ABSTRACT
Cereal-based products include a large number of staple food products such as bread, breakfast cereals, cakes, candies, doughnuts, cookies, pastries, and chewing gum. The processing and composition of these products vary a great deal. The major ingredients used in this group of products are flour, sugar, and shortening. Many of the trace ingredients may have halal concerns and do need to be checked. As baked products there may also be issues with pan greases and release agents. Most of the breakfast cereals are rather simple formulations containing pure grain-based ingredients mixed in with sugar, salt, and a few other minor ingredients such as colors and flavors. Some breakfast cereals may also contain gelatin-based marshmallows, which must be presumed to not be halal unless the product is certified by a reliable halal agency. The foremost requirement is that the frying oil should be vegetable oil or from a halal-slaughtered animal source.
