Is Monster Munch Halal?
It depends on what the label says.
Monster Munch, the Walkers baked corn snack, is made from maize and rapeseed oil with a flavour seasoning.
Photo: Open Food Facts contributors · CC BY-SA 3.0
How to verify
- No meat on either list: the roast beef flavour is a seasoning.
- Pickled Onion: 'Suitable for Vegetarians' on the bag.
- Roast Beef: check your bag for the vegetarian line.
- Whey permeate and flavourings are the ingredients some people ask about.
Quick checks
- No meat listed in either flavour.
- Pickled Onion marked vegetarian.
- No Halal mark.
What decides the answer
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Pickled Onion (marked vegetarian, no meat)
Halal on ingredients; whey permeate to weigh -
Roast Beef (no meat listed)
check the bag for the vegetarian line -
If you only eat certified snacks
no Halal mark on the bags checked
Why this ruling
Monster Munch are Walkers' baked corn snacks shaped like monster claws, sold in flavours such as Pickled Onion and Roast Beef. Neither flavour contains meat.
What's in the bags
The Pickled Onion bag lists maize and rapeseed oil with a seasoning of flavourings, whey permeate from milk, onion powder, sugar, flavour enhancers, salt, potassium chloride, garlic powder, hydrolysed soya protein, citric acid and spices, and is marked "Suitable for Vegetarians".[1] The Roast Beef bag's seasoning is wheat flour, hydrolysed soya protein, whey permeate, flavourings, rusk, sugar, flavour enhancers, onion and garlic powder, salt, caramel colour and spices.[2] There is no beef in it.
What is left to weigh
Without meat, there is no slaughter question. The ingredients some Muslims ask about are the whey permeate, a by-product of cheese-making, and flavourings whose sources are not stated. The vegetarian mark on Pickled Onion rules out anything from a slaughtered animal; check the Roast Beef bag you buy for the same line. Neither bag shows a Halal mark.
For another meat-named UK snack with no meat in it, see Frazzles.
Where you'll find it
- Baked corn snacks in claw shapes
- Lunchbox and multipack snacks
Frequently asked questions
Is Monster Munch Halal?
Does Roast Beef Monster Munch contain beef?
Is Monster Munch vegetarian?
Scholarly view
A meat-named flavour made from soya protein, spices and flavourings contains no meat, so the slaughter question does not arise. The Pickled Onion bag's vegetarian mark also rules out anything from a slaughtered animal. What is left is whey permeate, made from the whey left after cheese-making, which some scholars ask about because of rennet, and flavourings whose sources are not given. With no Halal mark, those are for you to weigh.
Sources
Named Islamic, certifier, manufacturer, and regulatory sources used on this page. Inline markers like [1] jump here. Retrieval dates show when we last checked the live URL. Editorial methodology.
Manufacturer / product
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Walkers Monster Munch Pickled Onion, 60 g (barcode 5000328206561)
Open Food Facts (ingredient list checked on the pack photo) Retrieved
Photo uploaded December 2020. Maize, rapeseed oil, pickled onion seasoning [flavourings, whey permeate (from milk), onion powder, sugar, flavour enhancers (monosodium glutamate, disodium 5'-ribonucleotide), salt, potassium chloride, garlic powder, hydrolysed soya protein, acid (citric acid), spices]. 'Suitable for Vegetarians.'
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Walkers Monster Munch Roast Beef, 60 g (barcode 5000328206738)
Open Food Facts (ingredient list checked on the pack photo) Retrieved
Photo uploaded June 2020. Roast beef flavour baked corn snacks: maize, rapeseed oil, roast beef seasoning [wheat flour, hydrolysed soya protein, whey permeate (from milk), flavourings, rusk (from wheat), sugar, flavour enhancers, onion powder, salt, garlic powder, colour (ammonia caramel), spices].
