WRIGLEY

We are delighted to announce as part of our CoSKA programme
that the following Wrigley products, including the non-sugar variants, are Kosher  
​      BONUS - for those concerned about gelatine, these are gelatine-free

  • PK® – Blue and Mint
  • Hubba Bubba® Strawberry and original
  • Extra® – Peppermint, Spearmint, Strawberry
  • EXTRA® Active™ - Peppermint, Spearmint
  • ECLIPSE® - Peppermint, Spearmint, Cool Breeze, Berry
  • ECLIPSE® Chewy - Spearmint, Fruit Trio, Peppermint
  • EXTRA® Professional - Lemon Lime, Bubblemint, Peppermint
  • AIRWAVES® - Menthol Eucalyptus
  • 5gum® - Cobalt (peppermint), Electro (spearmint), Tempest (watermelon), Strawberry
  • SKITTLES® - Fruits, Sours, Tropical
An alternative Australian Kosher agency, declares - “in line with our policy of not recommending products about which we have not received validating information, we continue not to recommend Slurpees”

Many Kosher agencies, including the London Beth Din identify many drinks including products such as Slurpees, as Kosher based upon these Halachic guidelines. Insisting upon 'higher' standards is a violation of and contrary to, Halacha.

Every time we eat meat for example, from the greatest sage to the most simple Jew, is illustrating the Halacha that we do NOT require ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY that the meat is free of all blemishes that would cause it to be non-Kosher. We do NOT check, nor does any Kosher agency or Rabbi check for every single possible blemish that may render it a Tereifa i.e. not Kosher.

In our entire history no such notion was ever proposed.

Our loyalty and devotion to Gd requires that we embrace and follow Gd's instructions and not modify, nor pick and choose from them. HKBH instructs us to observe that most animals are not afflicted with various disqualifying blemishes and need not and ought not be checked for those blemishes. Suggesting that we should check for such blemishes, is in defiance of HKBH and His Torah and violates the Halacha. Any such urge is driven not by Gd's guidelines but by personal and likely ungodly preferences.

Just as it is a defiance of Gd's will for anyone to ignore their professional medical advice and fast over Yom Kippur, it is equally defiant and rebellious to modify Gd's instructions and propose stringencies where there is no sound basis. Betraying Gd means ignoring Gd's instructions because we think that our ideas are better.

Kosher meat is that which has been slaughtered and has complied with Gd's instructions, not His instructions modified by our preferences. HKBH instructs us to rely on majority and the normal.

Even if it is later discovered that the meat is from an animal that has a non-Kosher blemish, those who have eaten are not considered to have erred or sinned in even the slightest degree. They do not and should not engage in any form of penance. They must not feel any sense of shame or failure. They have followed Gd’s word and THAT is what counts.
Here is another false warning - glycerol is listed as an ingredient in this Slurpee flavour, it should therefore not be eaten. Other Slurpee flavours that do not list glycerol as an ingredient remain acceptable.
Reb Moshe Feinstein rules that glycerol has no flavour.

But let us ask:
Why is glycerol not Kosher?
Glycerol is produced as a by-product when manufacturing soap. Soap is produced by the saponification of fats, i.e. by combining the fats with caustic soda, Sodium Hydroxide, a most lethal toxic alkali. 
Halacha permits a non-Kosher food that has been denatured, become spoiled and is no longer a food, even if it morphs again into a food. 

Besides, the taste of Glycerol is of no Halachic value in the final product, it is not added for taste [although it is mostly slightly sweet] but for texture, and entirely insignificant, Battel.