Halal Bakery

We ran 1,052 bakery through our halal rules: 24 pass, 12 need a label check, and 92 don't make it.

Packaged breads and pastries lean on emulsifiers like E471 and E481, plus the flour treatment agent L-cysteine, all of which can be made from animal or plant sources. Some traditional pastries use lard outright. The label rarely settles any of this, so the aisle collects a lot of honest question marks.