Processed fruits and vegetables: Difference between revisions

# The Bracha on a jam or jelly is the same as the actual fruit only if peices of the fruit are recognizable in it. Otherwise, the bracha is [[shehakol]].<ref>The book Laws of [[Brachot]] (by Rabbi Binyomin Forst) in the index writes that for apricot jam- there's a [[shehakol]] if there's no solid pieces in the jam, and HaEtz if there's solid pieces in it. However, by [[Etrog]] Jam he writes simply that it's HaEtz. The book VeZot HaBracha (by Rabbi Alexander Aryeh) writes that for [[Etrog]] as a jam the bracha is HaEtz only if it has pieces of fruit it in that are recognizable. It seems to me that the bracha on jam is always dependent on whether you recognize the pieces in it- there being no difference between [[Etrog]] and any other fruit. It's possible that the [[etrog]] jams are usually chunky and other fruits sometimes have chucks and sometimes not. </ref> According to Sephardic poskim, the beracha remains the same even if there are no recognizable pieces.<ref>S"A O.C. 202:7, Yalkut Yosef ibid., Halacha Berurah ibid.</ref> According to some Ashkenazic poskim, if the Bracha was previously HaEtz, it becomes HaAdama, and if it was previously HaAdama, it remains the same. <ref>R' Joseph B. Soloveitchik, R' Hershel Schachter ([http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/750616/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Brachot_Ha%E2%80%99nehenin in Brachot Ha'nehenin (31:15)], OU Document X-18, [https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzQ0nNsuWg_RaElhQm9XZTZfWVU/edit?usp=sharing HalachaDoc LG-A9]</ref>