What are kosher products? What is kosher food? Animals that cannot be eaten
The definition of “kosher” comes from the name of the set of Jewish religious rules “kashrut”, most often associated with food. Kashrut clearly regulates the foods that a true Jew can eat.
Kosher meat
Only the meat of animals that are both ruminants and artiodactyls is considered kosher. The absence of one of these signs makes the meat unfit for food. That is why the Jews do not eat hare. But Jews can eat beef and lamb in unlimited quantities. Even the meat of artiodactyls and herbivores is allowed by kashrut to eat.
But the fact that meat belongs to one or another type of animal does not in itself serve as a sign of its kosher. There is a whole set of rules for kosher slaughter of animals - shechita. This is a whole science. An animal slaughterer, a shoikhet, has been studying his bloody craft for about a year and even passes an exam. Indeed, in order for the meat of an animal to be recognized as kosher, it must be killed with one movement of a sharply sharpened knife, without causing even the smallest lacerations or punctures. Otherwise, the meat is considered non-kosher and is not allowed to be eaten by Jews.
The Torah also strictly prohibits the consumption of blood. Therefore, the skinned animal carcass is subjected to a thorough examination for the presence of blood on it. And even after this procedure, the meat is still thoroughly soaked in water.
Kosher poultry, fish and other products
The two main signs of kosher fish are easily detachable scales and fins. Therefore, all fish, with the exception of catfish, sturgeon, eel and, are kosher. And even black sturgeon caviar is not recognized as such due to its own fault.
Most birds are also kosher. The only exceptions are predators. Absolutely all poultry is suitable for food for the Jews.
As for dairy products, they themselves are all kosher. But kashrut prescribes their consumption separately from meat. After eating them, from one to six hours must pass (the period varies in different Jewish communities) before you can start a dairy meal. The time interval between eating meat after dairy products is much lower and is only half an hour. Failure to comply with these rules makes both meat and dairy products non-kosher.
The same set of rules categorically does not recognize the kosher nature of the meat of reptiles and amphibians.
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There are a total of 365 prohibitions that affect all aspects of Jewish life, and more than half of these prohibitions relate to food. Kashrut, kosher in Yiddish, is a set of laws that regulate the diet of the Jewish people. Kosher is translated as “suitable”, “suitable”.
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Basic principles of kosher nutrition
Kosher food produced from kosher products, in a strictly defined way and only by Jews. The definition of “kosher” food is described in the Torah. All products that do not comply with the concept of “kosher” are prohibited and harmful to human bodily health.
Another important aspect indicated in Kashrut is hygiene. Products must not contain harmful substances , animals must be healthy, dairy and meat products must not only be stored separately, but also consumed separately.
, corresponding to the Torah description:
- Meat– beef, lamb, goat meat, venison, elk meat, etc. You can eat the meat of those animals that are artiodactyls and ruminants. Rodents (hares, rabbits, etc.) are not kosher. Animals must be slaughtered in a special way. It is carried out only by a shoykhet (slaughterer) - a specially trained person. To remove all the blood from the meat, it is soaked in water and sprinkled with salt, which absorbs the last drops of blood.
- Bird– chickens, ducks, geese, quail, pigeons and turkey meat.
It is forbidden to eat the meat of birds of prey and scavengers.
- Eggs Only kosher birds are considered kosher. If both ends of the egg are the same shape (both pointed or round) they are not kosher.
- Fish- only the one that contains scales and fins. Red caviar is considered kosher, but black caviar is not included in this list. Eel, catfish, shark, sturgeon are not considered kosher - just like shellfish and crustaceans.
- Milk- only from kosher animals. Another important aspect: according to the Torah, different utensils (even different stoves) are used for cooking meat and dairy products, meat and dairy products are stored separately (in different refrigerators) and milk after meat can only be consumed after 6 hours.
- Insects. Only four types of desert locusts are allowed to be eaten. Other insects are prohibited. Only honey, a waste product of bees, is an exception and is considered kosher. It is precisely because of the ban on all types of insects that housewives check cereals, herbs and vegetables very carefully.
- In a relationship alcohol The instructions of the Torah are very strict: wine is made only by Jews, grapes are collected at a certain time in vineyards at least 4 years old, outsiders should not see the production process - only such wine is considered kosher.
Remember, kosher eating is not a new fad diet or cooking trend. True kosher nutrition is full compliance with religious canons, not only in food, but also in the spiritual world.
Is kosher nutrition healthy?
Now products with the distinctive kosher mark have begun to appear in stores.
It cannot be said with confidence that a kosher diet is completely balanced and healthy. But the fact that kosher products are healthier and safer is an irrefutable fact.
These products do not contain dyes, stabilizers, synthetic additives, GMOs, drugs, and are processed and packaged in a sterile environment, and these are the main indicators of quality and usefulness for the human body.
That is why today representatives of other religious faiths have often begun to choose kosher products.
The reason for writing this article was the surprise caused by the warning announcement posted on the doors of one of the capital's Orthodox churches. On a standard sheet of A-4 format, the temple clergy strictly threatened with excommunication from the Church of everyone who would buy and eat kosher products:
“Dear brothers and sisters! Products with the kosher mark have appeared in our stores, and we know that kosher products are products blessed by rabbis with the blood of sacrificial animals...” This was followed by references to the rules of the holy fathers “On eating food sacrificed to idols,” according to which those who tasted it were excommunicated from the Church for a period of 4 to 6 years.
Probably the first feeling that arises in the average person after reading this appeal is confusion and even fear. A more knowledgeable person has indignation and indignation: again, through deception, one might say “on the sly,” they want to separate us Orthodox, through defilement from eating “kosher products,” from Christ! And indeed, if everything written in the leaflet were true, the instinctive anger of an Orthodox person would be justified. But the trouble is that everything connected with heterodoxy, and especially with Judaism, is little known to the majority of our population. And if there is some basic knowledge, it often does not correspond to reality due to the dubiousness of the sources from which it was obtained (V.V. Rozanov, L.I. Tikhomirov, V.I. Dal, etc.), coming into conflict with many factual provisions of Judaism.
To comment on the surprise that accompanied the author of this article when reading the above announcement, we need to enlist the patience and attention of our dear reader, because To reveal the topic raised, some immersion in the history of the Jewish people and its tradition is necessary.
Rabbinical Institute. Can rabbis officiate?
Let's start with the rabbis. First of all, it must be emphasized that a rabbi in the Jewish tradition is not a priest in our Christian understanding, who is authorized to officiate, i.e. perform the Sacraments. Rabbi is a title awarded to a Jew upon receipt of higher Jewish religious education. It gives the right to lead a congregation or community, teach in a yeshiva (a religious educational institution for young men) and be a member of a religious court.
At the time of Christ the Savior, a rabbi was an interpreter of the Holy Scriptures, a religious teacher, and almost always he earned his living by some other work.
The formation of the institution of rabbis took place in the Middle Ages and was associated with the decline of the Babylonian gaonate and exilarchate - the central institutions of the Jewish Diaspora, which appointed rabbis to local communities. From the end of the 10th century, communities became more independent and elected their own spiritual leader. A rabbi could become a scientist, a highly moral, authoritative person with the wisdom of a judge, the ability to manage public affairs and the spiritual life of the community.
We emphasize: the duties of the rabbis did not include the functions of a clergyman; he was not supposed to lead synagogue services, bless members of the congregation, etc. Only later did rabbis begin to perform marriages and divorces, and only because these ceremonies required a thorough knowledge of religious law and legal procedure.
The Jerusalem Temple (10th century BC - 70 AD) is the only place of sacrifice of the Old Testament Church.
As for sacrificial animals, whose blood is supposedly sprinkled on kosher products, there is a distortion of reality and elementary ignorance in relation to such an “exact subject” (a term proposed by church historian V.V. Bolotov) as history.
The 70th year after the Nativity of Christ went down in the history of the Holy Land not only as the year of the suppression by the Romans of the four-year Jewish uprising (the year of the complete pacification of Judea is the 73rd year), but also as the year of the destruction of Jerusalem and its main shrine - the Jerusalem Temple. The suppression of the uprising was entrusted by Emperor Vespasian to his son Titus. The seriousness of the war between Rome and Judea is evidenced by the fact that Vespasian left Titus three legions (1 legion numbered 6,000 soldiers), to which Titus himself added three more, from Syria and Egypt, and also called troops from the kingdoms subordinate to Rome, in particular from Emesa . The total number of soldiers was approaching 40,000.
In February 70, Titus' army besieged Jerusalem. The siege lasted almost six months and on August 28, before the final assault on the city, Titus, according to the Jewish historian Josephus, gave the order not to destroy the Temple of Jerusalem, since in the future it would “serve as an adornment of the Empire.” But war is war: the despair and rage with which the Jews fought disrupted all the strategic plans of the Romans and the situation got out of control... The Temple perished.
It must be said that for the Jews, the Jerusalem Temple was not just a religious building - it was the only place of permanent presence of the Creator Himself. In addition to the Jerusalem Temple, in almost every settlement of the Holy Land there were synagogues (places for the study and interpretation of Scripture), but they could not replace the Temple and Temple worship, which is inextricably linked with sacrifices.
Every Jew, for a variety of reasons in life (harvest, birth of children, death of loved ones, etc.) had to come to the Temple and make a sacrifice. But the year 1970 changed a lot. Along with the destruction of the Temple, the entire system of sacrifices, which had spanned more than one century, was also destroyed. And the very institution of priests (koganim), who performed the ritual, lost its meaning without the Temple.
To this day, there are no priests in Judaism, just as there are no blood sacrifices - there is no one, and there is nowhere to make them (since the 7th century, on the site of the Temple of Jerusalem there is the third most important shrine of the Islamic world, the Mosque of the Rock or the Mosque of Omar). Nevertheless, Jewish communities still treat bearers of priestly surnames with reverence, as representatives of the spiritual aristocracy. As a rule, most Jews with the surname Kogan, Rappoport, Katz are descendants of ancient priests and therefore cannot remarry or marry widows.
Attitude to blood in the Jewish tradition
A few words about the attitude of the Jews to blood. In Jewish tradition, blood is the material shell of the animal’s soul. Blood carries “nefesh” - vital energy, the “animal soul”, which contains all the substances necessary for the functioning of the body and delivers them to all organs of the body. It fills and permeates the entire organism, which is built from its elements and depends on its composition. And while the animal is alive, “nefesh” - life energy - is in its blood, and vice versa - the animal’s blood is in its soul. In other words, it is not the animal’s soul that is dissolved in its blood, but on the contrary, the blood is, as it were, “absorbed” by the soul.
This is precisely what explains the ban in Jewish tradition on eating any food containing animal blood. So, if a religious Jew decides to cook scrambled eggs and, when breaking a chicken egg, finds blood among the white and yolk, he must immediately throw away this egg and replace it with another. What can we say about those ridiculous speculations that provoked mass pogroms at the beginning of the twentieth century, in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, etc., according to which Jews allegedly added the blood of Christian babies to their Passover matzo?!
The year 1913 was marked by a very noisy trial that took place in Kyiv. It went down in the history of Russian jurisprudence as the “Beilis Case”. 39-year-old Mendel Beilis was accused of the ritual murder of 13-year-old Andrei Yushchinsky, and the Catholic priest Justin Pranaitis acted as an expert for the accusing party. Our Orthodox priest Alexander Glagolev, a professor at the Department of Hebrew Language and Biblical Archeology at the Kyiv Theological Academy, managed to reveal the absurdity and falsification of this case. Father Alexander, an excellent expert on the Holy Scriptures and Old Testament legislation, proved to the jury that it was impossible for Jews to perform ritual sacrifices after the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, as well as the inadmissibility of consuming blood not only for food, but also for any other purposes in general.
So, the statement of the above announcement that rabbis sanctify kosher food with the blood of sacrificial animals is complete ignorance and absurdity!!!
What is “kosher food”?
A large number of products from countries with which Ukraine maintains trade relations have indeed appeared in our stores. Among these countries is the Middle Eastern state of Israel, whose products are so widely represented in our stores today. This includes baby food, citrus fruits, juices, herbs and much more. As a rule, products from Israeli manufacturers are marked with a kosher mark. Although not only the Israeli manufacturer puts the kosher mark on its products, many Western European manufacturers also indicate on their packaging that their products do not contradict the rules of kosher. Moreover, today many Ukrainian manufacturers place the kosher logo along with the quality mark of their products.
What is kosher food? How should we feel about her? Are foods marked kosher? Here are a number of questions that concern many Orthodox Christians. Let's try to answer them.
Etymologically, the word "kosher" is not related to food; in Hebrew it literally translates as "suitable." This term can be used in relation to the correct behavior of a person: “This is a kosher person” and used when speaking about something positive: “This is a kosher book,” etc.
Currently, the word “kasher” or “kosher” (originally a variant with the vowel “o” appeared in the English language due to the peculiarities of the pronunciation of Ashkenazi Jews, and then migrated to the Russian language) is more often used in relation to food. The only criterion for the suitability of food for food is not considerations of hygiene, but how the Holy Scriptures (the Pentateuch of Moses) relate to this food. That is, the usual meaning of the word “kosher” is “food allowed to be eaten.”
The laws of kashrut state that Jews are forbidden to eat anything, and even permitted food must be prepared properly.
For example, the only animals permitted by the Holy Scriptures are artiodactyls and ruminants. The most common of them are cows and sheep, but even they can only be slaughtered by a specialist - a shoykhet (butcher).
According to kashrut laws, the meat of animals killed during hunting is prohibited. The ban on hunting (which is several thousand years old in Jewish tradition) has led to the fact that even among non-religious Jews there are few hunters today.
As mentioned above, in the body of the books of the Holy Scriptures of the Old Testament there are many places prohibiting the consumption of animal blood (;). Therefore, during slaughter, according to the rules of kashrut, the blood is drained and covered with earth, and the meat is salted and soaked until all the blood is removed.
Among fish, only those species that have fins and scales (; ) are considered kosher. This is not motivated by anything.
All shellfish are prohibited, including today's popular shrimp and lobsters.
Among the birds allowed, only chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese and some others are allowed.
As a rule, all permitted animals are herbivores. Birds eating other birds are prohibited along with all predatory animals.
Since we do not have the goal of describing the entire severity of food regulations in the Jewish tradition, we will limit ourselves to the above.
From the above, we can conclude that whenever you pick up a package marked mashgiach (an expert who guarantees that a product complies with the rules of kashrut), you should know that this particular product fully complies with the dietary requirements of the Bible. And no mystical actions were performed on the product!
If this is a bunch of greens in a package (onions, basil, parsley, etc.), then the mashgiach checked these greens for the presence of insects - there are none there.
If this is a package of flour, it means that the flour has been sifted under the supervision of a mashgiach through a sieve, where there should be at least 70 holes per 1 cm2 (the expert must check the number of holes with the tip of a needle), in order to avoid bugs and other insects getting into food, because eating insects prohibited by the Bible!
If a dairy product is labeled kosher, it means that the product has not come into contact with animal fats and was prepared in sterile containers.
The kosher mark is a statement and guarantee that a product has been prepared and packaged in a sterile environment and in accordance with the ancient rules of the Bible regarding “clean” food.
How should a Christian treat kosher foods?
Whenever the next group of our Orthodox pilgrims goes to the Holy Land to worship places associated with the earthly life of our Savior, few of the pilgrims think about what they are treated to and fed during the pilgrimage. A meal in a monastery or an ordinary breakfast in a hotel, here in Israel kosher products are present everywhere. Yes, there are simply no other products in Israeli stores, and if there are, they are sold in non-kosher stores that are not so easy to find. And Orthodox Christians living in the Holy Land do not even pay attention to whether this or that product is kosher or not, primarily because this sign is addressed to those who keep kosher. And for people who are not religious Jews, this is only a guarantee that the product was prepared in an atmosphere of high sterility.
We, Orthodox Christians of the 21st century, should more often turn to the experience of the early Christian communities (and their life, especially in the Middle East and Asia Minor, was very closely intertwined with their pagan and Jewish neighbors), for which the words of the Savior: “Not what is included in the mouth defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth” () were the main criterion for maintaining holiness and inner purity.
And wariness and suspicion towards food was observed two thousand years ago. This is what prompted the holy Apostle Paul to turn his word of edification and consolation to the inhabitants of ancient Corinth - the economic metropolis of the ancient world, famous for its shops, markets and bazaars: “Everything that is sold at auction, eat without any research, for peace of conscience” (). We must hear these words of pastoral care in our troubled age.
In conclusion, it should be noted that kosher products are not sacrificed to idols. I would like to refer thinking and reading faithful children of our Church to the book by MDA professor Protodeacon Andrei Kuraev “Why are the Orthodox like this?” (M. 2008), in this work there is a wonderful article “Does “planted” sewage harm a Christian?”, where the author makes a detailed and reasoned analysis of the correspondence of food to the name sacrificed to idols, and the attitude of a Christian towards it according to the teachings of the Apostle Paul and the patristic heritage.
“Food does not bring us closer to God: for whether we eat, we gain nothing; If we don’t eat, we don’t lose anything” () - this admonition of the Apostle Paul is not always understood by our Orthodox contemporaries. And as a result, all sorts of misunderstandings and religious prejudices appear that interfere with really living according to the Gospel and patristic teaching.
God grant that nothing in life could overshadow Golgotha, the Savior’s Death on the Cross and His Glorious Resurrection - this is what we should strive for first of all. And the words of the Apostle “For the pure all things are pure” () should help us so that around us, thanks to our spiritual and moral purity, we promptly detect and expose the real fraud that can really harm our Christian conscience.
Archpriest Oleg Sknar, Candidate of Theology, “Orthodoxy in Ukraine”
Many people have heard the concept of “kosher”. What does this term mean? In what cases is it used? What is the origin of this concept? The article will find answers to these questions.
"Kosher" means "suitable" in Hebrew. Therefore, the concept of “kosher nutrition” today should be understood as the process of maintaining life and health with the help of food, which does not harm a person.
Judaism, the world's oldest monotheistic religion, presupposes compliance with religious regulations, norms and rules - kosher, which apply not only to clothing, cosmetics, but also to products. According to this installation, Jews must prepare food in accordance with the laws of kashrut and strictly at certain times.
The main purpose of the law is that kosher is a rational and healthy diet that creates harmony in the development of the human body.
Kosher food
The instructions of Moses, which are reflected in the written five-book law of the Torah, indicate that non-kosher food has a bad effect on the health of the individual, his religious level decreases and sensitivity deteriorates, so he is not capable of spiritual perception.
This law states that a person who has tasted the meat of a predator is capable of displaying aggression and is capable of going astray. Therefore, only fillets of herbivorous animals will be considered pure food. The meat of predators is classified as treif products, i.e. prohibited.
Features of kosher food and products
Kosher nutrition requires a person to eat strictly pure food. According to Jewish regulations, all types of plants are suitable for consumption. However, not all fish, poultry or animal meat will be kosher food.
The blood of birds, animals or fish slaughtered in a certain order should be absolutely excluded from the diet, except for fish. A prerequisite for killing animals is the use of a sharp knife: to prevent the animal from suffering, the slaughter process must be carried out quickly.
Before starting the process of boiling or frying meat, it goes through the stages of soaking in water, then kept in a special brine, and finally it is rinsed well.
The cutting process is carried out and compliance with the conditions and criteria of kosher is checked by a special qualified specialist - a shochet, who has a certain permit to slaughter the animal. In addition, a pig is considered an unclean animal by Jews, so pork will never be kosher.
Thus, the teaching of the Torah instills in a person discipline and restrictions, and fosters antipathy towards the shedding of blood and cruelty.
List of kosher foods and dishes
Kosher food is divided into three categories: meat (“basar”), dairy (“free”) and neutral (“parve”). The basic principle of kosher nutrition is the complete separation of dairy foods from meat foods. To ensure that kosher status is maintained, special cutlery and kitchen utensils and dishes are used. Kashrut requires that certain utensils be dipped into the mikveh before their initial use.
The process of preparing such products according to these principles involves preparing food in specially designated areas.
Products of a neutral category can be eaten simultaneously with one of these categories. This variety includes those fruits and vegetables that have not been in contact with non-kosher foods or are not worm-prone.
The list of clean foods is quite long. These include pasta and legumes, fresh, canned or frozen fruits and vegetables, lean, peanut and olive oils, certain types of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, certain brands of tea and chocolate.
This list can be continued, but in any case you need to pay attention to the packaging of the product: it will definitely have a kosher sign. If the sign is missing, consultation with a rabbi is necessary.
How to prepare kosher dishes? Those considered suitable are those in the preparation process of which certain products were used. Therefore, a dish that has been inspected by a rabbi or was prepared in an Israeli kitchen or in a Jewish restaurant will not necessarily be considered kosher. Not at all. You can very easily prepare a kosher dish yourself, taking into account all the signs of kosher for the products that you have in your kitchen refrigerator. However, the main and main feature is, of course, cleanliness in their preparation.
We will talk about the features of products that are suitable for consumption below.
Kosher meat
Jewish cuisine involves the use of meat from artiodactyl ruminants that eat grass. Thanks to the muscular and glandular sections of the stomach, they thoroughly digest food. These include cows, sheep, goats, moose, and gazelles. In addition, this includes animals that do not have cut hooves: rabbits, camels and hyraxes. A complete list of kosher animals can be found in the Torah.
According to the kashrut of the Torah, kosher meat is chickens, geese, ducks and turkeys. However, there are still exceptions: the meat of predatory warm-blooded oviparous animals.
Kosher dairy products
Does the term “kosher” apply to dairy products? What does it mean? Suitable products are considered to be milk that is obtained from clean animals. Only in this case is the product acceptable for consumption. Otherwise, it cannot be used for food.
Kosher food has a number of specific customs and traditions. The kosher principle states that after consuming milk or other dairy products, you should rinse your mouth and eat solid, neutral food that will not stick to the roof of your mouth.
The custom of taking breaks between meals of different categories of kosher food is considered very common. To eat meat you need a break of 30-60 minutes. After eating hard cheeses and between eating “basar” and “freebie”, you must wait 6 hours. Milk can be eaten with fish, but from different dishes.
Fish that is considered kosher
She doesn't need to be killed in a special way. However, there are also exceptions here: kosher fish must have external horny covering and limbs. These are cod, flounder, tuna, pike, trout, salmon, herring, halibut, haddock. Arthropods and soft-bodied crustaceans should not be eaten. Insects, snakes and worms are also not pure foods.
Jews do not eat fish together with meat products, but they can be placed on the table together.
Kosher parve
As noted earlier, even unprocessed fruits and vegetables belong to the parve category. The only condition for keeping kosher in this case is the absence of insects in these products. Therefore, fruits and vegetables that are susceptible to spoilage by bugs and other insects are carefully checked and processed.
Poultry eggs also fall into the neutral category. However, mainly poultry products with unequal ends are allowed for food, namely chicken, goose, turkey, pheasant and quail are also allowed. Jews consider the eggs of predators or those that feed on carrion to be unclean. Products with bloody spots are considered non-kosher. Therefore, they are checked before use.
These types of pure products do not even require a special mark and can be mixed with others in any combination. However, if they were mixed with dairy or meat species, they no longer belong to the “parve” category.
Where can you find such products?
Kosher products are marked with a special sign, which guarantees compliance with the principles of such nutrition, their usefulness, environmental friendliness and high quality. Due to some difficulties in preparing such food, the price of goods suitable for Jews differs significantly from the prices of food that can be found at the market or in a supermarket.
Where is kosher food most often considered traditional? Mostly suitable products can be found in Israel, but recently even the population of other countries attaches great importance to proper nutrition, so you can find such products almost everywhere. And the presence of a kosher sign from the rabbi who supervised the production process of the product will help to verify its quality.
Kosher products - what are they?
Kosher food forms the basis of the diet of countries professing Judaism. According to Jewish rules of halakhah, it is prohibited or permitted to consume certain food products; accordingly, they are divided into kosher and non-kosher. The kosher food system is very ancient and is a kind of treasure of the Jewish people.
All kosher products is divided into 3 large groups: meat - basar, free - dairy products, and parve - bread, fruits, vegetables and other products.
A modern market where they sell kosher products, has become a gigantic business. For example, in the United States alone, the annual turnover of kosher food reaches $150 billion. This has contributed to a large extent to the conquest of the segment of buyers who do not profess Judaism.
Kosher products It is consumed not only by Jews, but also by people suffering from allergies, vegetarians and Muslims. However, people who do not belong to any of these categories often note that kosher products are more natural and tasty.
So, what is kosher food? Kosher products have incredibly high quality requirements. The Jewish tradition of kashrut very strictly defines the criteria that can determine such permitted, pure products. Before entering world markets, kosher food undergoes several levels of quality control, so people who lead a healthy lifestyle are supporters of purchasing kosher goods.
All kosher products are produced or grown under certain conditions that comply with religious rules. If we talk about meat, the animal must be raised in exceptional purity and fed only with environmentally friendly products. In addition, the animal must be killed in the most painless way possible, and its meat must be treated with a saline solution so that there is not a drop of blood in the final product.
Agricultural products, in accordance with kashrut, must be grown in an ecologically clean area, and only natural fertilizers can be used to stimulate growth.
The quality of kosher goods is strictly controlled 170 Jewish organizations that put the appropriate mark on the product. If you doubt whether a product is kosher, always look at its packaging.
In particular, distinguish kosher products from ordinary ones you can if you pay attention to the presence of the letter U in a circle on the package.
The list of such products today includes a wide range of goods from confectionery to baby formula and alcohol.
Our online store offers kosher olive oilfrom PICUAL and Arbequina olives, is manufactured in compliance with strict rules and requirements of organic, environmentally friendly, kosher products. Olive groves, where olives are hand-picked by Pons employees, are located in the picturesque city of Lleida, which is the center of olive oil production throughout Catalonia.
The traditions of collecting, producing and storing olive oil have been preserved for many years, and the high quality and unique taste characteristics of Pons kosher olive oil have been noted by many experts. Of course, every bottle of oil has a kosher confirmation in the form of a U surrounded by a circle.
The set of religious precepts of kashrut is very variable and differs in different communities. At the same time, the quality of the product and its environmental friendliness make it very popular and increasingly in demand.
