Is it Permissible to Eat Mono and Diglycerides in Food? Ask Shaykh YQ #213
Yasir Qadhi
Muslim Central
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🗓️ 12 August 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This audio is brought to you by MuslimCentral.com |
| 0:04.5 | Our next question brother Yunus from Vancouver emails and |
| 0:10.1 | asks about mono and die glycerides in food products mono and die glycerides and he asks whether these are permissible to eat or not |
| 0:30.0 | So mono glycerides are a form of fatty acid along with triglycerides and die glycerides and they occur naturally in some foods and are added to improve the |
| 0:54.8 | texture and the quality and even the the shelf life of other food products so sometimes they're natural and in any product where they're natural there's not a problem and sometimes they are added and mono glycerides are |
| 1:07.9 | typically a type of what they are type of fat either saturated or unsaturated and they are if they are going to be added to the food product then they are |
| 1:18.9 | extracted from plant or animal sources okay and so either plants plant oils plant seeds animal fats |
| 1:27.3 | They are extracted from them and they are added as food additives to particular products sometimes they occur naturally and |
| 1:34.8 | Usually when you purchase for example bread when you make bread |
| 1:38.6 | When the commercial manufacturers make bread or they make other things they will add mono and die |
| 1:43.6 | glycerides. What is the purpose of mono and die glycerides? |
| 1:47.4 | These substances are emulsifiers. What is an emulsifier? An emulsifier means that they stop the water and the oil from separating. They |
| 1:55.9 | Make the water and the oil make sure that they are combined together and this makes it very very useful to many processed foods |
| 2:04.0 | especially to lengthen the shelf life or to make the texture to be more edible and easy to digest and |
| 2:11.3 | The source of these as I said mono and die glycerides according to a survey done by the FDI |
| 2:20.2 | Almost 70% of the emulsifiers that are used in food products are from the mono and die glyceride family |
| 2:28.7 | therefore 30% are from other |
| 2:31.1 | families but mono and die glycerides form the bulk of emulsifiers and |
| 2:36.5 | In Europe any product from Europe |
| 2:40.1 | These emulsifiers are given the the the icon or the the symbol e471 and so in European food |
| 2:50.3 | Packages if you look at the e products e471 is what the mono and die glycerides are now |
| 2:57.0 | Where is the origin of these? |
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