Blessing over the Minority of Fruit

Question

I ate a fruit salad, the majority of which was of the kind of fruits that require the blessing of 'Borei Pri Ha'etz', and that is the blessing that I recited. At the end, a single banana remained, whose blessing is 'Borei Pri Ha'adamah'. I already finished eating all the fruit whose blessing is 'Borei Pri Ha'etz'. Do I need to recite a blessing now, since I am going to eat the banana separately, or not?

Answer

If a small amount remains, there is no need to recite a blessing over it, and it is exempted by the 'Borei Pri Ha'etz' blessing that you made over the main part of the salad at the beginning. And if a large amount of banana remains, you need to recite a blessing over it. The way to determine this is this: if you would eat the banana by itself and not because it remained on the plate, you need recite a blessing over it.

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