[Avodah] diet coke

[Eli Turkel]

> Since a sweetener is made for taste, it is most certainly not batel in any
quantity.

Why not?  Kitniyos is batel berov, not beshishim, so why should taam
be an issue?>>

I understand that it is a mchloket if it batel in rov or 60.
In general I have trouble understanding the whole issue

1. kitniyot to begin with was controversial in the days of the ashkenazi
rishonim
2. Mei kitniyot is another level of chumra. In fact the Rama never
explicitly outlaws it.
It is an inference since he talks about oils dripping
3. Corn was discovered in the Americas and so was clearly not in the
original gezerah
4. According to some shitot kitniyot is batel in rov and as Zev points out
doesnt
depend on the taste
5. kitniyot he-nishtanu is a machloket poskim

so we have a minhag and several layers of machloket. According to any usual
laws of
safek we should be matir. Yet many places look for more and more chumrot.
Personally we use Canola oil (a rabbi from Bnei Brak already told
me he wouldnt eat in my home for many other reasons so this just adds one
more)


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Eli Turkel
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