[Avodah] Coca Cola ingredients

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 09:36:42PM -0800, martin brody wrote:
: [RAM:]
:>                                      Do we consider it batel unless the
:> taste-tester says, "I can taste the lard in this"? Or is it NOT batel unless
:> the taste-tester can't tell the difference?

: *The shiur is 1.6%. Chazal knew what they were doing. Very few tastes can be
: identified below that level*

Bitual beshishim is of anything that can't be detected neither by taste
(such as avidah lataamah -- things like spices that have a strong flavor
even in 1:60), nor a davar hamaamid (which changes texture), nor something
that is be'ein, nor anything else our senses can detect. (Nor a complete
beryah nor something that has chashivus. But that's less on-topic.)

Although the impossibility of bitul of a davar hamaamid is miderabbanan.

IOW, RAM is correct -- we require both indetectibility AND 1/60 -- it's
not that one is measured/estimated by the other. Bitul beshishim is an
additional din derabbanan, added lechumrah.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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