When one has multiple foods before him with the same bracha and one is from the Shivat HaMinim (Seven Species), which food should be blessed first?

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Synopsis

The Mechaber (following the Rosh) rules that a food from the Seven Species takes precedence even over a more personally preferred food when brachot are equal. The Rambam disagrees, holding that the currently preferred food always takes precedence.

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