Food consumed by Muslims and also meets the Islamic dietary code is termed halal food. The Muslim community largely uses two main terms to describe food, halal and haram. Halal food means permitted or lawful, and haram means forbidden or unlawful.
Although both Islamic and Jewish customs allow individuals to have a religiously disputed product such as a medicine under compulsion, even then people generally avoid consciously taking anything that is faithfully doubtful. Gelatin capsules that are given through prescriptions are potentially prohibited unless certified kosher, halal, or labelled bovine. This is because these are generally made of pork gelatine.
Halal food cooking also encourages people to eat food that is good for them. Purity and cleanliness are widely encouraged in Islam, which includes physical as well as mental purity. The food that is consumed is also required to be pure and clean.
Finding halal foods in non Muslim countries is not as hard as it used to be a good twenty years ago. Many large supermarkets carry frozen items marked with the regulatory "halal" certification. You can find imported pies, nuggets, and even salami. There are even local butchers in areas with large Muslim populations which carry "halal" certification, and can provide almost all halal products.
The number of halal food supplements available to consumers through specialty stores, supermarkets and especially through multi-level marketing has seen tremendous growth worldwide.
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