Trident chewing gum - halal or haram???

nyc —

My friend gave me a stick of trident chewing gum tropical twist flavour, it was very nice and I want to buy more but when looking on their website, I read that they 'use sugar alcohols with intense sweeteners'.


ALCOHOLS?! I mean I know from biology that glucose has -OH groups in right, and they are alcohol groups. But I mean, can we have this gum? What do you guys think?


Please let me know. Im tired of wrigleys, wanna try something new!


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Beast — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 - 13:36

You should submit a question in writing to the scholars of Al Azhar.


God forbid you be left without as full choice of alternatives to Wrigley's.


nyc — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 - 14:19

[quote="ßeast"] God forbid you be left without as full choice of alternatives to Wrigley's.[/quote] Funny :roll:


Noor, u aint heard of trident gum? Do u live in a cave? Lol. I bet u havent heard of the other trident either have u? The one that costs around £750 million or whatever it is. And that aint no gum!


nyc — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 - 17:49

[quote="You"]The only "Trident" I have heard of is a nuclear weapons program by the MOD.[/quote]

That would be the 750 mill I was on about!


nyc — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 - 14:41

[quote="You"]pretty cheap for a nuclear program then. What was all the fuss about?[/quote]

I thought it was around 750 mill, its actually more like 20 billion. The 750 was the initial phase, I looked it up. Cant remember if it was 2bn or 20 billion but still a lot of money.


Think of how much chewing gum u could buy with £20bn LOL 😂


Joie de Vivre — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 - 12:40

Trident is made by Cadbury. They launched the brand a few months back and it immediately became a big hit - you're bound to have seen it even if you didn't notice it was anything different. The flavours are supposed to last longer so you can peel it off the pavement if you're hungry. The regular Trident contains bovine gelatin (ground up bits of cow), which means it is not halal. Trident [i]Soft[/i] doesn't contain bovine gelatin and the packet says it is suitable for vegetarians.


Joie de Vivre — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 - 12:51

And I've missed you. I'm around, just my schedule's pretty full. Hope you had a great Umrah.


Trident Splash also gontains bovine gelatin. (btw I just looked it up and discovered that all of Cadbury's spiel about intensive research into a brand with universal appeal and flavours designed to perfection was rubbish. It's been around in the States since the 60s and Cadbury-Schweppes has simply brought it to the UK.)


nyc — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 - 18:28

[quote="Joie de Vivre"]

Trident Splash also gontains bovine gelatin. (btw I just looked it up and discovered that all of Cadbury's spiel about intensive research into a brand with universal appeal and flavours designed to perfection was rubbish. It's been around in the States since the 60s and Cadbury-Schweppes has simply brought it to the UK.)[/quote]


Thanks for the info, u kinda answered my question, but what about the ALCOHOL factor? Are sugar alcohols permissable for muslims? Im assuming they are but dont wanna take the risk.


You — Sun, 24 May 2009 - 13:05

[quote=Joie de Vivre]...They launched the brand a few months back and it immediately became a big hit...[/quote]


Sounds like marketing... two years on and I still haven't seen it around!


You — Sun, 24 May 2009 - 13:07

[quote=Mohammad ahmad khan]you can have it because sugar alcohol is not alcohol.....[/quote]


From Wikipedia:


Trident is a brand of sugarless chewing gum popular in the


Spot the magic word.


EDIT - on same page it also says:


Trident gum contains the sugar alcohol, xylitol, which is known as a "tooth-friendly" sugar.


Having a look at the links, they are not "alcohol" alcohol, but just belong to the "alcohol group of chemicals" by nature of having an OH bond.


Fatwa: Allowed. Unless there is something else in there which is banned.


You — Fri, 9 Oct 2009 - 18:01

ok, got this today in peppermint flavour (could not find any wrigleys at all...) and in the ingredients it says "+ a wallop from a minty walrus, this stuff sounds bonkers but it makes great gum..."


Sounds like a weird ingredient to me...


sidrah (not verified) — Thu, 7 Jan 2010 - 18:12

erm sugar alcohol is a sweetner so its halal i have it all the time dont worry and enjoy i once read the packet i was like oh my i didnt know it had alchohol in it but no its a sweetner


Anonymousy (not verified) — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 - 00:19

Trident Gum is haram, but not because of the sugar alcohol in it because sugar alcohol is just sugar and water, however it is still haram because it has geletain in it.


TPOS — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 - 16:07

[quote=You]proof?


Last time I checked it didn't have that in there.[/quote]


i think its the blue one has gelatine in it. im pretty sure one of them has. orange one hasn't though


farhad (not verified) — Sat, 8 Jan 2011 - 21:42

hello in the oficcial site of trident in FAQ said that this gum is not for kosher. and kosher means jewish nutrition restrictions.in jewish rule the pork meat is not allowed, thus probably this gum is made of pork gellatin.