We bought some of these Korean
snacks that we did not know before.Ghana coco pie, corn chips, butter coconut
chips, PEPERO J,
cereal, strawberry cereal chips, and many others not visible there.
We can
eat most of them. Most of them? Yes....because the particular coco pie was not
something that we can eat since it contains gelatin from pig. So, it was a good
thing that we knew it now. Some of our friends did not know it before so before
consuming any gwaja, we should check the ingridients contained in the product.
I was lucky to be able to read Hangeul otherwise it would hard to imagine what
to eat here. The good thing about most gwaja in Korea was that
(although...sadly speaking—they are mostly written in Korean alphabet ‘hangeul’)they
provide ample information of what the ingredients were. In fact, most of them
even show where they come from. Nice, right? So, the next time we buy something
(any food) we’d always make sure that no pig or pork or any gelatin-like
ingredients were inside or contained in them. I do hope that this information
would be of help for others, too. Especially for any Muslims who concern about
the halal labeling of the food—which is a rare case, yet.
hmm. can i ask. i'm indonesian muslim. and i just got some snacks from my korean friend. i can read hangul but i don't know the meaning. so, how do i know if they are halal or not?? thank u
ReplyDeleteso..this is what we do to judge as to whether it is edible or not for us as a Moslem. Sure, it does not guarantee that it is halal. However, since most of the gwaja or snacks in Korea do not have any HALAL label (too bad, right?^^), we do the following: we mostly rely on what the ingredients for emulsifier.
Deleteso, if it contains emulsifier or gelatin from pig products, we would not eat them.
so, to make it easy, please follow along this simple step:
1. if it contains the word 젤리틴 (gelatin), 레시틴 (lecithin) without any explanation where it comes from, we'd better avoid eating them.
However, if it has explanation like 젤라틴 (대두): it means the gelatin comes from vegetable not from animal products. (대두)or daedu means soya or soy or gelatin made from non diary products. Most of the gelatin or lecithin in Indonesia, Malaysia are derived from palm oil (so I was informed like that). It means it is halal.
once again, if the 잴라틴 and 레시틴 do not have any additional information like 대두, please avoid eating them.
Urfa, I hope my explanation above could at least help you decide. Okey? or please just search from the internet and type the entries like " makanan halal di Korea" or "daftar snack dan makanan halal dari Korea"
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