Wheat and Grain Products: Difference between revisions

# Hot cereals made from the five grains, farina, and oatmeal have Bracha Rishona of Mezonot and Bracha Achrona of Al HaMichya (even if one makes a meal out of it) <ref>The Gemara Brachot 36b records that everyone agrees that Daysa is Mezonot. Rashi (D"H Daysa) explains that Daysa is (a cooked dish) made from crushed up wheat. This ruling is implied from the Rif (Brachot 25b), Rosh (Brachot 6:7), and Rambam (Brachot 3:4) and codified by Tur and S"A 208:2. Therefore, The Laws of Brachos (Rabbi Forst, pg 272) and Halachos of Brachos (Rabbi Bodner, chap 27, pg 532, and Brachos handbook pg 64) rule that oatmeal and farina is Mezonot and Al HaMichya. Halachos of Brachos adds that even if one makes a meal (Koveh Seuda) out of oatmeal the bracha is still Mezonot. </ref> unless it is made with a watery consistency. <ref>Halacha Brurah 208:5 rules that hot cereal which are made out of the five grains is Mezonot unless it is very thin and watery. This is also the ruling of Vezot HaBracha (chap 12, 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). </ref>

# If the grain is mixed into the food in order to bind the ingredients together the Bracha is not Mezonot. <Ref>S”A 208:3 </ref>

## Licorice is Shehakol because even though it contains flour, the flour is only used as a binding agent. <Ref>Vezot HaBracha (pg 108, chapter 12), http://www.ou.org/torah/tt/5759/eikev59/specialfeatures.htm  </ref>