Halal & Haram Guide

Click on the link below to find food and other stuff concerning food that should be avoided by Muslims.

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Here are the haraam E' numbers that come in most chocolates in the UK

Halal & Haram Guide

Ingredients Brief Description

1. E120 Cochineal. Fatty acids and egg yolks of dried female insect Dactilopius coccus & 10% of carminic acid.
2. E140 Fatty acids and phosphates
3. E141 Fatty acids
4. E252 Waste animal and vegetable material
5. E422 Fatty acids, by-products in the manufacturing of soaps
6. E430 Fatty acids molecules
7. E431 Fatty acids
8. E470 Sodium, potassium and calcium of slats of fatty acids
9. E471 Glycerine and fatty acids
10. E472(a) Acetic acid esters of mono and di-glycerides of fatty acids
11. E472(b) Lactic acid ester of mono and di-glycerides of fatty acids
12. E472(c.) Citric acid ester of mono and di-glycerides of fatty acids
13. E472(d) Tartaric acid ester of mono and di-glycerides of fatty acids
14. E472(e) Mono-diaceryltartaric acid ester of mono and di-glycerides of fatty acids
15. E473 Sucrose esters of fatty acids
16. E474 Lard (pig fat), tallow (hard animals fat), palm-oil and etc
17. E475 Polyglycerol esters of fatty acids
18. E477 Proplylene glycol esters of fatty acids
19. E478 Lactylated acid esters of glycerol and propene 1, 2 diol
20. E481 Sodium Stearoyl-2 lactylate
21. E482 Calcium Steasroyl-2 lactylate
22. E483 Stearyl Tartarate
23. E491 Sorbitan monostearate
24. E492 Sorbitan tristearate (span 65)
25. E494 Sorbitan mono oleate (span 80)

The following without 'E' prefixes are also Haram:-
476 Polyglycerol esters of polycondensed acids of castor oil
542 Edible bone phosphates
570 Steearic acid
572 Magnesium stearate
631 Meat extracts, dried sardines and sodium 5-insosinate


Others to note as Haram too:-
120
141
160(A)
161
252
300
301
433
435
422
430
431
471
472(a.e)
436
441
470
476
477
473
474
475
491
492
481
482
483
570
572
494
542
631
635
920