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I was always bothered by the fact that some Pesach food (cookies and the like) looks very real, almost like the original.

Are there any authorities who have taken this as an actual issue? Isn't it possible to have an understanding of the talmudic principle taam k'ikar that it applies to that case?

I am aware that one could easily differentiate and say that taam k'ikar applies only when it actually comes from that same exact material, but still.

Are the Rishonim speaking out this distinction? Are there talmudic precedents of similar food substitutes where it is mefurash that they are not subject of taam k'ikar?

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    Isn’t there a fish that tastes like pork that is presented in the gemara? Medrash? as a good thing, an expression of the breadth of hashems creation. – mroll Apr 18 '22 at 01:20
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    @mroll "Isn’t there a fish that tastes like pork that is presented in the gemara"? Yes, there is: the [brains of a] shibuta fish. More generally, chullin 109b brings, "אמרה ליה ילתא לרב נחמן מכדי כל דאסר לן רחמנא שרא לן כוותיה" ("Yalta said to [her husband] Rav Naḥman: Now [as a rule, for] any [item] that the Merciful One prohibited to us, He permitted to us a similar [item]"), and lists examples for this rule. – Tamir Evan Apr 18 '22 at 03:49
  • Similar. – msh210 Apr 18 '22 at 09:18
  • Cookies aren't inherently chametz (there's no rising/fermentation), so it's no surprise that you can manufacture them for pesach. Find me imitation sourdough bread that's KP and we'll talk. – Double AA Apr 18 '22 at 15:03
  • See Rashi Chulin 98b ד"ה לטעם, and Sefer Hachinuch mitzvah 368. – Shmuel Koppel Aug 07 '22 at 19:26

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