Does Islam have any food restrictions?

Answer 1

Yes, it does have. Some of them strictly prohibited and Haram in Islam are:

1. Pure Alcohol or any intoxicant in any form or in any quantity.

2. Swine- its skin, flesh, even hair.

3. Flowing blood of any animal

4. Flesh, blood etc of human beings, monkeys etc

5. Flesh of beasts of prey like jackals, wolves, lions etc

6. Birds of Prey like a hawk, a vulture, a kite etc.

7. Any Halal animal slaughtered in the name of some idol, pious man, or other than the name of Almighty Allah (God).

8. Food cooked by a person who does not believe in Almighty Allah.

Answer 2

YES. This is the Halal and Haram system of food classification.

There are several main requirements (other than fast times when no food or water may be consumed) and these include:

1. No pork or any other porcine ingredient (bacon, ham, pork Gelatin, etc.).
2. No alcohol or any item that uses alcohol in its preparation (e.g. beer-battered fish, coq au vin, tiramisu, etc.).
3. No animals generally seen as unfit for consumption (dogs, snakes, eagles, etc.).
4. Certain schools of Shiite Islam additionally forbid shellfish and certain types of fish, following the Jewish kosher guidelines on sea creatures, but this is not followed at all by Sunnis and ignored by most Shiites.
   
5. All land animals must be slaughtered according to the religious requirements of dhabiha (ذبيحه) and there are debates as to whether Jewish slaughter or shechita (שחיטה) qualifies as dhabiha, but Christian slaughter is unequivocally invalid.
   
6. No plants can be used if they are toxic or hallucinogenic.
7. At no time during the processing or transport of acceptable foodstuffs may they come into contact with forbidden foodstuffs.