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About Muslim Consumer Group for Food Products USA/Canada and
its founder
Syed Rasheeduddin Ahmed is a Certified Food Scientist and US food industry
consultant. In 2011, he worked at Kraft Foods USA and saved about 6 million
dollars annually in the cost of ingredients for Kraft BBQ Sauces. He was
responsible for bringing 50 million dollars in annual sales for developing Big N
Crusty Bagels for Kraft USA during his 5 years work at Kraft Foods from 1986 to
He is the founder and president of Muslim Consumer Group For Food Products.
He is educating Muslims throughout the world about Halal food ingredients and
products. He has been educating Muslims in the US since 1985. He wrote eight
editions of the Halal Food Book "A comprehensive List of Halal Food Products in
US Supermarkets" since 1991, whose latest edition was published in 2009. For
these eight editions of Halal food books, he researched 31 US supermarkets from
coast to coast.
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Mr. Ahmed earned a B.Sc (Agriculture), M.Sc (Agriculture) in Horticulture from
A.P Agricultural University Hyderabad, India and a MS degree in Cereal
Technology from North Dakota State University Fargo, North Dakota.
He presented technical papers on Halal foods at the First International
Conference on Halal Food Control & Exhibition at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in Feb.
2012, at GMDES's Halal Conference in Istanbul, Turkey in September 2012. Other
presentations include KUIM in Malaysia in 2004 and at the International
Association for Food Protection Organization at Orlando, Florida in 2006.
He established the non-profit MCG organization while working for the US food
industry. He developed 18 new retail food products for supermarkets for various
food companies including 10 new products for Kraft Foods USA, 3 new products
for Nabisco, 4 new nutritional bars for MLO Products and one healthy Orchard
Fruits Nuts bar for the Starbucks coffee company. He worked for B. Heller, Prince
Macaroni, Domino's Pizza, General Foods, Kraft, Nabisco, Newly Wed Foods,
MLO Products. He has over 35 years of food industry experience including
product development, quality assurance, nutritional analysis and hands on
experience in food plants.
Mr. Ahmed can be reached at [email protected] or at 877-515-1008.
LIST OF HALAL FOOD PRODUCTS FOR HOMES AND MASAJID IN
NEW YORK CITY AREA
Apple Juice: Great Value's 100% Apple Juice Not From Concentrate, Mott's 100% Apple Juice.
Apple Sauce: Mott's Original Apple Sauce, Musselman's Original unsweetened apple sauce.
Bagels: Thomas Plain Bagels, Sara Lee Plain Bagels, Sara Lee Cinnamon & Raisin Bagels.
Bakery Snack: Mrs. Freshley's Snack Away Peanut Butter Wafers.
Baking Chocolate: Hershey Special Dark Chocolate, Baker's German Sweet Chocolate Bars.
BBQ Sauces: Kraft's Honey Barbecue Sauce, Bull's Eyed Original Barbecue Sauce.
Bars: Lasa Bar's Apple Pie The Original Fruit Bar Bakery's Whole Wheat Fig Bars
Birthday/Wedding Cake: Hot Bread Hoffman Estates, IL 847-882-8883also at Naperville, IL
Biscuits: All Indian Made Britannia Biscuits in Indian & Pakistani stores.
Bread: Sara Lee White, Sara Lee Whole wheat,, Bimbo Soft White, Soft Wheat Breads, Market
Pantry (Target) Round Top white and Sandwich wheat, Brown berry Natural Wheat, Country White.
Bread Crumb: Kellogg's Corn Flake Crumb, Kikkoman's Bread Crumb Panko.
Breadstick: Stella Doro's Original Breadstick, S. D's Sesame Breadstick, Agonoa's Garlic.
Brownie Mix:Hodgson Mill's Gluten Free Brownie Mix. Betty Crocker Walnut Premium Brownie Mix
Butter: Land O Lakes Salted Butter, Breakstone All Natural Salted Butter, Smart Balance Butter un
Buttermilk: Dean's Cultured Low Fat Buttermilk,
Cake: Sara Lee's All Butter Pound Cake Frozen
Cake MIX: Gluten Free Pantry Perfect Pie Crust Mix.
Candies: M & M Almond, York Dark Chocolate Covered Candies, Reese's Big Cup, Reese's Mini.
Cereal: General Mills Apple Cinnamon Cheerios, Cheerios, Cinnamon Chex, Kix, CinnamoToast Cr
Kellogg's Frosted Flakes, Corn Pops, Crispix, Honey Smack, Corn Flakes, Rice Krispie
Quaker's Cap N Crunch, Life Original, Post's Golden Crisp, Grape Nut, Bran Flakes cereal.
Cheese: Sorrento Mozzarella cheese, Smart Beat Fat Free Slices, Kraft's String Mozzarella Cheese
Philadelphia Regular Cream Cheese, Cabot Sharp Cheddar Cheese, Miller American
Pasteurized Process Cheese, Miller cheeses, Cheese, Cabot Sharp Cheddar
Chocolate Bars: Hershey's Hug Kisses, Kit Kat, Milk Chocolate with Almond, Mr. Good Bar
Mars's Snickers, Twix, Milky Way, Nestlé's Crunch, Dove Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars.
Coffee Creamer: Great Vale Coffee Creamer, Essential Energy Day Coffee Creamer
Cookies: Oreo Milk favorite Cookies, Cool Mint Oreo, Pepperidge Farm Chessmen, Keebler's
Fudge Sticks Jumbo Peanut Butter, Pecan Shortbread, Nabisco Nutter Butter Peanut But
Evaporated Milk: Carnation Evaporated Milk Fat Free, Pet's Evaporated Milk Fat Free.
Ice Cream: Breyer's Strawberry, Eddy's Grand Chocolate. Hagen Daz Strawberry Ice Cream
Jelling: Ahmed's All Jelling Products at Indian and Pakistani stores.
Macaroni & Cheese Dinner: Brand Wacky Mac and Foulds are two Halal brands.
Margarine: Imperial 39% Vegetable Oil Spread, Country Crock 39% Vegetable Oil Spread.
Mayonnaise: Kraft's Miracle Whip, Mayo, Hellmann's Real mayonnaise, Heinz Real Mayonnaise.
Milk: All brand of milk and all type milk are Halal except few Lactose Free Milk
Oatmeal: Quaker Instant Original, Raisin Date Walnut, Cinnamon & Spice, Market Pantry Regular.
Pasta Sauce: Barilla Mushroom & Garlic, Classico Fire Roasted Tomato & Garlic, BertolliOlive/Gar.
Potato Chips: Lay Classic, Jay's Crispy Ridged, Pringle Original, Doritos Toasted Corn Tortilla Ch
Ricotta Cheese: Frigo Whole or Part Skim Milk, Sorrento whole Milk, Great Value Original Ricotta.
Sour Cream: Dean Cultured, Kraft Sour Cream, Daisy all Sour Cream
Soft Drink: Regular Pepsi and regular Diet Pepsi.
Whipping Cream: Great Value Whipping Cream, Dean Whipping Cream, Lucerne Whipping Cream.
Yogurt: Dannon Low Fat Plain, Non Fat Plain, Chobani Greek Honey, Low Fat, Non Fat Plain.

LIST OF NOT HALAL OR MUSHBOOH OR HARAM FOOD PRODUCTS

Apple Juice: Great Value Light Apple Juice Cocktail 96 Oz, R. W. Knudge Organic Apple Juice
Bakery Snack: Little Debbie's Chocolate Chip Muffins, Little Muffins, Cosmic Brownies, C. Cakes.
Baking Chocolate: Baker's Semisweet Baking Chocolate Square.
BBQ Sauce: Jack Daniels All BBQ Sauces, Bull Eye Carolina Sauce, KC Masterpiece Kansas city.
Bread: Great value (Wal-Mart) All bread.
Bread Crumb: Contadina, Vigo, Progresso(except Panko), Racconto, Gia Russa Bread Crumbs.
Brownies: Weight Watcher's Chocolate Brownies.
Butter: Deerfield's Unsalted Butter.
Cake Mixes: Betty Crocker Super Moist Part Rainbow Cake Mix, Jiffy All Mixes, Pillsbury Spring.
Candies: Hershey's All Ice breaker, All Jolly Ranchers, All Jelly Belly, Wrigley All Star Bust Candi.
Cereal: Post's Alphabet, Blue Morning, Cocoa Pebbles, Fruity Pebbles, All Honey Bunches of
Oats, Kellogg's Muesli, Krave, All Frosted Mini Wheat, General Mills Lucky Charm, Kashi Berry.
Cereal Bars: All Kashi, All Quaker, Kellogg Fruit Crisp Strawberry, General Mills Golden Graham T.
Cheese: All land O Lakes, Kraft Singles, Borden Singles, Cabot All Shredded Cheese.
Cheese Snack: Cheez It Cheddar Jack Cheese Snack.
Chewing Gums: All Wrigley Chewing Gums.
Chocolate Bars: Nestle Butterfingers, Baby Ruth, Hershey Whoppers, All Godiva, Ghirardelli.
Coffee Creamer: Coffee Mate Creamer both liquid and dry. Alcohol is used in flavor.
Cookies: All Quaker, All LU, All Gamesa, All Royal Dansk cookies.
Evaporated Milk: Carnation Evaporated Milk, Pet Evaporated Milk, Eagle Evaporated Milk.
Frozen Cakes: Sara Lee Banana Cake, Pepperidge Farms all cakes.
Frozen Cheese Pizza: Celeste, Totinos, DiGiorno, Freschetta's, Tony's.
Gelatin: Jell-O Gelatin Desserts, Gelatin Snacks: Jell-o Gelatin is Haram made with pork gelatin.
Ice Cream: All Vanilla Ice Cream, All Flavored Ice Cream, Land O Lakes, Blue Bunny.
Kefir: All Kefir contains 2-3% Alcohol.
Macaroni & Cheese Dinner: Kraft, Betty Crocker.
Margarine: Promise Active Buttery, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter Light & Fat Free, Land O lakes.
Mayonnaise: Miracle Whip Fat free, Miracle Whip Sweet Dijon, McCormick, Kraft Sandwich Shops.
Oatmeal: Seneca Farms Oatmeal Vanilla Peach.
Potato Chips or Snacks: All Cheetos, All Doritos except Toasted Tortilla Chips, Ruffles or Lays
Cheddar & Sour Cream.
Soft Drink: Coke, Seven UP, all vanilla soft drink, Dr. Pepper, Diet Rite, Squirt, Crush, Sunkist,
Schweppes Ginger Ale. Alcohol found or is used in natural flavor.
Yogurt: Dannon's Activia, Dan-O-Nine, Fusion, Danactiva, Smoothies, Danimals, Yoplait, Fage.

NON FOOD PRODUCTS IN NEW YORK CITY AREA
Non Food Product Ingredients:
1. FD&C yellow No. 5 or FD&C red No. 40 colors:
FD&C yellow No. 5 or FD&C red No. 40 are chemical dyes and they are Halal if
used in pure granular or powder form but if the FD&C colors are required to make
it in liquid form then a Halal solvent is needed to make liquid FD&C colors.

2. What are Cetyl Alcohol, Stearyl Alcohol, Butyl Alcohol, Lauryl and Oleyl
Alcohol used in Personal Care Products.

All above alcohol are not Ethyl Alcohol but they are fatty alcohol or fatty waxes
made from either animal fat such as pork fat or vegetable fat such as soy fat. Only
manufacturer will know the source of these ingredients. If any personal
care company says that no animal derived ingredients are used in their
products containing above alcohols it means they are obtained from vegetable
fat.

3. Glycerin:
Glycerin is a fat based ingredients used in foods and non food products. Since it
is a fat based ingredient so it is either obtained from animal fat such as pork or
beef or it is obtained from vegetable fat. Only vegetable fat based Glycerin is
Halal.

4. Sodium Tallowate:
Sodium Tallowate is made of Caustic Soda and animal fat from cattle.
5. Fragrance:
Fragrance is mostly made natural or artificial fragrance material and alcohol.
6. Sodium Lauryl Sulfate:
Sodium Lauryl Sulfate is an organic compound used in cleaning and hygiene
products. It contains lauryl alcohol (not real alcohol) which is obtained from fat
source. It is Halal only if obtained from coconut fat.

List of Non Food Products
Personal Care Products

1. Antiperspirant & Deodorant: Right Guard Sport Fresh, Colgate all Lady Speed
Sticks except Smooth Perfection.
2. Baby Wipes: Huggies Baby Wipes
3. Bar Soaps: Whole Food Markets 365 Unscented Bar Soap, it is available only at
Whole Food Markets, Lava Bar, Irish Spring made only with Non Zabiha Beef fat
approved by a Mufti Saheb from Chicago Sharia Board, Kirkland Signature Bath &
body soap, Colgate Palmolive Murphy Oil Soap, Kirk Castile Soap. Softsoap
Coconut Scrubber Bar Soap.
4. Bath Tissue: Charmin Bath Tissue.
5. Body Lotion: AVEENO® POSITIVELY NOURISHING® Energizing Body Lotion.
6. Body Wash: Irish Spring Original Body Wash.
7. Hand Soap: All Dial hand soaps
8. Moisturizer: LUBRIDERM® Daily Moisture Lotion, Fragrance Free- NO animal
products /by-products
9. Mouthwash: Colgate Optic White Alcohol Free Mouthwash
10. Paper Products: Paper Products: Foam cups by Win cups company with "W"
sign at bottom of the cup available at Costco and Sam Club only, SOLO cups,
Essential Every Day Casual Foam Cups with "GenePak" at bottom. Great
Value/Hefty/Dixie Papers Plates and Bowles with U circle.
11. Paper Towel: Bounty, Scott Paper Towel.
12. Petroleum Jelly: Vaseline Cocoa Butter 100% Petroleum Jelly
13. Shampoo: Perll Classic, Gentle Care Shampoos, White Rain Shampoo
14. Tooth Brush: All Tooth Brush
15. Toothpaste: All Colgate Toothpaste Except Max Fresh Beat
16. Toothpaste: All Crest Toothpaste, Sensydent
Medicine
Allergy: Benadryl Children Allergy Liquid Cherry Flavor, Alert Adult and Children
Zyrtec Adult and Children
Antacid: Pepto Bismol, Maalox, Alka Seltzer
Chest Congestion: Mucinex
Cold & Cough: Sudafed PE Caplets, Vicks
Cold & Flue: Zican
Cold & Cough Medicine: Triaminic
Cough & Sore Throat: Sucrets
Cough Medicine: Robitussin DM, DM Max
Diarrhea Medicine: Immodium
Muscle Pain: Bengay
Pain Reliever: Aleve only Tablets and Caplets

List of Non Halal Food Products
NOT HALAL
Personal Care Products

1. Bar Soap: MADE WITH PORK FAT NO GUARANTEE OF PORK FAT FREE
Camay, Dial, Caress, Lux, Olay, Tone, Lever 2000, Jergens, Ivory, Zest, Safe
Guard, Dove
2. Body Wash: Softsoap Shea Butter & Almond Oil Body Wash, All AXE body
washes, Old Spice Body wash
Dial Body wash, Tone body wash, Suave Creamy Milk and all other body washes
3. Moisturizer: Old Spice
4. Mouthwash: Equate Antiseptic Mouthwash
5. Paper Products: All Dart Foam Cups (pork/beef fat based lubricant is used on
molds to release cups), Wal-Mart Great Value Foam Cups with Dart name on the
bottom of the cups. All Paper Plates and Bowls without U under the circle
symbol.
6. Shampoo & Conditioners: Herbal Essence Shampoo & Conditioners, Aussie,
Equate, Head & Shoulder, Selsum Blue, Vidal Sassoo.
7. Toothpaste: Colgate Max Fresh Beat Toothpaste.
Medicine
Allergy: Claritin's Red Tab, Benadryl Ultratab Tablet
Antacid: Zantac 75 and Zantac 150, Rolaids, Alka Seltzer Liquid Gel
Cold: Theraflu Warming Relief Day Time Multi-symptom Cold Caplet
Cold & Flue: Contact Maximum Strength
Cough Medicine: Delsym Adult & Children Cough Syrup
Sore throat Medicine: Equate (Wal-Mart Brand) Sore Throat Medicine
Pain Reliever: Advil Migrant Soft Gel

Source: http://masjidnoorli.org/web/sites/default/files/HalalFoodsLecutureHandouts.pdf

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