The Concept of Halal and Tayyib Food in the Qur’an: A Thematic Tafsir Analysis on Health and Public Nutrition

Abstract

This article aims to understand halal and healthy food according to the Qur’an. There are two findings that will form the problem statement: how are halal and healthy foods according to the Qur’an, and the relevance of halal and healthy foods with the free nutritious food program (MBG) in the present era? To answer these questions, the authors use a literature review method with a descriptive-analytical approach. The results of this study are that halal and healthy foods are greatly needed, and nutritious food provided to the community such as healthy food charity, nutritious food programs, providing halal and healthy food through mosques and foundations. Of course, with diverse halal and healthy foods that can be chosen and developed by foundations, government, and others in strengthening halal and healthy food. The relevance of halal and healthy food in the current era is very important because as long as the food is halal and healthy in terms of its substance, how it is obtained, in terms of its preparation, as well as its nutrition. This research can help facilitate the promoters of halal and healthy food in the current era in starting and paying attention to healthy food distributed to the community so that it is not just food, but halal and healthy in realizing a healthy Indonesia and preventing malnutrition in children of the young generation.