Kosher food. What is this concept?

Almost every person knows about the existence of the concept of "kosher food". What is this term? What does it mean? The concept of kosher products came to us from Israel. It is there that there is a strict set of certain laws and regulations for believing Jews - halakha. This list of norms covers the foundations of both family and religious as well as social life. Halakha has the concept of "kashrut". It means the suitability and permissiveness of something for the life of believers.

The laws of kashrut are strictly adhered to by Jews when choosing products for cooking a variety of dishes. They dictate religious rules and ways of storing food. In other words, control over the quality of kosher food is quite hard. It is implemented by one hundred and seventy organizations of Israel, each of which has its own seal. In the event that the food meets kosher requirements, everyone who wants to try it will know about it. The product will be marked with one of these seals.

Kosher food - what does this concept include? The food that religious Jews should consume according to the laws of halacha includes:

- "bassar" (meat products);

- "free" (dairy products);

- "parve" (neutral products).

What does kosher food mean? This is meat of animals. And for the term "bassar" only ruminant herbivores with bifurcated hoofs, whose habitat is land, are suitable. Thus, kosher animals include cows and sheep, gazelles and goats, giraffes and moose. Do not enter into this list of pigs, rabbits and camels. In order to become kosher, meat should not have blood. Religious laws in this respect are very strict. It is believed that eating food with blood (even if it is contained in an egg in the form of a clot) awakens the cruelty of a person.

From the bird, only turkeys and ducks, chickens and geese, and pigeons entered the kosher list. Eggs, allowed by religious laws to eat, should have one pointed, and the other rounded. Fish, considered kosher, has two symptoms. She must have fins and scales. The consumption of insects, worms and snakes halakha is prohibited.

Dairy products that fit the concept of kosher food, what is it? The list of "freebies" includes only that food that is considered clean. In other words, dairy products must be obtained only from kosher animals.

Neutral products, suitable to the term kosher food, what is it? "Parve" are non-cherry fruits and vegetables. In addition, neutral products are allowed to eat by religious laws only when there was no contact with non-kosher food. For example, it is forbidden to eat a tomato, greased with pork fat.

Kosher products are very common in the Israeli market. However, this trend has changed steadily in recent years. Kosher food has already appeared in Moscow. And it's not about increasing the number of Jews living in the capital. Simply more and more people attach importance to proper and healthy nutrition.

Dishes that are prepared from products that correspond to kashrut, offers a dozen restaurants in Moscow. And every year the number of such institutions is growing steadily. In Izmaylovo, you can taste food cooked with observance of Jewish religious canons in the "Eshel" institution. On Tsvetnoy Boulevard, you can visit the restaurant "Tel Aviv", and on the Sadovo-Triumphal coffee shop "Chocolate" will offer a wide selection of kosher dairy products.