Do you need to make a bracha on everything or are there some foods that don’t require one?🤔

There's a question that we get every so often. How do I know if I need to make a braha on this thing? It's a great question. There's two considerations on a food when you would potentially make a braha on it. One is if it provides taste. The other is it provides nutrition. Some people refer to that as providing calories. For example, if a person is thirsty, we're going to look at that as providing taste. Even though water doesn't provide calories. Therefore, when you're thirsty, you would make a brhan water. But if you're just trying to swallow a pill, you would not make a brhan water. That would be something where you're drinking only for taste. Let's say a person doesn't like the taste of broccoli, but the doctor says it's good for him and he's going to eat it for that reason. Even though it doesn't provide a taste he particularly enjoys, but because it's providing nutrients, calories, and beneficial vitamins to the body, he would make a braha on that. So those are going to be the two things that you want to consider when we know if we need to make a brah or not, whether it provides taste or whether it provides nutrition.