Are Oreo Cookies Made with Pork and Forbidden to Muslims?

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A popular internet meme apparently convinced many social media users that Oreo cookies are made with 'fat and pork milk.'

WHEAT flour, sugar, palm oil, rapeseed oil, fat reduced cocoa powder 4,3 %, WHEAT starch, glucose-fructose syrup, raising agents , salt, emulsifier , acidity regulator , flavouring.

Note that no pork ingredients of any kind are on that list. As best we could determine, none of the ingredients named above are regarded as haram to Muslims. Similar ingredients, with slight variations, are listed forAre Oreos therefore halal ? The Oreo UK website states the following: Oreo biscuits produced in Europe are not Halal certified but their composition or production process does not make them unsuitable for Muslim diet. The exceptions to this are Oreo Strawberry Cheesecake, Oreo Choc'o Brownie, Oreo Enrobed Milk & White, Oreo Cadbury Coated and Oreo Crunchy Bites Dipped.

We examined the ingredients lists of the products listed above as exceptions to the"suitable for Muslim diet" specification above, and found no pork products or byproducts listed. For the record, we also found no pork products or byproducts listed as ingredients in Oreo cookies manufactured in the U.S.by the Indian website Alt.News.

Given all the evidence above, Snopes rates the claim that Oreo biscuits contain pork and are forbidden to Muslims as"False."American Halal Foundation: Halal Food Certification USA"Fact Check: Does 'Oreo' Biscuit Contain 'Fat & Pork Milk' as Claimed in Viral Post?"

 

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It’s important to note that while this is true today, it wasn’t always the case. The filling was made with lard up until the 1990s, which is where this concern likely originates.

They used to use the hard cartridge parts of chicken feathers for the filling. That was twenty yrs ago though. There also a game played at Heinz were they bet to see if the rats can escape the tomatoes before they go in the mashers.

This is funny, given the Oreos are one junk food that VEGANS will eat.

I have a memory of Oreos containing lard and looked it up. They did until the late ‘90s. Maybe that’s the impetus for the meme?

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