Food & Drink

Questions about food are questions about labels, kitchens and travel. Readers ask what an additive is made from, how meat is slaughtered, and what to do when eating away from home. The pages below cover slaughter and meat, ingredients and additives, halal and haram foods, doubtful foods, and the etiquette of eating. Every answer here is a sourced summary of a fatwa. Where a question turns on one detail, like an ingredient or a method, the answer carries it.