Ha'adamah

Some stuff about the blessing on vegetables by Dina.

Despite its sweet taste and fruity name, pineapple does not grow on a tree.

Although it appears like a grain, quinoa is actually the seed of a plant related to spinach. Since it grows from flowering plant, the blessing is “Ha’adamah.”

Question: What blessings should I say before and after eating rice? Answer: There are different opinions as to which is the blessing to be recited before eating rice: Some halachic authorities say it is mezonot; others say it is ha'adamah; yet others cont...