The Grains

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The five grains (wheat, barley…)

  1. Halacha treats five types of grain as special. They are wheat, spelt, barley, oats, and rye. If any of these grains were ground up and then made into bread, the appropriate Bracha would be HaMotzei. [1]
  2. If any of the 5 grains were ground up and then made into a cooked dish or a baked good such as cake, the appropriate Bracha would be Mezonot. [2]
    1. Oatmeal, which is cooked grains has the Bracha of mezonot and is followed by Al Hamichya. [3]
  3. Cooked bulgur is one of the five grains and is mezonot. [4]
  4. If the grain remained whole and it was only slightly processed (roasted or toasted) then the Bracha would be Haodoma. [5]
    1. Therefore Granola, which are toasted grains, are Ha'adoma. [6]
  5. Puffed wheat is a matter of controversy whether we considered the process of puffing to be enough to make the grain mezonot or if it still remains hoadoma, see Bracha on smacks.

Exceptions

  1. If the grain is mixed into the food in order to bind the ingredients together the Bracha is not Mezonot. [7]
    1. Licorice is Shehakol because even though it contains flour, the flour is only used as a binding agent. [8]

Questions

  1. What's the bracha on bulgur/bulgar? see above

References

  1. ↑ Vezot HaBracha (pg 102, chapter 12)
  2. ↑ There’s two forms of mezonot: Tavshil Mezonot which requires Mezonot even if one establishes it into a meal (S”A 208:2) and Pas HaBah Bekisnin which requires Mezonot if eaten as a snack and HaMotzei if established as a meal (S”A 168:6; see Pas HaBah Bekisnin).
  3. ↑ Vezot HaBracha (pg 102, chapter 12). Halachos of Brachos (Rabbi Pinchas Bodner, pg 532 and Brachos Handbook pg 64) writes that instant oatmeal which is made into a hot cereal is is Mezonot and Al HaMichya (even if one has a shuir keviyut seudah) unless it's made with a lot of water and it's so thin that it has the form of a drink in which case the bracha would be Shehakol and Boreh Nefashot. [This is based on Shulchan Aruch 208:2 regarding daysa.] This is also the ruling of Vezot HaBracha (pg 107) that oatmeal cereal is mezonot unless it's very thin and pours like a liquid (he adds that if one pushes the grain to one side of the bowl and it remains there as a clump and doesn't spread out right away it's considered a food and not a drink).
  4. ↑ Vezot Habracha (pg 105)
  5. ↑ S”A 208:4
  6. ↑ VeTen Bracha (Halachos of Brochos by Rabbi Bodner, chapter 4, pg 67), Vezot HaBracha (pg 103, chapter 12)
  7. ↑ S”A 208:3
  8. ↑ Vezot HaBracha (pg 108, chapter 12), http://www.ou.org/torah/tt/5759/eikev59/specialfeatures.htm
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