About Halal & Healthy
Halal & Healthy is a barcode scanner app and website that helps you check whether a food product and its additives are halal. This page says who is behind it, how the verdicts are produced, and how to reach us.
Who runs Halal & Healthy
Halal & Healthy is independently developed and operated by the small team behind the app — self-funded, with no ads, no sponsors, and no affiliation with any certification body, manufacturer or organization. The app has been in continuous development since 2020 and is available on the App Store and Google Play in ten languages.
What we do
We turn public data about food products and additives into clear, sourced answers: scan a barcode in the app, or open an additive or product page on this site, and you get a verdict — Halal, Haram, Doubtful or Unknown — together with the rule and the evidence that produced it.
Who owns the methodology
The classification rules are written, applied and maintained by the Halal & Healthy team, following OIC/SMIIC 1:2019 and OIC/SMIIC 24:2020. They are an automated classification, not a fatwa: no scholar, mufti, fiqh council or certification body has reviewed the dataset. The methodology page documents every rule, its worked examples and its limits.
Where the data comes from
Every verdict is built from public, auditable sources:
- The Open Food Facts additive taxonomy and product database — the origin signal, function classes and localized names.
- OIC/SMIIC 24:2020 — the standard whose classification rules for food additives we apply.
- The UK Food Standards Agency's authorised-additives register — authorisation status.
- Commission Regulation (EU) No 231/2012 — the additive specifications, including permitted raw materials.
The scholarly rulings our classification leans on, from Islamweb's fatwa archive:
- Islamweb fatwa 286777 — the European Council for Fatwa and Research's four-category ruling on E-additives (in Arabic)
- Islamweb fatwa 83073 — ingredients on foods with code numbers: purity and transformation principles
- Islamweb fatwa 219985 — E-numbered preservatives: verification before prohibition (in Arabic)
As of August 2026, the site publishes over 470 additive pages per language across ten languages, plus a product page for every product we have checked.
Corrections and contact
If a verdict is wrong, we want to know. Every additive page states the date its classification was last reviewed; records are revisited when the underlying data changes and when a reader reports a problem. The methodology page documents the correction log.
Reach us by email or through the feedback form inside the app: [email protected]