[Avodah] Peanuts and other Kitnios

[Zev Sero]

Danny Schoemann wrote:

> I see no correlation between: beans, barley, peanuts, mustard and canola
>
> Beans grow in a long pod - many to each pod on bushes or vines
> 
> Barley grows on a stalk - each kernel in it's own bran, in  2, 3 or 6
> rows per stalk.

Barley isn't kitniyot, it's dagan.


> Peanut pods (as R' Dov Bloom pointed out) grow underground in bean-like fashion

But they're still pods, just like pea pods.  Hence the name "pea nuts".


> Mustard grows in flowers with seeds about 1 mm in diameter

The seeds are inside pods.  I know because I once grew some.


Zev, posting from Singapore.

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