Posted by Zolly | Under Nutrition
Monday Mar 1, 2010
See the nutrition facts label
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Alejandr:
because most jellies are made of: some fruit juice, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, fruit pectin, citric acid, and sodium citrate. OK what these corn syrups are, are extra-refined sugars that are not good for the body. The fruit juice comes from fruit that was not “pretty” enough to sell at the supermarkets, so these companies blend them into juice. Then they add a bunch of sweeteners to make it sweet and then pasteurized. What the pasteurization process is, is a procedure where the juice is heated to 220* F for 30 minutes. This kills all the living enzymes in the juice which supply it with most of the nutrients. All jellies are going to have terrible nutrition facts. The healthies type of jelly you could buy is an organic jelly made with organic fruits, organic acai berry, and organic raw cane sugar. The acai berry is a natural miracle, it is one of the most powerful anti-agers and anioxidants in the world.
March 1st, 2010 | 6:32 pm
Noah:
Jelly is made with Fruit Juice, sugar and pectin. The majority of the jelly is the sugar – which doesn’t contain any vitamins. And just plain fruit juice, unless it is orange juice, doesn’t contain a ton of vitamins unless it is fortified.
Also – the manufactures aren’t allowed to list vitamin content if it is under a certain amount per serving. So jelly doesn’t have a lot of vitamins to begin with – and when you are looking at a serving size of one tablespoon – the vitamin content is too little to print.
If you could get the actual raw data on it and look at a larger quantity – you would see it has some vitamins in it.
March 2nd, 2010 | 12:28 am
Jeff:
On the bright side, jams and jellies, on a tablespoon-for-tablespoon basis have about half the calories of butter (or margarine). For instance, a tablespoon of butter is loaded with 102 calories, not to mention 12 grams of fat, 7 grams of saturated fat and 31 milligrams of cholesterol.
A tablespoon of you typical jelly has 51 calories and no fat or cholesterol.
March 2nd, 2010 | 6:17 am
Tipsymcs:
Vitamins are destroyed easily and so are most likely lost in the process of making the jellies!
because most jellies are made of: some fruit juice, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, fruit pectin, citric acid, and sodium citrate. OK what these corn syrups are, are extra-refined sugars that are not good for the body. The fruit juice comes from fruit that was not “pretty” enough to sell at the supermarkets, so these companies blend them into juice. Then they add a bunch of sweeteners to make it sweet and then pasteurized. What the pasteurization process is, is a procedure where the juice is heated to 220* F for 30 minutes. This kills all the living enzymes in the juice which supply it with most of the nutrients. All jellies are going to have terrible nutrition facts. The healthies type of jelly you could buy is an organic jelly made with organic fruits, organic acai berry, and organic raw cane sugar. The acai berry is a natural miracle, it is one of the most powerful anti-agers and anioxidants in the world.
Jelly is made with Fruit Juice, sugar and pectin. The majority of the jelly is the sugar – which doesn’t contain any vitamins. And just plain fruit juice, unless it is orange juice, doesn’t contain a ton of vitamins unless it is fortified.
Also – the manufactures aren’t allowed to list vitamin content if it is under a certain amount per serving. So jelly doesn’t have a lot of vitamins to begin with – and when you are looking at a serving size of one tablespoon – the vitamin content is too little to print.
If you could get the actual raw data on it and look at a larger quantity – you would see it has some vitamins in it.
On the bright side, jams and jellies, on a tablespoon-for-tablespoon basis have about half the calories of butter (or margarine). For instance, a tablespoon of butter is loaded with 102 calories, not to mention 12 grams of fat, 7 grams of saturated fat and 31 milligrams of cholesterol.
A tablespoon of you typical jelly has 51 calories and no fat or cholesterol.
Vitamins are destroyed easily and so are most likely lost in the process of making the jellies!
Because jelly is made for taste, Jam is made with botht taste and nutrition
jelly is gelatin which is then horseshoes or hovves or pig hooves.. os not really that nutrites