Q. If one was making a bracha on raw broccoli in front of some friends and they had a debate over whether it should be ha’adama or shehakol. They said there used to be the same shailah on carrots but now most people eat raw carrots so it’s correct to say ha’adama. Does it matter if one eats this regularly?

A. Vesein Brocho (p. 400) rules that zucchini (squash) since it is eaten in our times and countries also raw, the brocho should be Bore P’ri Hoadomoh.
The same applies, he adds, to broccoli. However it has to be well washed and inspected for likely insects.

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit’a and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a.