Q. I'm sensitive to carbohydrates including sugar. One year, when I ate all the matzoh and drank all the Grapevine juice, I got so sick that I couldn't make it through the seder. I have since learned that I can dilute the grape juice and eat less matzoh but don't feel well afterwards.
There is a health product that I take during the year that is made of white kidney beans that neutralizes the reaction. It is gluten free made, in a vegetable based capsule with vegetarian magnesium stearate and silica, and those are the only ingredients. I know that as an Ashkenazi Jew, I am not supposed to eat kitniyos but I imagine that for health reasons it could be permitted, providing the other ingredients are okay. Is that correct and can I take this product over Pesach?
A. Mishna Berura (453: 7) permits eating Kitniyos for the ill (See also Chayye Adam (127: 7).
Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is similar.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit'a
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