
Yukijirushi
Only vegetable shortening is used. So all products are Halal. Typical trade names are as follows:
    Ninjin Biscuits
    Hagatame Biscuits
Q.P.
Only vegetable shortening is used. So all products are halal. Typical trade names are as follows:
    Yoi-ko-ni-nare Awa-Boro
    Yoi-ko-ni-nare Hie-Ring
    Milk Biscuit
    Calcium Yasai Biscuit
    Tamago Boro
 
 

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POWDERED MILK FOR BABIES
Special care should be taken purchasing products of Meiji and Nippon Wise because Lard is contained in these products. Examples in which lard is not used are as follows:

BABY'S FOOD

Special attention should be paid on the products of some baby’s food as weanling that use meat or meat extract. Examples in which meat or meat extract is not used are as follows:

YOGURT

While gelatin is not added in drink type of yogurt, it is used in most hard type and soft type of yogurt stabilizer. Refer to each paragraph.

MARGARINE

BREAD

SANDWICH SOLD AT CONVENIENT STORE

SHREDDED BREAD (FLOUR)

INSTANT NOODLES

MISO

SOY SAUCE

VINEGAR

MIRIN

FOOD ADDITIVE