Herbalife Halal Certification: The Full Certified Product List

By Dogus Dilan, Herbalife Independent Wellness Coach · Last updated 11 September 2026

What this guide covers

1. Is Herbalife halal? The precise answer
2. Who issues the certificates: IFANCA and HFCE
3. What a certificate certifies, and what renewal means
4. View the certificates page by page
5. Which certified products are sold in the UK
6. The complete certified list, plant by plant
7. What the certificates do not cover
8. Herbalife Gels and gelatine
9. Herbalife kosher certification
10. How to check any product yourself
11. Shop the certified products
12. Frequently asked questions

Is Herbalife halal? The precise answer

Herbalife holds halal certificates for a specific list of named products, not for its entire catalogue. Each certificate names a single manufacturing plant plus the individual products audited at that site, and each is signed by the president of the issuing body.

This structure matters in practice. Formula 1 Cookie Crunch is certified under code F3897 at the Fine Foods plant in Lombardy; Formula 1 Salted Caramel, produced later, does not appear on any certificate in this set. Both are Formula 1, both are sold in the UK, and only one has a certificate behind it.

Who issues the certificates: IFANCA and HFCE

Two independent organisations appear on the Herbalife halal documents, and they issue in pairs: for every plant, IFANCA and HFCE produce a certificate on the same date covering the same product list. This is a common arrangement where a manufacturer wants recognition in both North American and European markets.

IFANCA has operated as a not-for-profit since 1982 and uses the registered Crescent-M service mark. It is accredited by the ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB) to certify halal products under OIC/SMIIC 2:2011, the international guideline for bodies providing halal certification. HFCE is a Brussels-based certification body founded in 2010, registration number 827964482, accredited by the Turkish Halal Accreditation Agency (HAK).

Neither body is a UK government scheme. There is no single statutory halal authority in the United Kingdom, so British Muslim consumers who follow a specific domestic scheme such as HMC or HFA should note that an IFANCA or HFCE certificate is a different document, even where the underlying audit is equivalent.

What a certificate certifies, and what renewal means

This is the part that causes the most confusion, so it is worth setting out plainly. A halal certificate is not issued to a brand and it is not issued for a period of time in the way a passport is. It is issued to a formulation produced at a named facility. The audit examines the ingredient specification, the suppliers behind each ingredient, and the production line those ingredients pass through.

What that means in practice is that the assessment is tied to two things staying the same: the recipe and the factory. Neither of those changes on a date in a calendar.

The certificates reproduced in this guide therefore do two jobs. They record which exact formulations and which exact plants have been examined and passed by IFANCA and HFCE — information that changes only when the product itself changes. And they give you a product code, which is the one piece of data precise enough to request the current-cycle document for a specific item if you want one in your own hands.

Read across the rows and the pattern is visible: the 2023 documents were renewed in 2024, and the same products carry the same codes in both cycles. That continuity is the useful signal here, and it is why the product code matters more than the date.

View the certificates page by page

The full certificate set runs to sixteen pages: HFCE and IFANCA certificates for the Winston-Salem plant in North Carolina (document 4237.9482, issued 21 August 2023) and for the Fine Foods plant in Italy (document 4237.4240, issued 25 July 2023), four pages each. Page one is shown at the top of this guide; the remaining fifteen are below. Select any page to open it at full size.

A further set of certificates dated 20 February 2024 extends the same arrangement to three additional plants: Herbalife Innovative Manufacturing in California, Aminolabs in Germany and PharmaChem Laboratories in New Jersey. Those lines are included in the tables below and marked with their document number.

Which certified products are sold in the UK

This is the table most readers are looking for: the products stocked in this shop that appear on a halal certificate, with the certificate line and product code that covers each one.

The complete certified list, plant by plant

Every product line named across the certificate set is reproduced below, grouped by the manufacturing plant on each document. Names are given as they appear on the certificate, which is why several differ from the retail names used in the UK.

What the certificates do not cover

The most important sentence in this guide is also the one most often skipped elsewhere: a product being absent from these certificates does not mean it is not halal. It means no certificate covering that product appears in this document set, which can happen for reasons unrelated to the ingredients.

• The plant was never submitted for audit. Halal certification is voluntary and paid for by the manufacturer, site by site. A facility producing entirely compliant products can simply have no certificate.
• The product launched after the audit. Formula 1 Salted Caramel, Dubai Style Chocolate, Strawberry Watermelon and the Mango Dragon Fruit tea are not named on any certificate in this set.
• The pack size differs. A 780 g canister carries a different product code from the 550 g canister of the same flavour, and only the coded size is covered.
• Cosmetics are a separate category. The Herbalife SKIN and HL/Skin ranges are not covered by these food certificates, and Herbalife’s own product information states the HL/Skin range is not halal certified.

Products stocked in this shop that do not appear on any halal certificate in this set include Xtra-Cal, Microbiotic Max, Immune Booster, Phyto Complete, Active Mind Complex, Herbalifeline Max, Collagen Skin Booster, Protein Bake Mix, the Protein Bars and Protein Chips, High Protein Iced Coffee, the Formula 1 Express meal bars, and most of the Herbalife24 range including CR7 Drive, Hydrate, Prolong, Restore, Creatine+ and the Achieve Bars. Many of these do appear on the kosher certificate, which is a broader document — see the kosher section below.

Where a product genuinely carries an ingredient that would fail a halal assessment, that is a separate matter with a documented answer, and it applies to exactly one part of the range.

Herbalife Gels and gelatine

The reason is worth understanding, because it explains most gelatine questions across the supplement industry. Gelatine is made from the collagen of animal hides and bones. Bovine gelatine does not come from a prohibited animal, but its halal status still depends on how the source animal was slaughtered. Without a certified halal slaughter chain behind the raw material, bovine gelatine cannot be declared halal, which is precisely the position Herbalife describes for the Gels line.

This is also why format is the first thing to check on any supplement. Powders, tablets and drink concentrates rarely contain gelatine. Chewable gels, softgels and capsule shells frequently do.

Herbalife kosher certification

Herbalife also holds kosher certification, issued separately and by a different authority. The letter comes from the Lakewood Kashrus Organization in Lakewood, New Jersey, signed by Rabbi Yosef Tesler as Administrator with Rabbi Yitzhak Abadi as Halachic Authority, and certifies the listed products as Kosher and Pareve under Lakewood Kashrus supervision.

The kosher document is far broader than the halal set: 23 pages and 869 numbered product lines, against 90 lines on the halal certificates. Products stocked in this shop that appear on the kosher list but not on any halal certificate include Xtra-Cal, Phyto Complete, Active Mind Complex, Herbalifeline Max, Protein Bake Mix, Protein Drink Mix Vegan Vanilla, High Protein Iced Coffee, the Barbecue Protein Chips, the Achieve Bars, Herbalife24 Creatine, Hydrate, Prolong and Restore, and the Formula 1 Express meal bars.

How to check any product yourself

Because certification is granted product by product, the reliable approach is to check the individual item rather than the brand. Four steps cover almost every case.

• Match the product code, not just the name. The code on the certificate ties to one flavour and one pack size. A different size of the same flavour is a different line.
• Read the full ingredient list. Every product page in this shop publishes the complete ingredient list from the official label. Gelatine, carmine (E120), shellac (E904), L-cysteine and mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are the entries that most often need a source check.
• Use the vegan list as a shortcut. A product certified vegan contains no animal-derived ingredient at all, which removes gelatine and every other animal-source question in one step. The Herbalife vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free list sets out which products qualify.
• Ask for the certificate if you want it in writing. For any product code in the tables above, the certificate document can be requested before you order.

Shop the certified products

The products below all appear by product code on the IFANCA and HFCE certificates reproduced in this guide.

Frequently asked questions