Is Peanut Butter halal?

Doubtful (mushbooh)

Peanut Butter contains doubtful (mushbooh) ingredients or additives — see why below.

Automated classification, not a religious ruling. No scholar or certification body has reviewed this assessment — always check the product's own halal certification.

Peanut Butter
Peanut Butter

Why is this flagged?

  • E471 — Doubtful (mushbooh)

Product facts

Brand Jif
Nutri-Score C
NOVA group 4
Eco-Score D
Food-safety regulator U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food safety only — not a halal authority.

Peanut Butter's ingredient and additive data is cross-referenced against Codex/INS numbering, the same system used by food-safety regulators worldwide.

Additives

  • E471 — Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids (glyceryl monostearate, glyceryl distearate) (Doubtful (mushbooh))

Ingredients

roasted peanuts and sugar, molasses, fully hydrogenated rapeseed oil, fully hydrogenated soybean oil, mono and diglycerides, salt

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