Product in Question: Bounty Chocolate (UK)
Clarification of Ingredients: Milk Chocolate 36% and coconut 22%, sugar, desiccated coconut, glucose syrup (sources include wheat), milk solids, coco, butter. Coco mass, invert sugar, vegetable fat, emulsifiers (471, soy lecithin), humectant (glycerol), salt, natural flavour, vanilla extract, peanut.
Rumours: In 2007 it had animal rennet but after complaints ingredients have been changed since then.
Our Verdict: Halal as certified by HFA & Suitable for Vegetarians by the Vegetarian Society. Also by research by our own Team.
Source: Mars Consumer Care, HFA and our own research
By Shaykh Asif of Halal or Haram
Bounty halal or haram
AoA – would it be possible to find out (if the answer is not already available) where the source of ethanol is derived in the natural vanilla extract used in chocolates such as bounty, Twix, Mars etc
Does this ethanol that is used in very small quantities to extract the vanilla flavour, come from dates and grapes? If not, what is the source please? Can any one confirm.
Thanks
Naila
Ok then. The chocolate Bounties are halal, right?
What is E471 derived from and also Glycerol these 2 ingredients are questionable
Hi; this was something checked by HFA who confirmed these products (Bounty) is Halal
Isn’t the vanilla extract a haram ingredient, because of using wine and alcohol to extract it?
Isnt the vanilla extract a haram ingredient, because of using wine and alcohol in extracting it?
Isnt the vanilla extract a haram ingredient, because of using wine and alcohol in extracting it?
How about vanilla extract? Quote from your entry on vanilla extract:
Step Number 1: Read the ingredients list on the food package. If you find a vanilla extract under the ingredients statement, this means the vanilla is extracted with alcohol and alcohol containing vanilla extract is added to the products. Vanilla Extract is a Haram ingredient. Stop here, do not use the product.
So doesn’t this conflict with your verdict on Bounty as it clearly contains vanilla extract as an ingredient.
HFA in the UK have approved them and checked the process.
You are right but HFA in the UK claimed to have checked this and approved it.
We have replied.
Yes that is correct.
Hi; the Bounty version in the UK is approved by a Halal organisation which have checked this.
Wasalam; this has been approved Halal by HFA scholars in the UK.
Is it halal in every country or in only UK?
So far in the UK it is Halal