Halal products are those that comply with Islamic dietary laws and are suitable for consumption by Muslims. At Sweetzone, we understand the importance of halal certification and take great care to ensure our confectionery is produced to meet strict halal requirements, giving our customers confidence in every product.
Islamic dietary laws set clear requirements for how food should be produced and prepared. These principles help ensure that halal products are made with permitted ingredients and handled in a way that maintains their halal integrity.
How We Produce HMC Halal Sweets
Every Sweetzone product is manufactured with halal requirements in mind. We carefully select ingredients, avoid prohibited substances such as non-halal gelatine and E120 (carmine), and maintain strict production standards to ensure our products remain suitable for halal consumers. Our jelly sweets, marshmallows, fruit chews, bubble gum and liquorice products are HMC certified, providing additional reassurance for our customers.
Meat from pigs
Pork is not halal. Halal food must also remain separate from pork and anything that has come into contact with it.
Blood
Muslims must not consume blood. Therefore, halal preparation requires the blood to drain from the meat completely.
Carnivores
Halal meat must never include nor come into contact with meat from carnivores or birds of prey.
Carrion
Muslims must not eat animals that were already dead before slaughter. Therefore, the halal slaughter process must cause the animal’s death.
Strangulation, beating, goring or savaging
Halal slaughter must follow a specific method and minimise suffering. Muslims must not eat animals killed through strangulation, beating, goring or attacks by other animals.
