Is Apricot Cake Slice halal?

Doubtful (mushbooh)

Apricot Cake Slice 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.

Apricot Cake Slice
Apricot Cake Slice

Why is this flagged?

  • E471 — Doubtful (mushbooh)

Product facts

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

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

Additives

  • E330 — Citric acid (Halal)
  • E440 — Pectins (i) pectin (ii) amidated pectin (Halal)
  • E450 — Diphosphates (i) Disodium diphosphate (ii) Trisodium diphosphate (iii) Tetrasodium diphosphate (iv) Dipotassium diphosphate (v) Tetrapotassium diphosphate (vi) Dicalcium diphosphate (vii) Calcium dihydrogen diphosphate (Halal)
  • E471 — Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids (glyceryl monostearate, glyceryl distearate) (Doubtful (mushbooh))
  • E503 — Ammonium carbonates (i) Ammonium carbonate (ii) Ammonium bicarbonate (Ammonium hydrogen carbonate) (Halal)

Ingredients

Sugar, WHEAT flour (23%), EGGS, glucose-fructose syrup, vegetable fats (palm), concentrate rehydrated apricot juice (5%), skimmed MILK powder (2%), emulsifier mono-and diglycerides of fatty acids, flavourings, MILK proteins, salt, raisin agents: ammonium hydrogen carbonate, sodium hydrogen carbonat disodium diphosphate; acidity regulator: citric acid, WHEAT fibre, stabilize pectin.

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