Are Niknaks, Cheese Flings and Cadbury Chocolates permissible?
Cheese Niknaks are not permissible. Our stand regarding chocolates and sweets is to abstain from ALL sweets and chocolates regardless of the manufacturers. Some of these products contain haraam gelatine, haraam colourings, haraam flavouring agents, haraam essences, alcohol, etc. It is extremely difficult to investigate the thousands of lines of these products. The manufacturers are also cagey and reluctant to provide accurate information. Haraam ingredients are also concealed under many chemical names. At least we can say that many of these products are haraam, and all are Mushtabah (Doubtful). Abstention is therefore the best course.