Talmud for Shabbat 7:4

הַמּוֹצִיא תֶבֶן, כִּמְלֹא פִי פָרָה. עָצָה, כִּמְלֹא פִי גָמָל. עָמִיר, כִּמְלֹא פִי טָלֶה. עֲשָׂבִים, כִּמְלֹא פִי גְדִי. עֲלֵי שׁוּם וַעֲלֵי בְצָלִים, לַחִים, כִּגְרוֹגֶרֶת, יְבֵשִׁים, כִּמְלֹא פִי גְדִי. וְאֵין מִצְטָרְפִין זֶה עִם זֶה, מִפְּנֵי שֶׁלֹּא שָׁווּ בְשִׁעוּרֵיהֶן. הַמּוֹצִיא אֳכָלִים כִּגְרוֹגֶרֶת, חַיָּב, וּמִצְטָרְפִין זֶה עִם זֶה, מִפְּנֵי שֶׁשָּׁווּ בְשִׁעוּרֵיהֶן, חוּץ מִקְּלִפֵּיהֶן וְגַרְעִינֵיהֶן וְעֻקְצֵיהֶן וְסֻבָּן וּמֻרְסָנָן. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, חוּץ מִקְּלִפֵּי עֲדָשִׁים שֶׁמִּתְבַּשְּׁלוֹת עִמָּהֶן:

If one takes out straw, (the amount for liability is) a cow's mouthful; pea-stalks, a camel's mouthful [This is larger than a cow's mouthful. And one is not liable with a cow's mouthful of pea-stalks, for they are not fit for a cow.]; grain ears, a lamb's mouthful; grasses, a kid's mouthful. [A lamb's mouthful is larger than a kid's mouthful. Therefore, with grain ears, which are not fit for a kid, one is not liable with a kid's mouthful, but there must be the amount of a lamb's mouthful. With grasses, however, since they are fit for both kids and lambs, he is liable even for a kid's mouthful.] Garlic leaves and wet onion leaves, the size of a fig; dry leaves, a kid's mouthful. [Wet leaves, which are fit for human consumption — the size of a fig; for this is the standard amount for all human food on the Sabbath. But not a kid's mouthful, for wet leaves are not fit for a kid.] And they [animal foods] do not combine with one another, for their amounts are different. If one takes out (human) foods the size of a fig, he is liable; and they [all human foods] combine with one another, for their amounts are the same — except for their peels, their pits, their stalks [the ends of the fruits, which are merely like wood], their subin [the shell of wheat which falls off with pounding], their morsan [which remains in the sifter. Rambam explains in the reverse, that morsan is thicker than and inferior to subin]. R. Yehudah says: Except lentil shells, [which do combine], because they are cooked with them (the lentils), [to exclude the outer shells, which fall off when he makes a pile of them. And the shells of beans, when they (the beans) are wet and cooked in their shells — according to R. Yehudah, they combine with the food to the size of a fig. But not dry ones, for they are not eaten with their shells, looking like flies in the dish. The halachah is not in accordance with R. Yehudah.]

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