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  • From: "Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>
  • To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Low sugar jams and jellies
  • Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:05:28 -0500

A point of information that most people probably don't know concerns the legal use of the words "jam," "jelly" or "preserves." The Federal Government has definitions for jams, jellies and preserves and using these name descriptions constitutes fraud unless they contain 65% sugar and have a pH of less than 4.2. If these items contain less than the specified amounts, they must be called something else.
One might think the government is sticking its nose in where it doesn't belong but, actually, this is consumer protection because if the sugar content is 65% (or more) and the pH is 4.2 (or lower), harmful pathogens cannot grow in them.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
For jams, jellies & syrups:
www.bberryfarm.com
(877)265-6856 [Store]
(218)831-7018 [My Cell]



  • [NAFEX] Low sugar jams and jellies, Jim Fruth, 08/15/2007

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