IS JELLY ALLOWED IN ISLAM?
Whenever we do shopping, especially when we are returning from abroad, we buy a jar of Jelly containing 50 or 100 pieces.This jelly is packed in conical plastic cups and are very attractive because they are made in different colors. Our children love it. Before a few years, it was not available in the market. Nowadays, it is available even in petty shops for 50 paise and one rupee. Our children are happy to spend their pocket money in buying this jelly. Our women folk buy jelly powder or granules from shops to make desserts on special occasions. Now it is common to mix this colorful jelly with our traditional china grass and make desserts to treat our relations and friends.
Do we know from what or how the jelly in cones is made? Buy Jelly powder from shops. Add food colors and flavors to this powder. Boil water and add this powder mix and sugar. Stir well. Cool the mix and fill the cones. Refrigerate the jelly filled cones for cooled dessert. Now it is ready for serving. Wait. Don’t hurry to the nearby super market or baqala to buy the powder.
Do you know from what the jelly powder is made? A few months back, I read on article in the New Indian Express –health page about jelly. Wherever possible, I spread the news how the jelly powder is made.To share my knowledge with my community, I browsed Internet and collected the following information.
The raw material for Jelly is Collagen. Collagen dried and powdered is named as gelatin. Gelatin is flavored and sold as powder. The desserts made of gelatin is Jelly. Now read carefully how the collagen is produced. The bones, hooves and horns of cattle and skin of pigs are boiled. Then the boiled materials are soaked with acid or alkalin to extract and hydrolyse the protien called Collagen. This villain becomes the hero with the name gelatin when dried and powdered. Gelatin then becomes Jelly which our children love most and we eat as dessert in our homes. This jelly causes many diseases. Ananlysing those detailsare not our concern as our primary concern is about collagen itself. Now you decide whether this colorful and attractive Monster is to be allowed in our homes!
Inform your family members, friends and relatives to avoid this jelly totally. When you come home next time do not carry this for your beloved children and family.
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There are halal gelatin available (Im not sure in India)in most of the developed countries wherein huge moslim population exists. You can see the halal marks on the pack. Also, you might wanna look for a vegan friendly gelatin that are halal. Vegan friendly gelatin are mainly a plant products.
Another important thing that I wanna to add here that gelatin additive exist not only in a 'jelly' like snacks but also in ice creams.So before consuming ice cream, it is better to check with the gelatin content. It is better made your own ice cream instead :-)
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