Zahra Magdy
"Dokha .. Dukha .. Drowning," described these three words adventure generations when eating Oreo biscuits and white licking, but in two other words turned into a conspiracy plot.
🚨🚨OREO Cookies are not halal! |
"Oreo is not halal, thank you for your message," according to a tweet attributed to Orio on Twitter on May 11, 2019.
Since 1912, the world has consumed more than 500 billion pieces of Oreo biscuits, so Muslims have awakened a brief chant on Oreo's official account on Twitter, saying their products do not fit Islamic law, and are not halal.
It is the twinkle that has caused confusion among Muslim consumers, and interacted with the twitter a thousand times: Are you sure? Do you use pig fat? Do you mean that you did not get a certificate proving that your gelatin products are free?
The company quickly deleted its responsibilities and confirmed that the information was registered on its official website for Oreo, based in Canada and the United States, but after thousands were circulated on Twitter.
| Oryo official website: Our product is not Halal (social networking sites) |
Indeed, on Oryo's official website, the administration responded to questions from the public about its products, such as containing Oreo on milk, gelatin, soya and nuts. The question was: Is Oryo a halal product? The answer was no.
Your location on the world map solves the problem
The first thing that comes to the Muslim mind is the gelatin extracted from the pig. For years, many people have thought that Oreo biscuits are suitable for vegetarians but it is not halal because the vanilla extract contains a very small amount of alcohol that evaporates during heating. Some reject this, while others accept it, In the end, it is about taking it at your own risk.
"Every Muslim thinks how many times he has eaten Oreo biscuits, but after the panic of the company, the company's distributor told Gulf News that Oreo was sold in the UAE and that it was aimed at the company's customers in America and Canada, Misleading by not explaining the different product components by geographic region, adding that Oreo products are compliant with local laws and regulations of each country throughout the GCC in which they are distributed.
"We assure you that all of our products are Halal and comply with the local laws and regulations in your area. We seek to provide our customers with the best quality of the product. We will elaborate more to provide you with clear information about our ingredients and their suitability for your food systems."
According to the Dubai Food Safety Department, all imported Oreo shipments are checked, with documents checked each time by the port inspectors to ensure their safety. In addition, samples of the product are periodically inspected at the Dubai Central Laboratory to ensure that they are free from animal and alcohol derivatives.
Further research revealed that the product, which is distributed at least in the Arab region, is manufactured at the company's factories in Dammam, eastern Saudi Arabia, at Nabisco Arabia Co. Ltd.
What are the three layers?
| Components of Oreo Arbakt Muslim (social networking sites) |
According to the information on the company's website, the details may be somewhat complicated, but Oreo is suitable for vegetarians who eat milk, but it is not appropriate for those who abstain from dairy products because of the milk in its components. The product also contains gelatin, but it is extracted from wheat and not pig fat.
However, you will not find milk in the list of ingredients on the Oreo cover, because it can contain it, because it only "touches" or is used in a microscopic quantity, according to the company's description, either a very small amount of milk has touched the ingredients, Used for making.
According to the official website, Oreo is made from: wheat flour, sugar, vegetable oil (palm), 4.6% diluted cocoa powder, wheat starch, glucose syrup, fructose, salt, potassium hydrogen carbonate, sodium hydrogen carbonate , Vanilla flavor.
It carries a little risk
Although the company's Web site, the FDA's original recipe for Oryo does not contain milk, the parent company, Nabisco, has often sought to replace the word milk or milk with a generous word to describe the white stuffing. But amid this great overlap, Nabisco caused consumers to doubt it before 2014 when it turned out to be using pig fat in the white cream filler industry, replacing it with the ingredients it had recorded since 1997 as vegetable oil, to include Orio as a plant product.
The company's order was revealed when an American squadron shot Oreo's recipe for a Chinese company for $ 28 million to be sentenced to 15 years in prison. However, it was found in the recipe that white and cream were due to harmful food additives, including titanium dioxide, which could cause damage. Great for tissues and liver, but there is no definite evidence of the presence of these additives except from the recipe swarm.
Oreo products are available in markets around 100 countries around the world and have recently become the most popular snacks among people, causing the crisis to escalate rapidly. To end the confusion caused by the first twinkle, if you eat Oreo in an Islamic country you are safe, but if you are a Muslim living in a non-Muslim country you need to be careful.