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Assalamu Alaikum, Yeah Sister Samiha that stuff is made from egg whites. We pretty much just use it like you said with peanut butter and make fluffer nutter sandwiches. My mother also makes chocolate fudge with it around Christmas time. That's the only ways I've ever eaten it.

Assalamu Alaikum, First of all I'm not a bro. And if you check the alcohol content in vanilla it is usually about 35%. In Lemon (the bottle in my mother's cabinet, non-Muslim) 84%, Banana 40%. The top ingredients are Water, alcohol, then the flavoring. When you make homemade vanilla extract...

Assalamu Alaikum, I just mentioned soy lol. It's vegetable sourced if it's from soy.

Assalamu Alaikum, Sister it's best to contact the company. There's different ways for processing milk (as in the rennet discussion). Edit: I'm not sure if milk powder and whey powder are the same. They might be. lol but whey and milk are two different things. And soy or soya lecithin is okay...

Assalamu Alaikum, Kosher and halal aren't quite the same things. There's similarities but a lot of differences too. I think that's basically why there's a debate on whether or not kosher is halal. You can probably find a bunch of information by googling. I know Wikipedia has a basic list of...

Question 1: Are you a born or a new (revert/convert) muslim? What is your country of origin/domicile/ethnicity. Did you have any formal education in Islam? I'm a white revert from the United States. Question 2(NEW muslims ONLY): What resources did you utilize prior to accepting islam that...

Assalamu Alaikum Brother, I really can sympathize. I am InshaAllah marrying a man later on next year. He is Pakistani and I am an American revert. To me, Islam matters WAY more than culture. And I find myself having to change myself for him. I think it's pretty unfair but I am trying to be...

Assalamu Alaikum, Yeah I've noticed that. All vitamins smell bad, but the vegetable based ones are horrid and the taste follows lol. I keep all of my medication in a little box and it's made a permanent stink now. lol And yes brother not all kosher things are halal. But I've found that most...

Assalamu Alaikum, Brother for me personally I would rather avoid these things. I do not find it hard or difficult to do this especially when there is so much confusion between companies and things. I think unless we can be sure that an ingredient is halal it's better to avoid it. I have...

Assalamu Alaikum, I've found some more information on rennet. http://www.gmwa.org.uk/foodguide2/index.php?page=viewquestion&id=20 It's a little long to paste. So I suppose that it is obtained after they are dead but technically isn't considered an animal part. But there's debate as to...

Assalamu Alaikum, I said those things are not specifically haram. You need to check with the company. Rennet is a natural complex of enzymes produced in any mammalian stomach to digest the mother's milk. Rennet contains a proteolytic enzyme (protease) that coagulates the milk, causing it to...

Assalamu Alaikum, I'm not sure where you live but in the U.S. some top ingredients to watch out for or look into are: mono- and diglycerides enzymes whey glycerol lactose any ingredient with the word "stearate" in it gelatin sodium casinate rennet any milk proteins vanilla obviously any meats...

Assalamu Alaikum, Sister, like 95% of gelatin is haram. Occasionally in pills it can be made from fish etc. It doesn't matter if it is "cooked out" or not. Vanilla extract is technically cooked out but made with a huge alcohol content. It doesn't matter whether it was cooked out or not it was...

Assalamu Alaikum, I'm sorry I'm fairly testy on this issue. I don't consider it imitating. Shalwar kameez and other pant suits that are absolutely Islamically acceptable do not look like men's clothes to me. There is very obviously a difference between the pants men wear and the pants women...

Assalamu Alaikum, I plan on moving to Saudi Arabia with my husband in the next five years InshaAllah. To Jeddah, Madinah, or Makkah. My husband to be is Pakistani and much like Kayote said the same things have been said by him. We plan on visiting Pakistan, but I've been told I could never...