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Are you allowed to buy cut up fruit from a grocery store? 🍉 🥭
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Bringing back one of the most common summer kashrut questions! Rabbi Eli Gersten, OU Recorder of Psak and Policy, breaks down the answer.
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I went into a store and I see they sell over there
some cut up fruit. Can I buy it? It depends what
type of store it is. If it's like a supermarket,
then we assume they have dedicated knives. They
have a separate fruit section where they cut
up the fruit. They have cut up watermelons,
let's say cut into quarters or other types
of fruits like that. So, those are perfectly
fine to buy. And aside from the fact that
they have dedicated knives, of course,
they cut so many fruit at a time. They cut up
hundreds of watermelons to put out. There's really
no question. If you go into a little store, just
a corner type of store, and they have over there,
you know, maybe one watermelon that they have cut
up into four pieces, then one should not buy it,
it's unclear what type of knife they have.
It could be use the same knife from the deli
counter to cut the watermelons. If the store is
selling things that need to be checked for bugs,
such as, let's say, strawberries and things
like that, we know it's very complicated to
properly wash them. One may not assume that
the supermarket or the store did any such
cleanings and therefore one should not buy
berries, or strawberries, things like that.