Brachot On Foods That Start With The Letter B: Difference between revisions

|   If ice cream and banana eaten on same spoonful || Shehakol (see footnote)    || Borei Nefashos

|   If ice cream and banana eaten separately  ||  ||  

|     On Banana || HaAdama || Borei Nefashos

|     On Ice Cream || Shehakol  || Borei Nefashos<ref>Halachos of Brachos (Rabbi Bodner, chap 4, pg 61-8) writes that in order for one to make one Bracha on a mixture of two foods it must be considered a single physical mass (by having small pieces mixed together so that the ingredients would be eaten together in a single spoonful) or be cooked or baked together. He continues, that when determining the bracha on a mixture of food, if there is grain flour that was cooke dit's automatically Mezonot, if there's one food that's primary and the others enhance it, the bracha is made on the primary food, and if there's no grain flour or primary ingredient, the bracha is made upon the majority ingredient. Laws of Brachos (pg 207-227) seems to agree on the above set of laws. Therefore, in his Halachos of Brachos Handbook (pg 13) he writes that in general banana split is eaten primarily for the ice cream and the fruit is only meant as an enhancer and so the bracha would be Shehakol. Laws of Brachos (Rabbi Forst, pg 359) writes simply that on banana split one should make two brachos, HaAdama on the banana and Shehakol on the ice cream. </ref>