unclean foods
Religiously forbidden fare
Foods considered impure or forbidden under religious dietary laws.
In Jewish kashrut, unclean foods include pork, shellfish, and animals that don't both chew cud and have cloven hooves.
Islamic halal rules similarly prohibit pork and improperly slaughtered meat.
The category reflects spiritual rather than sanitary concerns: Leviticus lists unclean foods the Israelites must not eat.
- forbiddenNot allowed
- tabooCultural or social prohibition
- dietary lawsRules governing permitted foods
- porkPig as food
- shellfishAquatic creatures with exoskeletons
impure · defiled · abomination · scavenger · carrion · blood · swine · haram · dietary · crawling · cloven · chew the cud · hoof · scales · fins · cud · ritual · abstain
- early churchapostles, early church, Church Fathers, apostolic fathers, Acts of the Apostles
- Religious Abstinenceabstinence, Lent, Ramadan, celibacy, chastity
- forbidden actsblasphemy, idolatry, sacrilege, adultery, incest
unclean foodskosher
Permissible by Jewish law
halal · clean foods · clean animals · pareve
unclean, clean, cleaner, cleanest, cleanly, cleanliness, cleanse, cleanser, uncleanliness