Jams / Jellies

A jam, jelly, preserve, fruit butter and spread can be a finished product or an ingredient used in the preparation of food. This topic discusses jams and jellies and similar foods (made of fruit or vegetables), fruit preps any bakery or confectionery fillings—flavors, market trends, technology and processing, standard of identity, ingredients (i.e., juices like strawberry, grape, peach, jalapeno, mint, pepper, etc.; use of pectin for gelling, citric or other acid; and sweeteners like sugar or artificial sweeteners).