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To: null and void

My understanding is that you can get Kosher corn syrup, but that no corn product is Kosher for Passover, a stricter standard. The rules may be different for Sephardic Jews.

“In the Ashkenazi tradition there are additional foods that are usually forbidden during Passover. These foods are called “kitniot” (pronounced kit-neeh-oat) and include: rice, millet, corn and legumes like beans and lentils. These foods are off limits because the rabbis determined they violated the principle of ma’arit ayin.”
http://judaism.about.com/od/holidays/a/What-Is-Kosher-For-Passover.htm


58 posted on 08/23/2015 4:25:03 PM PDT by PAR35
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Ah! Interesting! Even though corn (Zea mays, not "corn" [grain] in the British sense) was unknown in the Old World, corn flour is too similar to wheat, barley, spelt flour so the Rabbis decided to er on the side of caution.
59 posted on 08/23/2015 4:38:48 PM PDT by null and void (Send them all back!)
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