Is Balance of Nature Kosher?

Is Balance of Nature Kosher? Yes! All three Balance of Nature products are OU Kosher Certified. While they do not include the Kosher stamp on their bottles, they maintain Kosher expectations and certifications. The certificates are below.

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Why Do People Really Want Kosher, Anyway?

1. You Grew Up Doing It

For many people who grew up in Jewishly-observant homes (that does not just mean Orthodox), keeping kosher is part of the fabric of their lives. It is what feels normal, and whether you do it out of habit or personal religious conviction, it is hard to imagine doing anything else. 

2. Kosher-Observant People Can Eat in Your Home

There’s no denying that gathering around the table to share a meal with friends and loved ones is one of life’s great pleasures. If family members or close friends keep kosher, the desire to host meals can be a big incentive to keep a kosher home.

3. Lactose Intolerance or Dairy Allergies 

Not everyone who seeks out kosher food does so for religious reasons. Kashrut, or the set of Jewish dietary laws, enforces a strict separation between dairy and meat. So, people with dairy allergies or intolerances can rest assured that if a kosher product is certified as meat or pareve, then it is free of all dairy. 

4. High Food Production Supervision

In order to obtain and maintain kosher certification, food production facilities are subject to potentially frequent visits from kashrut agency representatives, who help ensure that the factory is meeting kosher standards. Some manufacturers, caterers, or restaurants will even have a mashgiach (supervisor) on staff for constant on-site oversight. 

Many assume this extra layer of production supervision means the food is “cleaner” or held to a higher food safety standard. In the case of insect adulteration, that may be true—dietary laws have very little tolerance for the consumption of nearly all insects, so there is a lot of attention paid to ensuring that produce and grains are bug-free.

5. Concerns for Animal Welfare

Many Jews and non-Jews alike who are concerned about animal welfare feel more comfortable purchasing kosher meat, because the Torah, Judaism’s holy book, takes a strong stance against causing the suffering of living creatures. Shechita or ritual slaughter is intended to be as humane and quick as possible, in stark contrast to the realities of factory farming and industrial slaughterhouses.

6. Supports a Vegetarian Lifestyle

Jewish law categorizes foods into three groupings: meats, dairy, or pareve (neutral). As part of the guidelines, meat and dairy must never mix, while pareve foods, such as produce, grains, or eggs can be consumed with either meat or dairy foods. Fish is considered pareve, though Orthodox Jews typically refrain from cooking fish and meat together or consuming them from the same plate.

7. Good for Halal-Observant

Though not identical, there are many similarities between the Jewish dietary laws and halal dietary laws observed by Muslims. Both observant Jews and Muslims refrain from eating pork, blood, and dead animals that died of natural causes, illness, or attack. And, for both groups, proper ritual slaughter is necessary to render an animal fit for consumption. 

8. Preserve Tradition and Jewish Identity

French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin famously asserted “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” Without a doubt, keeping kosher is a lifestyle and one that defines the eater and provides clues about the community to which she or he belongs in many ways.

9. Promote Mindfulness About Food

Keeping kosher is not just about the foods you do or do not eat. There are many rules concerning preparation and consumption. There are waiting periods of varying lengths between meat and dairy food consumption. There are blessings to be said both before and after dining.

In other words, keeping kosher is a detail-oriented endeavor and one that requires discipline. But the structure can promote mindfulness and heightened awareness about what, how, and where one eats. And for many, that mindfulness can promote more appreciation, joy, and deeper spiritual insight as you partake in eating a meal.

10. Religious Mandate

This is actually one of the simplest, most straightforward reasons that observant Jews keep kosher. For all of the philosophical, ideological, even quasi-scientific reasons people put forth to help explain Jewish dietary laws, at heart, the mitzvah (commandment) by God to keep kosher is considered a law that cannot be explained by logic alone. That is not to say that keeping kosher is a matter of blind faith, but, rather, that embracing these dietary laws signifies an affirmation of God’s wisdom and a willingness to accept the laws set forth in the Torah.

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Conclusion:

Yes! You do not have to worry if they are kosher. All three Balance of Nature products are OU Kosher Certified. While they do not include the Kosher stamp on their bottles, they maintain Kosher expectations and certifications.

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