Hershey has chosen the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregation (OU) to certify its products as kosher. To have a product approved as kosher, the facility, equipment and ingredients must be reviewed and certified by the OU. After all this is completed, Hershey submits the finished food product for certification.
Nearly all of our chocolate products and some of our non-chocolate products have been certified kosher by the OU and bear the OU symbol on the package.
Kosher describes any food that complies with a strict set of dietary rules in Judaism. Kosher diet rules are called kashrut. The rules cover which foods to eat, how to prepare them, and how to combine them. Not all Jewish
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Kashrut—Jewish dietary laws
The word kosher is usually translated as "proper". Certain foods, notably pork, shellfish and almost all insects are forbidden; meat and dairy cannot be eaten together in one dish and a certain period of time must elapse before dairy food can be eaten following a meat dish.
There are a lot of details, but these are the basics: You can't eat certain animals at all, including organs, eggs, and milk of the forbidden animals. Birds and mammals must be killed according to Jewish law. All blood must be drained from meat and poultry before it's eaten.
This includes products that contain meat or fowl derivatives such as liver pills. Items designated “Meat” must meet the following requirements to be considered kosher: Kosher meat must come from an animal that chews its cud and has split hooves. (Cows, sheep and goats are kosher; rabbits, kangaroos and fox are not).
Others associate it with the general prohibition on certain mixtures set out in the Torah, such as that of coupling animals from different species. Yet others see it as symbolic: the refusal to mix life (milk) and death (meat).
The Torah explains which animals are kosher and which are not. Kosher animals are ruminants, in other words they chew cud, and they have split hooves, such as sheep or cows. Pigs are not ruminants, so they are not kosher. Animals that live in water can only be eaten if they have fins and scales.
Kashrut prescribes that a large number of animals are not to be eaten. Any animal who has cloven hooves and chews its cud may be eaten; such animals as the camel, badger, hare and the pig then may not be eaten. Sheep, cattle, goats and deer are all kosher and may be eaten.
Only eggs from kosher fowl are kosher. These include chicken, Cornish hens, ducks, geese, and turkey. The prohibition of eating blood applies even to the smallest drop of blood, and thus any blood spots found in an egg renders the egg non-kosher.
Foods that meet the Kosher dietary laws are labeled with one of the Kosher symbols, including: K, , and . You can usually find these symbols in small type on the bottom front of the package. Kosher foods that contain milk products usually contain a “D” or the word “Dairy” after the Kosher symbol.
Background. During Passover, Jewish law prohibits the consumption of food items other than matzo that are made with wheat or other similar grains. Given these restrictions, some individuals will make lasagna by substituting matzo for traditional wheat pasta sheets.
One final (and big) difference about kosher pizza, is that meat and dairy products are not allowed to be mixed (or eaten) together. Therefore, kosher pizza restaurants are not allowed to use real Pepperoni, Chicken, etc. as a topping, and typically go with a soy/tofu alternative.
There are two main differences between kosher pizza and traditional pizza. The cheese on a kosher pizza must be made in adherence to kosher law and also because the pizza contains cheese, a dairy product, no meat can be on the pizza.
In accordance with Jewish dietary law, kosher certified means meat and milk products are not mixed together, animal products from non-kosher food animals are not included, and kosher meat is from animals that are properly slaughtered.
None of the laws of kashrut have any scientific basis, they are assumed by the rabbis to be Spiritual in nature. The reason foods like pork, shellfish and cheeseburgers are forbidden is not given in the Torah and it is generally just taken as “that's what God wants, He must know what He is doing”.
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