There is nothing wrong with eating fruits that are coated with shellac wax or in which carmine has been used, if it does not cause any harm. If there are traces of insects on the fruit, the fruit may be washed and eaten. If you wash the fruit with soap and water, or something that will dissolve the wax, or you peel the fruit, that is a good idea.

We may conclude regarding these bones that if they have been burned completely and turned into charcoal or ashes, these ashes are pure (taahir) and they do not affect the permissibility of the sugar which is mixed with them during the refining process.

The more correct view is that the basic principle with regard to eating the cheese of the Magians and others is that it is halaal, so long as it does not become prohibited for some other reason, such as the addition of haraam ingredients to it, such as lard (pork fat) and so on.