Consuming fermented health drinks
Q: Is kombucha and kefir halal? These are fermented health drinks that have minimal alcohol content.
Halaal Food & Drinks
Drinking ginger beer
Q: I would like to know if ginger beer made from sugar, ginger, yeast, lemon juice and water is halaal. The drink itself isn't for intoxication and it doesn't intoxicate. Is it halaal?
Is vanilla haraam?
Q: Is Vanilla haram?
Drinking fermented honey
Q:
1. A person had raw honey that began bubbling and smelling fermented. Can it be used? Because I read that people make a drink from it.
2. A drink called 'mead' is made from this fermented honey. Would this be permissible?
Consuming zebra meat
Q: Can we consume zebra meat?
Washing dirt of chickens
Q: There are some black things like dots on chicken meat when it comes from the market. If I wash the chicken thoroughly then the black thing like dots are removed, otherwise not. Is it necessary to wash out those black dots?
Also please guide how much a chicken should be washed?
Red wine vinegar
Q: Is red wine vinegar permissible?
Red wine vinegar
Q: Is red wine vinegar permissible?
Mice droppings on food
Q: My wife made rotis yesterday and placed them in a container. When they were cool she covered them. We had rotis for supper last night. After esha, when I was in the kitchen, I saw a mouse eating from a wrapped left-over sandwich. Later, I put the roti container in the fridge. After fijar, my wife took out the roti container from the fridge. She saw mice droppings or "stools" on the side of rotis in the container.
1. What do we do with the rotis?
2. What do we do if we have a mice problem?
Rennet
Q: Could you please send me the details of the shar'ee ruling on cheese, as most of them contain animal rennet.