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No Hashgachah Needed

Date: November 15, 2024

November 19, 2024

Kosher certification agencies ensure that food we eat is kosher, but there are some foods that consumers – and kosher agencies – can use, even if they do not bear certification. These tend to be foods that are made from relatively simple ingredients which are raw or minimally processed, and, thereby, avoid the possibility that they contain problematic ingredients, were processed on equipment used for non-kosher, or have halachic issues such as insect infestation, bishul akum, and the like.

The following is a list of items which cRc Kosher has determined can be purchased anywhere in the United States or Canada, even if it is not certified as kosher.

Notes:

The items listed must be free of additives
Food items from Israel have special kashrus considerations, and should, therefore, only be used with certification
For the status of spices that are not listed here and fresh fruits and vegetables, search for the specific item at ASKcRc.com
This list does not apply for Pesach

Almond flour	Cornstarch	Pumpkin, raw
Almond meal	Cupcake holders (paper or foil)	Quinoa, raw
Aluminum foil	Dishwashing soap	Rice flour (white or brown)
Apple sauce, unflavored	Eggs, white or brown (whole, raw, in shell)	Rock candy, unflavored
Bags (paper or plastic, including for cooking)	Farro, including 10-minute	Rye flour
Baking soda	Flax meal	Salmon, fresh/raw
Bean flour	Flax seed	Salt (included iodized)
Beans, raw/dried	Flour	Seltzer, unflavored
Brown sugar	Foil pans (disposable)	Silver polish
Buckwheat, roasted	Garlic, granulated	Soap pads
Cassava flour	Lentils, dried	Spelt flour
Cedar planks (commonly used for salmon)	Millet flour	Sugar (including white, brown, confectioners, and turbinado)
Chickpea flour	Nuts, raw (with no flavors or other ingredients)	Sushi rice, raw
Cinnamon sticks	Oat bran	Tapioca starch flour
Coconut flour	Oat flour	Tea (black, green, or orange Pekoe), unflavored
Coconut sugar	Oatmeal, unflavored	Turbinado sugar
Coffee filters	Oats, steel-cut	Water, unflavored
Coffee, instant unflavored	Onions, granulated	Wax paper
Cooking twine	Oven bags	Wheat bran
Confectioners Sugar	Palm sugar	Wheat flour
Corn bran	Parchment paper, silicone	Wood chips (for barbecue)
Corn flour	Pasta, raw unflavored
Corn meal	Pepper, black or white
Corn starch	Plastic wrap
Corn syrup	Pomegranate seeds/arils