Sometimes the fast is broken with
tea and
cake before eating a full meal. A drink of
milk or
juice before the post-fast meal helps the body to readjust and diminishes the urge to eat too much or too rapidly. Customs for the first food eaten after the Yom Kippur fast differ.
Iranian Jews often eat a mixture of shredded apples mixed with rose water called "faloodeh seeb."
Polish and
Russian Jews will have tea and cake.
Syrian and
Iraqi Jews eat round sesame crackers that look like mini-
bagels.
Turkish and
Greek Jews sip a sweet drink made from
melon seeds. Some people start with
herring to replace the salt lost during fasting. North African Jews prepare butter cookies known as
ghribi/
qurabiya ("ribo" among Moroccan Jews) for the meal after the Yom Kippur fast. Among North American Ashkenazi Jews, the custom is to break the Yom Kippur fast with bagels, cream cheese, cucumbers and tomatoes, and lox or whitefish, often followed by coffee and
smetene kuchen (trans. "coffee cake"). Orthodox Jews generally do not eat meat or drink wine at the break-fast after Tisha B'Av because the burning of the Temple on the 9th of Av is said to have continued until noon on the 10th of Av. Even when the 9th of Av falls on
Shabbat and Tisha B'Av is observed on the 10th, wine and meat are customarily still not consumed at the break fast, although in such a case all other
Nine Days restrictions end with the fast. ==In Islam==