The Free Starter Sheet

The red list, one screen

Turn the pack over and scan the ingredient list （原材料名）. Any red word → put it back.

Amber words also stop you, because their origin is not printed: shortening ショートニング, emulsifier 乳化剤, flavouring 香料, margarine マーガリン, processed oil-fat 加工油脂. No red but amber present? UNCONFIRMED, do not eat it on a guess.

7 products you can eat

The manufacturer's full ingredient list was checked; no red-list item found. Note: EAT here means the published list is clean, it does not mean halal-certified.

1. Jaga Pokkuru, salt flavour （じゃがポックル 塩味）, potato, named vegetable oil, salt. Salt flavour only.
2. Unsweetened soy milk, Kikkoman / Marusan （無調整豆乳）, soybeans only. Unsweetened type only.
3. Ito En Oi Ocha （お〜いお茶）, green tea + vitamin C.
4. Pocari Sweat, sports drink; no animal-derived ingredient in the maker's list.
5. UCC BLACK unsweetened, coffee only. Black unsweetened only.
6. Plain yogurt, Meiji Bulgaria (plain) / Morinaga Bifidus (plain), milk only. Plain only; fruit and flavoured yogurts are different and often carry gelatin.
7. Natto （納豆）, the beans only. Do not use the sauce packet, natto sauces can contain mirin/alcohol and no brand's sauce could be cleared.

5 famous traps

1. Tokyo Banana, Tokyo's most-bought souvenir. Gelatin in the cream, on the printed ingredient list.
2. Nissin Cup Noodle Seafood, a "seafood" cup whose seasoning contains pork; its allergen line declares pork, chicken and gelatin. Flavour names mean nothing in Japan.
3. Koikeya Karamucho, hot chilli chips with pork + gelatin in the seasoning, per Koikeya's own page. A major halal guide once listed it as Muslim-friendly and had to reverse itself. The label beats any guide.
4. Royce' Nama Chocolate "Au Lait", Hokkaido's most-gifted chocolate, with liquor （洋酒） in the recipe, per Royce's own ingredient page.
5. UHA Kororo gummies, marketed on real fruit juice; every flavour checked lists beef + gelatin on the maker's pages.