Halakhah for Shabbat 229:1

מותר בקניבת ירק (ואמר רבי חייא בר אבא אמר רבי יוחנן יום כיפורים שחל להיות בחול) מפצעין באגוזים ומפרכסין ברימונים מן המנחה ולמעלה מפני עגמת נפש דבי רב יהודה מקנבי כרבא דבי רבה גרדי קארי כיון דחזא דהוו קא מחרפי אמר להו אתא איגרתא ממערבא משמיה דר' יוחנן דאסיר:

the trimming of vegetables is permitted. Nuts may be cracked and pomegranates scraped from the [time of] minhah and onwards, on account of one's vexation.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'grief of the soul'. It would be very vexing if the breaking of the Fast had to be delayed whilst these are prepared (Baal Ha-Ma'or V. Marginal Gloss.; Rashi explains it differently) ');">1 The household of Rab Judah trimmed cabbage. Rabbah's household scraped pumpkins. Seeing that they were doing this [too] early,2 he said to them, A letter has come from the west in R. Johanan's name [to the elect] that this is forbidden.3

Sefer HaChinukh

From the laws of the commandment is that which they, may their memory be blessed, said (Megillah 7b) that anything which is forbidden to do on Shabbat - even though it is not totally work - is forbidden on Yom Kippur. The principle of the matter is, "There is no difference between Shabbat and Yom Kippur except that volitional work on Shabbat is [punishable] with stoning, and on Yom Kippur with excision." And nonetheless, they, may their memory be blessed, permitted to trim vegetables on Yom Kippur from [the time of] the afternoon service and onward, so that it will be found ready immediately on the evening [after it] - which is not permitted on Shabbat. But the people have become accustomed to be strict about the thing and to practice prohibition in the matter, as [on] Shabbat for everything. And the rest of its details are elucidated in Tractate Yoma.

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