If someone is eating fruit cocktail with its syrup, a bracha (haeitz) should be made for it during the meal (a bread meal). At times some of the syrup is left over after all the fruit is eaten, should one make a shehakol on the syrup now? It’s not fruit and it’s not part of the seudah.
Answer:
The syrup is a type of “fruit soup” — liquid that has absorbed the taste of the fruit.
Therefore, there is a dispute over the correct berachah: some (the Rosh) hold that the berachah is ha’etz, like the berachah of the fruit, whereas others (Rashba, and others) hold that the berachah is shehakol. This dispute is mentioned by the Shulchan Aruch (202:10).
After a person has made ha-etz, he would therefore not make another berachah on the syrup, but rather consider it included in the berachah on the fruit.
If a person drinks this syrup alone as a dessert, he would indeed, make a shehakol.
