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# Grape seed extract made of seeds needs a Hashgacha to ensure it was removed within twenty-four hours sine crushing.<ref>[https://oukosher.org/content/uploads/2013/02/Daf_17-8c.pdf Lo Basi Ela LeOrer: Byproducts of Wine (Daf ha-kashrus Iyar 5769/ May 2009 Vol. 17 / No. 8)]</ref>
# Grape seed extract made of seeds needs a Hashgacha to ensure it was removed within twenty-four hours sine crushing.<ref>[https://oukosher.org/content/uploads/2013/02/Daf_17-8c.pdf Lo Basi Ela LeOrer: Byproducts of Wine (Daf ha-kashrus Iyar 5769/ May 2009 Vol. 17 / No. 8)]</ref>
# Tartaric Acid, a byproduct of winemaking (Tamtzit SheNikrash), is permitted after rinsing off of sediment or waiting twelve months, but nowadays, since it's refined to remove all impurities, is immediately acceptable.<ref>See Shiurei Bracha Yoreh Deah 123:13 about Potassium bitartrate), [https://oukosher.org/content/uploads/2013/02/Daf_17-8c.pdf Lo Basi Ela LeOrer: Byproducts of Wine (Daf ha-kashrus Iyar 5769/ May 2009 Vol. 17 / No. 8)]</ref>
# Tartaric Acid, a byproduct of winemaking (Tamtzit SheNikrash), is permitted after rinsing off of sediment or waiting twelve months, but nowadays, since it's refined to remove all impurities, is immediately acceptable.<ref>See Shiurei Bracha Yoreh Deah 123:13 about Potassium bitartrate), [https://oukosher.org/content/uploads/2013/02/Daf_17-8c.pdf Lo Basi Ela LeOrer: Byproducts of Wine (Daf ha-kashrus Iyar 5769/ May 2009 Vol. 17 / No. 8)]</ref>
# Maga Akum can only prohibit wine, not vinegar, but if the vinegar had been touched while it was still wine, the fermentation does not remove the Issur. Some were concerned that one would mistake vinegar for wine that's still fermenting, but, aside for situations that require heavier safeguards against intermarriage, the halacha assume vinegar is vinegar and not subject to Maga Akum.<ref>Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah 123:6</ref> If the vinegar bubbles intensely when poured, one can assume it has been vinegar for at least three days and any contact with Non-Jews is irrelevant.<ref>Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah 123:7. See [http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=21867&st=&pgnum=108 Shu"t Shema Shlomo (vol 3 Yoreh Deah Siman 6)]</ref> Some claim that modern day vinegar is not the same vinegar as in the times of the Talmud, because even industrial vinegar does not bubble as described.<ref>[https://oukosher.org/blog/consumer-kosher/does-wine-vinegar-present-a-concern-of-stam-yainam/ Does Wine Vinegar Present a Concern of Stam Yeinam? (OU Kosher)]. See also [https://www.star-k.org/articles/kashrus-kurrents/4470/balsamic-vinegar-sour-grapes-or-sour-sweet-success/ BALSAMIC VINEGAR: SOUR GRAPES OR SOUR SWEET SUCCESS (Star-K)] regarding contemporary vinegar production.</ref>
# Maga Akum can only prohibit wine, not vinegar, but if the vinegar had been touched while it was still wine, the fermentation does not remove the Issur. Some were concerned that one would mistake vinegar for wine that's still fermenting, but, aside for situations that require heavier safeguards against intermarriage, the halacha assumes vinegar is vinegar and not subject to Maga Akum.<ref>Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah 123:6</ref> If the vinegar bubbles intensely when poured, one can assume it has been vinegar for at least three days and any contact with Non-Jews is irrelevant.<ref>Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah 123:7. See [http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=21867&st=&pgnum=108 Shu"t Shema Shlomo (vol 3 Yoreh Deah Siman 6)]</ref> Some claim that modern day vinegar is not the same vinegar as in the times of the Talmud, because even industrial vinegar does not bubble as described.<ref>[https://oukosher.org/blog/consumer-kosher/does-wine-vinegar-present-a-concern-of-stam-yainam/ Does Wine Vinegar Present a Concern of Stam Yeinam? (OU Kosher)]. See also [https://www.star-k.org/articles/kashrus-kurrents/4470/balsamic-vinegar-sour-grapes-or-sour-sweet-success/ BALSAMIC VINEGAR: SOUR GRAPES OR SOUR SWEET SUCCESS (Star-K)] regarding contemporary vinegar production.</ref>
# We are stringent to assume liquid from unripened grapes (Boser) is subject to Maga Akum.<ref>Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah 123:8</ref>
# We are stringent to assume liquid from unripened grapes (Boser) is subject to Maga Akum.<ref>Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah 123:8</ref>