{"id":87,"date":"2013-01-22T08:12:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T08:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/?p=87"},"modified":"2025-05-02T18:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T18:21:12","slug":"kitniyot-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/guidelines\/food-items\/kitniyot-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitniyot List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The following are considered <a title=\"What is Kitniyot?\" href=\"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/articles\/what-is-kitniyot\/\">Kitniyot<\/a>:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul style=\"column-count: 3\">\n<li>Beans<\/li>\n<li>Buckwheat<\/li>\n<li>Caraway<\/li>\n<li>Cardamom<\/li>\n<li>Chickpeas<\/li>\n<li>Corn<\/li>\n<li>Edamame<\/li>\n<li>Fennel Seeds<\/li>\n<li>Fenugreek<\/li>\n<li>Flaxseed (Linseed)<\/li>\n<li>Green Beans<\/li>\n<li>Hemp Seeds<\/li>\n<li>Lentils<\/li>\n<li>Millet<\/li>\n<li>Mustard<\/li>\n<li>Peas<\/li>\n<li>Poppy Seeds<\/li>\n<li>Rapeseed<\/li>\n<li>Rice<\/li>\n<li>Sesame Seeds<\/li>\n<li>Sorghum Seeds<\/li>\n<li>Soybeans<\/li>\n<li>Sunflower Seeds<\/li>\n<li>Teff<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The following are not considered <a title=\"What is Kitniyot?\" href=\"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/articles\/what-is-kitniyot\/\">Kitniyot<\/a>, but may require special checking:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul style=\"column-count: 3\">\n<li>Anise<\/li>\n<li>Carob<\/li>\n<li>Chia Seeds<\/li>\n<li>Coriander<\/li>\n<li>Cottonseed<\/li>\n<li>Cumin<\/li>\n<li>Guar Gum<\/li>\n<li>Locust Bean Gum<\/li>\n<li>Safflower<\/li>\n<li>Saffron<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The following may be Kitniyot and are therefore not used:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amaranth<\/li>\n<li>Peanuts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What is Kitniyot? Read more <a title=\"What is Kitniot?\" href=\"https:\/\/oukosher.org\/passover\/articles\/what-is-kitniyot\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following are considered Kitniyot: Beans Buckwheat Caraway Cardamom Chickpeas Corn Edamame Fennel Seeds Fenugreek Flaxseed (Linseed) Green Beans Hemp Seeds Lentils Millet Mustard Peas Poppy Seeds Rapeseed Rice Sesame Seeds Sorghum Seeds Soybeans Sunflower Seeds Teff The following are not considered Kitniyot, but may require special checking: Anise Carob Chia Seeds Coriander Cottonseed Cumin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":2291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-items"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.9.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What Foods are Kitniyot: A Kitniyot List - OU Kosher Passover<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On Pesach the Ashkenazi custom is not to eat legumes. 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