{"id":5995,"date":"2024-07-10T07:42:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/carmine\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T07:42:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:42:02","slug":"carmine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/carmine\/","title":{"rendered":"Carmine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>I have a query regarding an ingredient called, Carmine\/Red lake 4\/E 120\/Cl 75470 status, as to whether it is halaal or haraam.<\/p>\n<p>This constituent is extracted from a dead insect, cochineal bug.  It is present in many items containing red food coloring to makeup  brands many which bear the label &#8220;no animal ingredients&#8221;. I found out  that even many strawberry flavored products like yoghurts contained it. <br \/> Kindly, Clear the status of this ingredient so that I and the Muslims know whether to avoid it or not.<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>It  is not possible for us to declare insects haram as there is no basis  for this conclusion. It is also not obligatory to consume every living  thing after slaughtering it. Locusts are not slaughtered but consumed.  Therefore, it would not be safe to declare the use and consumption of  Carmine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2014-11-30<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"5995\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a query regarding an ingredient called, Carmine\/Red lake 4\/E 120\/Cl 75470 status, as to whether it is halaal or haraam.<\/p>\n<p>This constituent is extracted from a dead insect, cochineal bug.  It is present in many items containing red food coloring to makeup  brands many which bear the label &#8220;no animal ingredients&#8221;. I found out  that even many strawberry flavored products like yoghurts contained it. <br \/> Kindly, Clear the status of this ingredient so that I and the Muslims know whether to avoid it or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1363],"tags":[1590,1365,1588,1589],"class_list":["post-5995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dietary-directives","tag-carmine","tag-haram","tag-haram-food","tag-insect"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Carmine - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/carmine\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Carmine - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have a query regarding an ingredient called, Carmine\/Red lake 4\/E 120\/Cl 75470 status, as to whether it is halaal or haraam.This constituent is extracted from a dead insect, cochineal bug. 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