Editing Kitniyot (section)

==Definition==
Traditions of what is considered kitniyot vary from community to community but generally include [[maize]] (American corn), as well as [[rice]], [[pea]]s, [[lentil]]s, and [[bean]]s. Many also include other legumes, such as [[peanut]]s and [[soy]], in this prohibition.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.kashrut.com/Passover/pesachart/ | title=Why is This Food Different from Other Foods? Kashrus/Passover and Modern Food Processing | publisher=Kashrut.com | access-date=March 27, 2013 | author=Mathes-Scharf, Arlene}}</ref>  The [[Chayei Adam]] considers [[potato]]es not to be kitniyot because they were unknown in the time when the prohibition was created, an opinion followed today by nearly all [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazi]] authorities.<ref name=oukosher>{{cite web|url=https://oukosher.org/passover/articles/what-is-kitniyot/|title=What is Kitniyot? – Passover|date=23 January 2013|work=OU Kosher|publisher=Orthodox Union|access-date=12 April 2017}}</ref>

Some [[Sephardi Jews|Sephardic]] and [[Yemenite Jews]] have not traditionally observed a prohibition on eating kitniyot on Passover, although some groups do abstain from the use of dried [[Pulse (legume)|pulses]] during Passover.

Since wheat flour only becomes ''chametz'' after it is ground and then mixed with water, one might assume that the kitniyot custom does not forbid kitniyot that were never ground or never came in contact with water. By this logic, it might be permitted to eat fresh kitniyot (like whole beans), or processed kitniyot which never came in contact with water (like certain squeezed oils or toasted solids). In fact, Rabbi [[Mordechai Eliyahu]] stated that the "first Ashkenazim in Jerusalem before the establishment of the state allowed fresh legumes and only prohibited dry legumes, but when the students of the Vilna Gaon and Baal Shem Tov came to Israel, they ‘brought with them’ from Europe the prohibition against fresh legumes".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3382886,00.html|title=Revolutionary ruling: 'Yes' to kitniyot on Pesach|date=March 30, 2007|website=Ynetnews|last1=Nahshoni|first1=Kobi}}</ref> Conservative rabbis have ruled to permit fresh kitniyot.<ref>"A Teshuvah Permitting Ashkenazim to Eat Kitniyot on Pesah", Amy Levin and Avram Israel Reisner, [https://www.sefaria.org.il/sheets/30492 source]</ref>

In the 1930s, [[Maxwell House]] coffee hired the Joseph Jacobs advertising firm to market to a Jewish demographic.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/09/nyregion/09haggadah.html |title=Giving a Haggadah a Makeover |last=Berger |first=Joseph |date=April 8, 2011  |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=March 23, 2013}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Levitt|first=Aimee|date=March 26, 2021|title=The Maxwell House Haggadah was a triumph of advertising|url=https://thetakeout.com/history-of-the-maxwell-house-haggadah-passover-seder-t-1846547523|access-date=2021-03-28|website=The Takeout|language=en-us}}</ref> The agency hired a rabbi to research coffee, resulting in a determination that the coffee bean is more like a berry than a bean, thus making it kosher for Passover.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/22/AR2011032202119.html|title=New Maxwell House Haggadah out for Passover|first=Leanne|last=Italie|agency=The Associated Press|newspaper=Washington Post|date=March 22, 2011|access-date=April 12, 2011}}</ref><ref name=":0" />