Q. Mi Querido Rabino. Does one eating a flower as some do in our country have to recite a bracha? What blessing woud one then say?
A. Some flowers are indeed safe to eat, but one must check well and beware since many are highly toxic. One should only eat specific, 100% positively identified species that have been organically grown for culinary use. Also never eat florist flowers or those from roadsides, as they often contain toxic pesticides and other dangerous items.
Some Poskim maintain that if it is a normally eaten item, then it would be hoadama; however if this is unlikely something that most people eat, the bracha would be shehakol. (Bet Horaah – Din). The common answer regarding similar zucchini flowers Shaila is to eat bread and recite Hamotzi and include the zucchini flowers as part of the meal.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Y. Hirshman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu, Horav Kalman Ochs, and Horav Dovid Bartfeld consulting in need Horav Hagaon Rav Yitzchak Berkowitz Shlit’a
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