Halal Lens Criteria

Forget It Items (If included, labeled as Forget It)

• Pork-derived ingredients (pork meat, pork fat, lard, pork bone, pork extract)
• Chicken-derived ingredients (chicken meat, chicken oil, chicken bone, chicken extract)
• Beef-derived ingredients (beef meat, beef fat, beef bone, beef extract)
• Other animal-derived ingredients (lamb, horse, wild boar, reindeer, snake, scorpion, escargot, other meats of unknown origin)
• Alcoholic beverages (alcohol, Western liquor, Japanese sake, liqueur, cooking sake, mirin, processed products presumed to contain cooking sake)
• Gelatin, bouillon, consomme (animal-derived or origin unknown)
• Margarine, shortening (animal-derived)
• Other processed products (animal-derived or gelatin-derived)
• Emulsifiers, hydrolyzed protein (animal-derived or gelatin-derived)

Be Careful Items (If included, labeled as Be Careful. Caution is needed)

• Margarine, shortening (origin unknown)
• Fermented foods
• Fermented seasonings (soy sauce, miso, doubanjiang, gochujang, fish sauce, shio-koji, etc. where alcohol addition cannot be confirmed)
• Brewed vinegar
• Vinegar-based seasonings (ketchup, ponzu soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, etc. where alcohol addition cannot be confirmed)
• Pickled foods
• Emulsifiers (fatty acid ester type or origin unknown)
• Amino acids (cysteine, L-cysteine, L-cysteine hydrochloride, etc. where animal origin is possible)
• Collagen (origin unknown)
• Hydrolyzed protein
• Bone calcium (origin unknown)
• Gelling agents (origin unknown)
• Shark

Ingredients not required to be labeled under Japanese food labeling laws and cross-contamination during manufacturing processes are not subject to judgment.