Is eating French fries flavored with chicken permissible (halal) or forbidden (haram)?

The ruling on chicken-flavored potato chips ("crisps") is determined by examining their ingredients:

- If the flavor is natural (extracted from chicken), then consuming them is forbidden due to the possibility that the chicken was not slaughtered according to Islamic law (dhakāh). The default ruling for meat is prohibition until its lawful slaughter is known, as is the case with the majority of chicken slaughterhouses in the West. - However, if the flavor is artificial, then consuming them is permissible, because artificial flavors are extracted from plants or synthetic materials. The default ruling for these materials is permissibility unless there is evidence to the contrary.