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<font size=3>The article about Kitniyos was written by Rabbi Tzvi Rosen,
Editor Kashrus Kurrents, who took two years of high school math with me
back in the late sixties when I taught math at the Yeshiva High School of
Greater Washington while working on my PhD thesis. Of course, then he was
Harry Rosen! YL<br><br>
At 12:20 PM 4/1/2011, Saul.Z.Newman@kp.org wrote:<br><br>
</font><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=2>from the
2011 online starK guide-- 1= kitnityot shenishtanu
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<a href="http://www.star-k.org/kashrus/star-k11_pesach_directory.pdf">
http://www.star-k.org/kashrus/star-k11_pesach_directory.pdf</a></u></font>
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</font><font size=2>page 51-------</font><font size=3> <br><br>
</font><font size=2>... “kitniyos shenishtanu”, kitniyos that have
been transformed into a new </font><font size=3><br>
</font><font size=2>product. h ese converted food grade ingredients
include citric acid and ascorbic acid </font><font size=3><br>
</font><font size=2>(that have wide food applications), NutraSweet
sweetener, ....</font><font size=3> <br>
</font><font size=2>Th ere are divergent opinions amongst poskim
regarding kitniyos shenishtanu. Some </font><font size=3><br>
</font><font size=2>poskim say these processes have altered the corn out
of a state of kitniyos into a neutral </font><font size=3><br>
</font><font size=2>product. Other poskim remain rm and maintain that
these products still retain their </font><font size=3><br>
</font><font size=2>kitniyos status in spite of the
conversions.</font><font size=3> <br><br>
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</font><font size=2>page 53-----</font><font size=3> <br><br>
</font><font size=2> Products bearing a Star-K P on the label do not
contain kitniyos </font><font size=3><br>
</font><font size=2>shenishtanu (kitniyos that have been manufactured and
transformed into a </font><font size=3><br>
</font><font size=2>new product)</font><font size=3> <br>
</font><font size=2>Anise</font><font size=3> <br>
</font><font size=2>2</font><font size=3> <br>
</font><font size=2>Cumin</font><font size=3> <br>
</font><font size=2>2</font><font size=3> <br>
</font><font size=2>Nutra Sweet</font><font size=3> <br>
</font><font size=2>1<br>
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