By: Afifah, Alya, Dayini, Sabrina

 Acknowledgement....................
 Objectives................................
 Introduction.............................
 History.....................................
 Halal awareness.......................
 Dalil and Al-Quran...................
 Wisdom....................................
 Health effects..........................
 Observation..............................
 Methods..................................
 Results.....................................
 Discussion...............................
 Conclusion...............................
 References...............................
 First of all, we would like to say thank you to
the people who helped us do this project. We
really appreciated the help we got from our
teachers, Ustz. Zaki and Ustz. We would also
like to thank our friends who supported us
and helped us to understand this project.
 TO LEARN ABOUT THE USE OF SWEETENERS.
 TO KNOW ABOUT THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF
SWEETENERS.
 TO RAISE AWARENESS OF HALAL AND HARAM
FOOD SWEETENERS.
A sweetener is a substance used to sweeten food
or drinks, especially one other than sugar.
 There are two types of sweeteners:

NATURAL:
Eg:
- HONEY
-STEVIA
ARTIFICIAL:
Eg: Honey
-ASPARTAME
-SUCRALOSE
stevia
 The first substitute, saccharin, was found in
the 1870s.
 Researchers looking for coal tar discovered
their byproducts were sweet.
 Food makers started developing saccharin.
 It was easy to make and needed less labour
than making sugar.
 Other versions followed, and while some, like
aspartame, contain about 4 calories per
gram, others boasted fewer or no calories at
all.
 What is Halal?
 General: Permitted or lawful.
 In food: Foods that are allowed to be eaten
according to the Islamic Sharia law.

 Syubhah: Suspected.
 If one does not know the Halal or Haram
status of a particular food or drink, such a
food or drink is doubtful.
 What is Haram?
 General: The opposite of halal (forbidden).
 In food: Food that includes:
 Blood
 Alcohol
 Meat or any products from a forbidden animal,
including pigs and any carnivorous animals or
birds or prey.
 Meat or any products of an animal which has
not been slaughtered in the correct manner in
the name of Allah.
 Forbidden to you are Maytatah (carrion or dead
animal, animal not slaughtered with Tasmiyah i.e.
reciting 'Bismillahi Allahu Akbar'), flowing blood,
the flesh of swine, and that slaughter on which
was invoked name other than Allah, as well as
the (animal) killed by strangulation or beaten to
death with violent blow or falling (from a height)
to its death or gored to death (through fighting)
or by falling to a predator (and about to be
consumed -- unless you are able to slaughter
before it dies)…. (5:3)
 For physical, mental and spiritual health.
 Strength from it will be much more than one
who consumes Haram.
 We will enter Jannah.
 ‘Everybodythat is nourished unlawfully, Hell
would be his abode.” (Bukhari)
 What?
 Sweet, sticky, yellowish-brown fluid made by bees
 Nectar collected from flowers

 How it is made:
 Bees suck up nectar
 They turn the sucrose in the nectar to other
sugars (glucose, fructose)
 The bees put this watery honey mix into their
hive
 After most of the water has evaporated, it
becomes honey.
No alcohol or forbidden things = HALAL.
What?
 Stevia rebaudiana.

How it is made:
 The leaves are placed in hot water
 Passed through a resin material that will trap and
collect steviol glycosides.
 Resin is washed with alcohol to free the
glycosides.
 Re-crystallization = purified glycosides as an end
product.
 Alcohol=HARAM
 Some= HALAL
What?
 low-calorie sweetener
 Sweeten foods and beverages
 Tabletop sweetener.

How it is made:
 Phenylalanine which makes up 50 percent of the chemical
by weight
 Aspartic acid -- 40 percent
 Methanol (wood alcohol) -- 10 percent
 Aspartic acid and phenylalanine are found naturally.
 Methanol is a toxic, colourless, volatile flammable liquid
alcohol.
 We are not sure if aspartame can be halal so it is best if we
do not jump to an unstudied conclusion.
What?
 Non-nutritive.

How it is made:
 begins with sucrose, or table sugar.

 Replacing three select hydrogen-oxygen groups on the

sugar molecule with three chlorine atoms.

No alcohol or forbidden = HALAL.

Natural sweeteners:

Sweetener Good effects Bad effects

Honey a) Energy Booster a) Mostly made up of
b) Immunity system sugar
builder b) Too much is bad
c) Remedy for
ailments

Stevia a) Treat heartburn a) May cause allergic

b) Treats high blood reactions
pressure b) May cause
c) Lowering uric acid metabolism change
levels c) May cause
numbness,
dizziness and body
aches
 Artificial sweeteners:
Sweetener Good effects Bad effects
Aspartame a) A calorie per packet a) loses sweetness if
(equal) heated for long time
b) Used to sweeten b) people with genetic
food and drinks disorder
c) 200 times sweeter phenylketonoria
than sugar must avoid it
c) can trigger
headaches or
migraines
Sucralose a) 0 calories/packet a) Contains 3 atoms of
b) 1000 times sweeter chlorine
than sugar b) too much causes
c) No after taste gases, diarrhea and
bloating.
 Objective: to see what type of sweeteners are
used in food products.
 Hypothesis: If the product is sugar-free, then
artificial sweeteners will mostly be used.
 Materials:
 Toblerone
 Wrigley’s Doublemint
 Wrigley’s Watermelon Tempest
 Nescafe
 Mister potato crisps (Honey cheese)
 1. Choose 5 food samples to be analysed.
 2. Observe what sweeteners are present.
 3. Write down and classify data taken.

Manipulated variable Food sample

Responding variable sweetener in the food

Constant variable Thing to be observed
(Sweetener)
Food samples Sweeteners
Nescafe tin(original) Sugar, glucose syrup, stevia
extract
Wrigley’s doublemint Sugar, glucose syrup,
aspartame, acesulfame
Wrigley’s watermelon Sorbitol, xylitol, malitol,
tempest mannitol, aspartame,
sucralose
Toblerone Sugar, honey,
Mister potato crisps(Honey Sugar
Cheese)
Classification:
Type of sweetener used Food product
Natural Nescafe tin (original), Wrigley’s
doublemint, Toblerone, Mister
potato crisps(Honey Cheese)
Artificial Wrigley’s doublemint
Wrigley’s watermelon tempest
 Conclusion:
 Companies use artificial and natural sweeteners.
 The sugar free food samples were mostly
sweetened by artificial sweeteners.
 Sugar substitutes can help people trying to lose
weight.
 Why? Because artificial sweeteners are very low in
calories.
 Replacing sugar with artificial sweeteners can
also help prevent dental decay and aid in blood
sugar control in people with diabetes.
 Artificial sweeteners are attractive alternatives
to sugar.
 Also, many people don’t know that some
sweeteners aren’t halal.
 For example, stevia can be processed with or
without alcohol involved. To avoid consuming
the non-halal sweeteners, look for the logo
that states that the product is halal before
consuming it.
 Websites:
 www.muslimconsumergroup.com
 www.simple.m.wikipedia.org
 www.foodrenegade.com
 www.nutritionstripped.com
 http://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/75052058773
 http://hadithaday.org/those-who-deserve-the-curse/allah-has-cursed-alcohol/
 http://www.nutritionexpress.com/showarticle.aspx?articleid=119
 http://www.foodinsight.org/Everything_You_Need_to_Know_About_Sucralose
 https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=what+is+methanol
 www.myislaam.com/fiqh/eating-halal/?doing_wp_cron=1461578183.2956609725952148437500
 http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/stevia-made-7125.html
 http://www.madehow.com/Volume-3/Aspartame.html
 www.halalchoices.com.au/what_is_halal.html
 http://www.myislaam.com/fiqh/eating-halal/
 http://www.newhealthguide.org/Stevia-Side-Effects.html
 http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20424821,00.html
 http://canadianhalalfoods.com/halal-haram-mushbooh_ingredients.html?panna=3
 http://miniyummers.com/how-do-bees-make-honey-for-kids/
 http://www.cookeryonline.com/Vegetarian/halal.html
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