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What bracha do you make on granola bars?
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Rabbi Eli Gersten, OU Kosher Recorder of Psak and Policy, breaks down the answer.
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Okay, let's see what we got here. What
bracha do you make on granola bars? This
is an excellent question. There are actually
different opinions about this amongst many of
the big poskim. The choices are either to make a
Mezonot or to make a Boreh Pri HaAdamah. If you
view that the grains stick together, if they're
cooked to the point where they fuse and they form
like a cookie-like consistency, then the bracha
would me Mezonot. If the grains stay independent,
then the bracha remains HaAdamah. The bracha
on grains to begin with is a HaAdamah. Only
if it turns into a cookie-type of consistency,
it becomes Mezonot. There are some bars called
soft-baked bars. Some call them breakfast bars,
where they actually, they're made with oats,
but they're not granola bars. And everyone would
agree that they're Mezonot because they have
that cookie-like, you could break it open. You
don't see the grains inside. You might see some,
you know, poking out on the outside.
Those are clearly Mezonot. Rav Belsky,
ZT"L, he held that the bracha was HaAdamah,
because they started out also as HaAdamah,
it remains HaAdamah until the point where
you know otherwise. So, meaning if there's
any question mark as to whether it's Mezonot or
HaAdamah, the proper bracha to make is HaAdamah.