Purpose The purpose of this study is to introduce a framework that helps Muslims to determine whether a food can be consumed. It can complement existing Halal food classification services having a difficulty of constructing Halal food database. Design/methodology/approach The proposed framework includes two components. First, OCR(Optical Character Recognition) technique is utilized to read the food additive information. Second, machine learning methods were used to trained and predicted to determine whether a food can be consumed using the provided information. Findings Among the compared machine learning methods, SVM(Support Vector Machine), DT(Decision Tree), and NB(Naive Bayes), SVM with linear kernel and DT had excellent performance in the Halal food classification. The framework which adopting the proposed framework will enhance the tourism experiences of Muslim tourists who consider keeping the Islamic law most importantly. Furthermore, it can eventually contribute to the enhancement of smart tourism ecosystem.