Thursday, May 31, 2007

Yamazaki Rolls (味付けロール) are Haram


The following Yamazaki Rolls (味付けロール) are not Halal (forbidden) because the margarine in not from a Halal source.
Please be careful from the margarine, it may contain fats from pig. Margarine is not always Halal.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Japanese schools

I am a mother of 3 children, i have twins two girls and one boy.
My daughters now are in a governmental Japanese primary school ,grade 2.
They received their education in kinder garden also in japan.
1-About the primary schools in japan; about my case, Japanese people depends on the activities especially ORIGAMI; some colored papers they can make some shapes from them, all the kids like ORIGAMI, Japanese people are very good in making a lot of shapes, they also teach the kids how to make them. They have also every week one subject for making a new idea, like to make a bag a doll and the children should prepare all the materials to make the idea.
2-Japanese school has a curriculum and they have Japanese language, story, math, activity, music, sports.
3-They have everyday cleaning time after lunch time; they should clean the class after eating by groups, also during the lunch time there are groups for distributing the food to children.
4-they teach them also music, they have some books and they can read by themselves.
5-the children can share in any ceremony with his effort.
6-they can prepare the child to has self-confidence .
7-in kinder garden they can make activities only, no study.

Written by sister Shahira

Thursday, May 17, 2007

All Pasco pans are Haram(forbidden)

I have bought Pasco Pan roll (超熟ロールパン) by mistake.



In the ingredients, there are no emulsifier or shortening, however there are "processed oils" in japanese "加工油". Processed oils may be haram if the source is from animal.

so, I wrote an email to Pasco to ask about the origin of the oils, but unfortunately, they said that they cannot answer my question.
this is their email:

Shortening and emulsifier are made from almost vegetable oil on products of Pasco. Generally speaking, most bakery ingredients contain some amount of those items coming from animal fat, e.g. emulsifier, shortening, etc. Besides, it is very difficult to say what items are free from animal fat. We are very sorry we can not answer you exactly which items fit your needs because most of the Japanese bakery ingredients have great opportunities to contain animal fat or even have a chance of contamination in the ingredients.

so, I searched in the website of Pasco and this is what I found here http://www.pasconet.co.jp/community/index_faq.html

加工油脂は何の油ですか。

answer
私どもの商品に使用している「加工油脂」は、大豆油、パーム油、菜種油、コーン油、魚油、豚脂などの各種食用油脂を混合したマーガリンなどの製パン用油脂です。植物性の油脂のみ使用した場合と植物性と動物性を混合している場合があります

the meaning of what is written in japanese is: " the processed oils in all Pasco Pan can contain vegetable oils and animal fats and precisely from pig and fish"
So as a conclusion, all products of Pasco are Haram(forbidden).