Check Your Halal Food with Scan Halal

In America, several times a food trend occurs due to the country's political situation.

Call it, when the United States war with Germany, emerging liberty cabbage food, in the form of food from Germany made of cabbage that is finely sliced ​​and fermented.

There was also a time when the US was at odds with France, the snack of French fries changed its name to freedom fries.

Apparently now the condition is still repeated. When the campaign season of United States presidential election yesterday. Donald Trump, the Presidential Candidate, who is less fond of Islam, makes halal food more popular in his country.

Post-election President by Trump, there is a major change in culinary culture in the United States. Initially, the United States food market is mostly from Italian cuisine. But now, the culinary culture is turning into a halal food industry.

One of halal food manufacturers in the United States, Whole Foods Market Inc., said that halal food is the fastest growing category in the culinary industry in the United States, with sales growth reaching double digits for the last five years.

Whole Foods started producing halal food of the United States since Ramadan in 2011 (read: Ramadan in the United States). Although at first many criticized the company's move. However, it is now a promising market target.

In the United States, halal food sold is not accompanied by "halal" writing. Whereas there, most of the food is not kosher. Except in the "halal market", which sells imported halal goods from the Middle East or Asia. Although the price offered is more expensive, but it is not a problem for a Muslim. Because, when there is illegitimate food that goes into the body, other than Allah SWT forbade it and got sin, our prayers will not be granted ole Allah SWT.

So need the tips below to choose halal food in the United States:

Food Packaging Can be Checked with Application "Scan Halal"

Packaged foods and beverages become easily accessible foods in the United States. By using a smartphone application called "Halal Scan" we so know the food is haramnya or not. So we can avoid the food.

Its use is enough with a scan of the food barcode. Through this application, will immediately appear information whether this food for Muslims may be consumed, avoided, or still hesitant because there is no definite information about the content of these foods.

Scan Halal application link address as follows:
For IOS: Scan Halal Iphone

For Android: Scan Halal Android

Although not all packaged foods can be checked with Halal Scan app, but at least this application can reduce us to eat illicit food.

For example Rice Crispy snack, after checking with Halal Scan, it turns out there are pig content. In addition, Hershey MilkDuds chocolate, also contains substances haram.

Halal Scan Apps can be downloaded in the United States, and Canada, UK, France and Germany.

The following information from the Halal Scan website.

"Scan Halal provides valuable information on sources of food ingredients for consumers to make better-informed dietary choices. Scan Halal was born out of frustration with reading through all the long-worded hard to pronounce time-consuming ingredients that so many of us struggle with every day. Simply scan the barcode of the product you wish to consume and within seconds Scan Halal will breakdown the sources of ingredients (plant, animal, synthetic, etc) and display the results .. "

May be useful.