{"id":1135,"date":"2013-12-30T16:27:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T16:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2018-03-07T17:52:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T17:52:29","slug":"cocoa-beans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/articles\/cocoa-beans\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocoa \u2013 No Beans About It"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ashkenazic custom does not allow eating kitniyot (legumes) on Passover. Included in this category are rice, corn and all types of beans. So why are we permitted to eat chocolate on Passover? Isn<b>\u02bc<\/b>t chocolate derived from the cacao bean?<\/h2>\n<p>Although they are referred to as beans, cocoa beans are not legumes at all. They are the edible seeds of the cacao fruit, which grows on a cacao tree (Theobroma cacao). To better comprehend why this is significant, one has to understand why legumes were forbidden.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, legumes were grown next to fields of grain. The five species of grain (wheat, barley, spelt, rye and oats), which can become <a href=\"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/articles\/which-foods-are-chametz-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chametz<\/a>, would get mixed up among the beans. Additionally, because beans are used to make breads and porridges in a manner similar to the five grains, using <a href=\"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/articles\/what-is-kitniyot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kitniyot<\/a> on Passover can lead to possible confusion.<\/p>\n<p>These reasons do not apply to <a href=\"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/articles\/choco-rific-choco-licious-choco-kosher\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chocolate<\/a>. Cocoa is not used in a manner similar to flour, nor is it grown, collected and stored in a way that would cause grains to get mixed in. Because cocoa is actually a fruit and not a bean, the restriction of kitniyot do not apply. However, this does lead to an interesting discussion in the rabbinic literature as to why in fact we recite a shehakol on chocolate and not a borei pri ha<b>\u02bc<\/b>eitz (see Minchas Shlomo I:91).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashkenazic custom does not allow eating kitniyot (legumes) on Passover. Included in this category are rice, corn and all types of beans. So why are we permitted to eat chocolate on Passover? Isn\u02bct chocolate derived from the cacao bean? Although they are referred to as beans, cocoa beans are not legumes at all. They are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.9.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cocoa \u2013 No Beans About It - Kosher for Passover<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/articles\/cocoa-beans\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cocoa \u2013 No Beans About It - Kosher for Passover\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ashkenazic custom does not allow eating kitniyot (legumes) on Passover. Included in this category are rice, corn and all types of beans. So why are we permitted to eat chocolate on Passover? Isn\u02bct chocolate derived from the cacao bean? Although they are referred to as beans, cocoa beans are not legumes at all. They are [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/articles\/cocoa-beans\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Passover\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-12-30T16:27:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-03-07T17:52:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/ouwp\/images\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1675079452\/Kosher\/Passover\/cacoa-bean-ou-kosher-for-pesach\/cacoa-bean-ou-kosher-for-pesach.jpg?_i=AA\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"960\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Rabbi Eli Gersten\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Rabbi Eli Gersten\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/articles\/cocoa-beans\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/articles\/cocoa-beans\/\",\"name\":\"Cocoa \u2013 No Beans About It - Kosher for Passover\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-12-30T16:27:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-03-07T17:52:29+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/#\/schema\/person\/c59733f2dc65121c32eda90d2ea500f5\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/articles\/cocoa-beans\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/articles\/cocoa-beans\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/articles\/cocoa-beans\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Cocoa \u2013 No Beans About It\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/\",\"name\":\"Passover\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/product-search\/#s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/#\/schema\/person\/c59733f2dc65121c32eda90d2ea500f5\",\"name\":\"Rabbi Eli Gersten\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/41d8528f07c9005b6fcfab0b01771fff1ab67e6164cc3e2a6c94ff900238ccfb?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/41d8528f07c9005b6fcfab0b01771fff1ab67e6164cc3e2a6c94ff900238ccfb?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Rabbi Eli Gersten\"},\"description\":\"Rabbi Eli Gersten serves as OU rabbinic coordinator and recorder of OU policy.\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Cocoa \u2013 No Beans About It - Kosher for Passover","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/articles\/cocoa-beans\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Cocoa \u2013 No Beans About It - Kosher for Passover","og_description":"Ashkenazic custom does not allow eating kitniyot (legumes) on Passover. Included in this category are rice, corn and all types of beans. So why are we permitted to eat chocolate on Passover? Isn\u02bct chocolate derived from the cacao bean? Although they are referred to as beans, cocoa beans are not legumes at all. They are [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/articles\/cocoa-beans\/","og_site_name":"Passover","article_published_time":"2013-12-30T16:27:41+00:00","article_modified_time":"2018-03-07T17:52:29+00:00","og_image":[{"width":960,"height":640,"url":"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/ouwp\/images\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1675079452\/Kosher\/Passover\/cacoa-bean-ou-kosher-for-pesach\/cacoa-bean-ou-kosher-for-pesach.jpg?_i=AA","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Rabbi Eli Gersten","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Rabbi Eli Gersten","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/articles\/cocoa-beans\/","url":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/articles\/cocoa-beans\/","name":"Cocoa \u2013 No Beans About It - Kosher for Passover","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/#website"},"datePublished":"2013-12-30T16:27:41+00:00","dateModified":"2018-03-07T17:52:29+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/#\/schema\/person\/c59733f2dc65121c32eda90d2ea500f5"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/articles\/cocoa-beans\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/articles\/cocoa-beans\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/articles\/cocoa-beans\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Cocoa \u2013 No Beans About It"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/#website","url":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/","name":"Passover","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/product-search\/#s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/#\/schema\/person\/c59733f2dc65121c32eda90d2ea500f5","name":"Rabbi Eli Gersten","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/41d8528f07c9005b6fcfab0b01771fff1ab67e6164cc3e2a6c94ff900238ccfb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/41d8528f07c9005b6fcfab0b01771fff1ab67e6164cc3e2a6c94ff900238ccfb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Rabbi Eli Gersten"},"description":"Rabbi Eli Gersten serves as OU rabbinic coordinator and recorder of OU policy."}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3165,"href":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions\/3165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}