Daily Halacha - Is It Permitted to Squeeze Fruits Over Food?
Essential halachic guidelines for handling fruit juice on Shabbat
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If someone made a fruit salad and juice flowed from the fruits, is it permissible to drink it?
Liquids that flowed from olives and grapes are forbidden to drink. Liquids that flowed from other fruits, such as oranges and the like, if they were brought into the house for eating purposes, are permitted to be drunk even on Shabbat itself (Shulchan Aruch 320, 1).
Therefore, one who cuts a fruit salad and has liquids remaining on the plate that flowed from the fruits he cut is permitted to drink them. However, if one only cut grapes, it is forbidden [Chazon Ovadia p. 145].
Is it permissible to squeeze fruits over food?
It is permitted to squeeze even a cluster of grapes over food, provided that the liquid is intended to enhance the food or is absorbed and mixed into the food. If most of the liquid is absorbed into the food, this is sufficient (Shulchan Aruch 320, 4, Yabia Omer 8, 36).
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