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8. Foods which appear similar to meat and milk:
Almond Milk: It is forbidden to cook [or eat] almond milk with meat due to Maras Ayin unless one places almonds by the food. [However, Bedieved, or in a case that almonds are not available, according to some opinions one may be lenient if the mixture is not cooked together, but rather eaten together cold.] It is disputed whether one may cook women’s milk with poultry. See Halacha 7D for the full details of this subject.
Breast milk: It is forbidden to cook or eat human milk [breast milk] with meat due to Maras Ayin. If it fell into meat it is nullified with even less than 60x. It is disputed whether one may cook women’s milk with poultry. See Halacha 7E for the full details of this subject.
In a case of need: Whenever a mixture is forbidden to cook because of Maaras Ayin it is permitted to be cooked for the sake of using it as medicine for an ill person. It may likewise be eaten by an ill person if its eating prohibition is merely due to Maras Ayin. See Halacha 5B for the full details of this subject.
| Q&A on Maaras Ayin mixtures May one eat imitation meat products made from soy together with milk or during a milky meal?[1] Yes.[2] However, some Poskim advise leaving the wrapper in the vicinity to show that it is vegetarian. May one eat margarine, Pareve ice cream during a meat meal? Yes.[3] However, some Poskim advise leaving the wrapper in the vicinity to show that it is Pareve. May one cook/eat Pareve milk with meat? One may only do so if he makes sure to leave the container of the milk near the meat.[4] |
__________________________________ [1] Cheishev Haeifod 1:20; Mishneh Halachos 5:97
[2] The reason: As today, all people know that such products are available in Pareve and when something has become a common practice known to all, there is no longer a worry of Maaras Ayin. [See Kneses Hagedola 87:8; Machazik Bracha 87:6; Kaf Hachaim 87:27]
[3] The reason: As today, all people know that such products are available in Pareve and when something has become a common practice known to all, there is no longer a worry of Maaras Ayin. [See Kneses Hagedola 87:8; Machazik Bracha 87:6; Kaf Hachaim 87:27]
[4] Eating Pareve milk with meat is not so common and is thus judged like almond milk.
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