A COLlive fan from Crown Heights has sent the following email this past week:
“In Albany Bakery my wife bought a new Pringles with the honey mustard flavor and it has a regular OU with not D to indicate dairy.
“However if you look close under the ingredients you will see written in Hebrew that it contains “Non Cholov Yisroel Powder.”
“Since its from Israel there is no D, so most people would just assume its not Milchig and buy it and then be eating non-cholov Yisroel and eat it with meat.”
According Halacha, all dairy products, including cheese and non-fat dry milk powder, which have been produced under the supervision of a Jew.
We checked the website of OU Kosher and found the following statement:
Brands:
Pringles
Products:
BBQ flavored Pringles
Honey Mustard flavored Pringles
Original Flavor Pringles
Reduced Fat Original Flavor Pringles
Company:
Procter & Gamble
Issue:
The above products that feature Hebrew text suggests the presence of Dairy ingredients, the product is certified OU pareve and is correctly marked with the OU symbol.
Pringles are made at diferents countries,from belgium doesn’t have herscher,is treif
You incorrectly state that the pareve flavors contain non Cholov Yisroel powder. 100% WRONG. The graphic designer forgot/never was told that they needed a pareve and dairy Hebrew label, depending on the flavor. The OU and OU-D symbols are correct as printed. As for bishul yisroel, pringles are made from potato flake, not fresh cut/fried potatoes. Look in the English Birkas Hanenin from Kehot, it is not so clear that “Lubavitch holds the potatoes are considered ‘chashuv'” when made into potato flake. Ask your Rav what to do as opposed to a post on a website.
it is not so clear… they are made from RECONSTITUTED potato – they are hardly CHOSHUV to make them OLEH AL SHULCHAN MALOCHIM – nonetheless it’s a machlokes – so don’t be so sure… and to #17 – same thing! Since when is potato flour oleh al shulchan malochim
It’s not bishul Yisroel!!!
It’s not even made with potatoes, It’s made with potato flower. It needs to be bishul Yisroel. Bishul Yisroel is much more serious then Pas Yisoel and Chalav Yisroel
Pringles, like all ou potato chips – are not bishul yisrael. Lubavitch holds that potatoes are considered “chashuv” and need to bishul yisrael (the fire to cook them has to be ignited by a Jew).
I called ou a while ago and a rabbi told me that they do not believe potatoe chips need this.
I have heard lectures from prominent Chabad rabbonim on the impotance of upholding BISHUL an PAS yhisrael – together with oldtime (and maybe new time) stories of what happened when something went wrong in that area of keeping kashrus,.
The containers says it was produced in ohio, yet it seems this is saying the pringels are from Israel and that why there is a hebrew hechsher, well ho does that work? and if it was a mistake how can there be some pringels that say parve in hebrew?
There is so much garbage in pringles, that you’re probably better off without them anyway.
doesnt it say that the text saying that thier is dairy ingredients is a mistake and really it is parve?
are they allowed to not include such an ingredient?
is it really milchig?
It’s been like this for at least half a year. And if I remember correctly it’s a second hechsher on the pringles that writes it. At the time I noticed it I tried finding out why there’s such a difference between the hechsheiim.
pringles made in america are ou pareve,eventhough i dont think there is a issue with the israeli product. urchase the american version which has no doubt.
I still would not eat them, regardless of what the OU said.
Could be there is some dairy ingredient that the OU missed.
Unless they had that typeset for Eretz Yisroel for the DAIRY flavors. Sorry brainfreeze.
This has been printed on Pringles since at least the summer. I also called the OU and they said it is a printing error, which may be plausible because Pringles in America do not routinely (if ever) have any Hebrew hechsher notes. However, the question is, how would that printing error have ever made it on the can? If there was no milk powder in the products, Pringles would never have had that typeset to even mistakenly put on their product, even for Eretz Yisroel.
Thank you for posting this article.
I almost bought them myself when I noticed the hebrew and was very suspicious. (I was in a gaz station….)
So now people will know.
The major problem with prinfting specific hechsherim on labels is that when there is a mistake as such, it is very difficult to correct (sometimes in the millions) many ackages that have that error. apparently that is what happened here.
I spoke to the ou 2 month ago,they told me its a simple printing mistake.It is pareve.
Is it pareve or is it dairy? I am confused.
thats why we dont eat them all together!
did you ever hear of a printing mistake the Hebrew heccher made one if you look on the ingredients you will not find any milk wich is requierd by FDA even when there is a milk prodyct close my they are requered to write nay contain milk partacles