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Is Mott's Halal?

Yes — this one is Halal.

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Reviewed

Mott's original applesauce lists apples, water and ascorbic acid (vitamin C); the cinnamon and unsweetened versions add cinnamon, fruit purees, sugar or natural flavours.

Next step Mott's applesauce is apples, water and vitamin C, and Mott's Fruit Flavored Snacks are set with pectin, not gelatin. Both are Halal on their ingredients. They are not Halal-certified, so check flavoured varieties for anything new. How to verify
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What decides the answer

  • Mott's applesauce

    Halal on ingredients

  • Mott's Fruit Flavored Snacks with pectin and no gelatin

    Halal on ingredients

  • Any new Mott's variety

    read the list for gelatin

Where you'll find it

  • Applesauce jars and pouches
  • Fruit Flavored Snacks in lunchbox pouches
  • Apple juice

Why this ruling

Mott's is the American apple brand: applesauce, apple juice and fruit snacks. All of it is simple to answer.

Applesauce

Mott's original applesauce is apples, water and vitamin C.[1] The flavoured versions add things like cinnamon, apple puree and natural flavours.[2] None of that raises a Halal question.

Fruit snacks

Fruit snacks are where gelatin usually hides: Welch's, for example, uses pork or beef gelatin. Mott's Fruit Flavored Snacks don't. They are set with modified corn starch and fruit pectin, with fruit juice concentrates, plant oil and carnauba wax.[3] That makes them Halal on their ingredients.

Mott's carries no Halal mark, so check any new or limited variety for gelatin. For the juice, see apple juice.

How to verify

  1. Applesauce: apples, water and vitamin C; flavoured versions add cinnamon, purees or sugar.
  2. Fruit snacks: check the gelling agent is pectin and there is no gelatin.
  3. Mott's is not Halal-certified; the answer rests on the ingredients.
  4. Other fruit snacks are a different story: Welch's uses pork or beef gelatin.

Frequently asked questions

Is Mott's Halal?
Yes, on its ingredients. Mott's applesauce is apples, water and vitamin C, and Mott's Fruit Flavored Snacks use pectin instead of gelatin. Mott's is not Halal-certified.
Do Mott's fruit snacks have gelatin?
No. Mott's Fruit Flavored Snacks are set with modified corn starch and fruit pectin, with no gelatin on the packs we checked.
Are Mott's fruit snacks vegan?
Their ingredients are all plant or mineral: corn syrup, sugar, starch, fruit juice, pectin, plant oil and carnauba wax.
Is Mott's apple juice Halal?
Apple juice is Halal. See the apple juice page for what to look for in other brands.

Scholarly view

Fruit, sugar, starch and pectin need no Halal check. The one ingredient that makes fruit snacks Haram elsewhere is gelatin, and Mott's fruit snacks don't use it. 'Natural flavor' is permitted by most scholars when it is used in tiny amounts with no intoxicating effect.

Sources

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Manufacturer / product

  1. Mott's Applesauce Apple

    Open Food Facts Retrieved

    Ingredients: apples, water, ascorbic acid (vitamin C).

  2. Mott's No Sugar Added Applesauce Cinnamon

    Open Food Facts Retrieved

    Ingredients: apples, water, apple puree, natural flavors, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), cinnamon. 'Produced under the authority of Mott's LLP, Frisco, TX.'

  3. Mott's Fruit Flavored Snacks, Assorted Fruit

    Open Food Facts Retrieved

    Ingredients: corn syrup, sugar, modified corn starch, pear, apple and carrot juice concentrates, citric acid, vitamin C, sodium citrate, fruit pectin, malic acid, sunflower and/or canola oil, vegetable and fruit juice for colour, natural flavor, carnauba wax. No gelatin.

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