Kosher products are ... Types of kosher products and the conditions for their recognition as kosher

The term "kosher" is used in ordinary speech even by non-Jews - the influence of good Russian films like "Liquidation" is affected. It should be noted that this word is used by Russians-gentiles rather correctly: they mean "correct" food. Although for the Jews, kosher foods are, rather, allowed for eating, approved by the rabbi.

However, if you ask an ordinary person another religion, what is a kosher, you will often get an answer that everything except pork. And it will be a very erroneous opinion.

Basic conditions of kosher

First of all, kosher products are not only food of the right origin, but also a way of cooking and eating. A categorical condition is separate dishes, sinks and tables for dairy products and any meat. If potentially kosher beef was placed in a container, where theoretically lay kosher cheese, it becomes trephine. Moreover, a Jew who ate something dairy before meat dishes should pause for two hours. And if he had meat first, then he had to wait for six hours before dairy.

Even a kosher product can be recognized as trephinous if any physical deficiencies are found: deformation of the internal organs of the animal, revealed during cutting, blood clots in the egg.

All potentially kosher products are those that are grown naturally. That is, in the fattening of the animal there should be no artificial additives; Even if it hurted and was given antibiotics - it is discarded. Hydroponics and chemical fertilizers during the cultivation of vegetables also automatically translate them into the category of trephine. Such strict requirements made kosher products popular among non-Jews: they guarantee the naturalness and quality of food.

Basar: Kosher meat

The harshest rules exist for slaughtered animals. Meat kosher products are derived from ruminant animals that have bifurcated hoofs. Proceeding from these signs, the pig is trephine: its hooves are bifurcated, but it is not herbivorous. For example, a camel has the opposite situation: it chews the cud, but has a unbroken hoof. However, compliance with these rules is not enough. The animal must be packed very quickly, as humanely as possible, with a special kosher butcher. Blood from the animal descends, and the meat is salted out to kill possible infections. And one more feature: kosher meat products are only the front part of the carcass. Zadok even from the "right" animal is already considered trephine.

The bird is no less strict. In theory, you can eat and game, but it must be caught alive and killed by the rules by the same kosher butcher. Therefore, avian kosher products are mostly turkey, goose, chicken, that is, a domesticated bird.

With marine life is even more difficult. A fish with scales and fins is allowed. Partial "ocheushennost" in question: the Orthodox do not even use mirror carp and swordfish. The ban on eating predators also applies to fish. And all kinds of mollusks and crustaceans are generally not food (at least kosher): they do not have fins or scales.

Freebies: dairy products

It's much easier with them. If the animal that gave milk is "pure", then the product is considered kosher. That is, camel milk immediately falls out of the list, and goat and cow - always please. The main thing is that the animal that milked, it was healthy and did not have in the diet of its food unnatural components. And, of course, milk should not come into contact with anything trefnym and be poured only in the intended dishes for it - otherwise it becomes contaminated and can not be used as a kosher one.

Parve: other kosher products

These include everything that is not meat or milk: fruits, cereals, water (and other beverages), vegetables, eggs. However, there are certain conditions:

• Fruits and vegetables should not be wormy;
• The land on which they were grown should not be fertilized with the manure of "unclean" animals and chemical fertilizers;
• Eggs should have a pronounced dissimilarity of ends: one necessarily more round, and the other - pointy. This is because eggs with similar ends are usually carried by predator birds;
• Water should not stand at night open. At night, snakes are activated, which can drink from a cup, and a person is poisoned. It is clear that in many countries there is no such danger, but the Jews still observe this rule.

Kosher foods are not in Israel

Jews live all over the world. Accordingly, they should be able to buy the right food. Kosher products in Moscow, for example, can be bought in the ABC of Taste, Ashane and Seventh Continent, but you will have to wander around and look for the right department. So knowledgeable Jews go to Pardes near the Jewish Center or to the synagogue on Bolshaya Bronnaya - there is the largest store, and even a kosher restaurant. You can also go to the Kosher Market on Trifonovskaya.

Kosher products are becoming more affordable and popular in Ukraine. The list, approved by the rabbinate, is constantly expanding. In Kiev, for example, you can buy food with the synagogues - near the Brodsky synagogue and Bleikh's synagogue (located on Podol). There is also one more kosher shop - in the street Shoty Rustaveli. And in the supermarket chain "Furshet" and "Silpo" special departments are opened.

To be sure of the correctness of the purchase, look for kosher signs on food. They represent the inscription "Kosher", the letters "K", "O" or "OU". However, these signs are invalid without the mark of the rabbi under whose control the production was located.