Manual of Clinical Nutrition

Kosher Guidelines

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FOOD GUIDE – KOSHER DIET
FOOD GROUP FOODS ALLOWED FOODS EXCLUDED
Dairy Milk Products All foods containing milk or white sauces
Note: Foods containing milk derivatives such
as sodium caseinate and lactose are
considered dairy

Meat Meat Only meat from an animal that chews its cud
and has split hooves
Beef: chuck, brisket, plate, shank, rib up to and
including 12th rib
Broiled liver
Veal/lamb: shoulder, rack, shank, breast

Pork and pork products

Beef: loin, rump, flank, shank,

hindquarter

Veal: loin, leg, flank, shank,

Lamb: loin, leg, hind quarter

Fowl Most domesticated fowl are by tradition
considered to be kosher: chicken, turkey,
domestic duck

Wild fowl that is hunted

Pareve Breads,
Cereals, and
Grains

All except listed in Foods Excluded column

Bread made with lard or animal

shortening.

Note: Breads and cereals containing any

dairy products are classified as dairy

Eggs Eggs from domestic fowl
Eggs containing blood spots

Fish and
Seafood

Fish having both fins and scales:

halibut, flounder, cod, tuna, haddock,

pollack, turbot, salmon, trout, whitefish,

herring, etc.

Catfish, eel, marlin, sailfish, shark,

sturgeon, swordfish, lumpfish,

scallops, and shellfish such as

lobster, shrimp, crab and oysters

Vegetables and
Fruit

All, prepared with pareve certification and

allowed ingredients; fresh do not require

Kashruth certification.

Baked beans, catsup, chick peas, chow mein

noodles, dehydrated or canned soup and

bases, prepared sauces, tomato juice,

tomato products, frozen fruits and

vegetables in sauce, grape juice, blended

fruit juice drinks and punches, must have

Kashruth certification

Fats Pure vegetable oil
Margarine made with vegetable shortening
and without milk

Lard or animal shortening

Margarine with added milk

Butter

Sweets Imitation sour cream or whipped topping with
pareve certification
Sugar, jam, jelly (grape jelly only if has
Kashruth certification), syrup
Candy without milk

Beverages Coffee, tea, carbonated beverages
Alcoholic beverages
Nondairy creamer with pareve certification
Those made with milk or milk products are
considered to be a part of the dairy group

Other Desserts Desserts made without milk or animal
products are considered to be pareve
certified

Desserts made with lard or animal

shortening

Monoglycerides and diglycerides and

emulsifiers that may be from animal

fats