Ben & Jerry’s, the American ice cream brand sold in Singapore supermarkets and scoop shops, draws steady halal questions because its own website seems to answer them. The register answer is at the top of this page; here is the context around it.
What Ben & Jerry’s says
The brand’s Singapore website marks a number of tub flavours, including Vanilla, Triple Caramel Chunk and Chocolate Therapy, as “HALAL CERTIFIED”. Ben & Jerry’s has also published halal-certified flavour lists for other markets such as Australia and New Zealand. These are product-level claims about imported tubs, so the certificate belongs to the factory and certifier named on the packaging rather than to any Singapore premises. Separately, many Ben & Jerry’s tubs carry a kosher symbol. Kosher is a different standard with different rules, and a kosher mark is not a halal certificate.
What this means for you
For packaged tubs, the practical check is the tub itself: look for the halal mark and the certifying body printed on the packaging, because flavour line-ups and factories change. Scoop shops are a separate question from sealed tubs, since a premises serves many products and toppings under one roof. If MUIS certification of the premises is your standard, treat the scoop shops as unverified rather than as either halal or non-halal, and use the register search to check any specific outlet.
Certified alternatives
If you want an ice cream stop backed by a certificate you can verify, start here:
- Swensen’s - a MUIS-certified restaurant chain built around ice cream and sundaes.
- Snack bars and bakeries - the register category that covers most certified dessert and ice cream kiosks.
- How to check halal certification - what a valid certificate looks like and how to verify one.