{"id":22324,"date":"2025-05-25T18:55:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T01:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kosherquest.org\/TEST\/?p=22324"},"modified":"2025-05-25T19:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T02:02:04","slug":"from-the-o-u-kedem-light-grape-juice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosherquest.org\/TEST\/from-the-o-u-kedem-light-grape-juice\/","title":{"rendered":"From The O\/U:  Kedem Light Grape Juice"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"22324\" class=\"elementor elementor-22324\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d2b777c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d2b777c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-feea945\" data-id=\"feea945\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d39c587 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d39c587\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Kedem Lite Grape Juice has become indispensable for many seeking to lower sugar intake while partaking in such Mitzvos as Kiddush and the Arba Kosos.\u00a0 The secret to low-sugar grape juice is to use lower sugar grapes.\u00a0 Kedem Light Grape Juice uses early harvest Concord grapes which are picked at about 11-13 Brix (end harvest concord grapes will reach 18 Brix).\u00a0 Some have questioned whether these grapes are &#8220;boser&#8221; *unripe grapes).<\/p><p>The beracha on boser is &#8220;Ha&#8217;odama (not Ha&#8217;Eitz) and Sharei Teshuva writes that the beracha on juicwe made from boser grapes is Shehakol (not Ha&#8217;Gafen).\u00a0 However, the grapes in question are full sized and purple.\u00a0 They look the same as other ripened Concord grapes and taste less sweet and more tart than regular grapes.\u00a0 The MIshna Berurah writes that once grapes have the appearance of ripened grapes, they are no longer boser.\u00a0 Furthermore, the Levush writes that boser refers to grapes that cannot be made into wine.\u00a0 This does not apply to thee grapes, since they CAN be made into a wine, albeit with lower alcohol level (about a 506%.\u00a0 To lower the sugar more, Kedem Light Grape Juice is also diluted with about 33% water.\u00a0 Therefore, the beracha on Light Grape Juice is borei Pri Ha&#8217;Gafen.\u00a0 It is not recommended to add additional water to Lite Grape Juice.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kedem Lite Grape Juice has become indispensable for many seeking to lower sugar intake while partaking in such Mitzvos as Kiddush and the Arba Kosos.\u00a0 The secret to low-sugar grape juice is to use lower sugar grapes.\u00a0 Kedem Light Grape Juice uses early harvest Concord grapes which are picked at about 11-13 Brix (end harvest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[33,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kosher-updates","category-newsletter-items","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosherquest.org\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosherquest.org\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosherquest.org\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosherquest.org\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosherquest.org\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22324"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kosherquest.org\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22328,"href":"https:\/\/kosherquest.org\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22324\/revisions\/22328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosherquest.org\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosherquest.org\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosherquest.org\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosherquest.org\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}