sugarless jam

castleton

Does anyone have a receipt for making a jam without sugar. I am sure that my aunty used to make one. She called it freezer jam.
Heres hoping.Thanks all.

squeaky

Hi,

This may help

Reduced sugar jam recipes

castleton

Thank you these are just what I needed. I'm not very good at searching, but know any questions on here always find an answer.

ceridwen

Borrow this book:

The Superjam Cookbook

by Fraser Doherty

its all sugar-free.

Basically sugar-free seems to boil down to using fruit juice concentrate instead from what I can see.

It is possible to get totally sugar-free ones - and they will keep for months - but I have been unable to get the recipe from the person I get some from.

Mojisola

ceridwen wrote: »

Borrow this book:

The Superjam Cookbook

by Fraser Doherty

its all sugar-free.

Basically sugar-free seems to boil down to using fruit juice concentrate instead from what I can see.

It is possible to get totally sugar-free ones - and they will keep for months - but I have been unable to get the recipe from the person I get some from.

This jam won't be sugar-free - the sugar will come from the fruit juice concentrate instead of a packet of white granules.

ceridwen

...and the "I aint no scientist" thing...but 'tis my understanding that its sugar per se thats The Big Bad Guy and other things accounted as a form of "sugar" arent in the same boat??

Worn my googling fingers out for t'day to go off checking on this one...

EDIT; Did go and check a bit on this and I've stashed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?vdBnniua6-oM

(wishes I hadnt done that now - as spotted a side clip on YouTube with a title very depressing to me personally - and will have to go and have a quick checksee to see if it means me....). Awmegawd - a Professor at Harvard doing it - sounds authoritative...doesnt have nerve to watch it....I'm not that brave...

FURTHER EDIT: that link didnt seem to work - so try "You Tube" + "Sugar: The Bitter Truth".

Mojisola

Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [7/2009] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 16717]

The sugar that's in fruit juice is fructose.

rachbc

Jam can't be sugar free - It can have no added sugar but there is naturally occuring sugar in fruit. Some people seem to be off the view that cos its fruit derived fructose os somehow healthier - but in terms of calories and tooth decay its all the same. And as above there is increasing evidence that fructose can be worse than sucrose

notatvstar

... ahem.

As a boffin - I was already led to believe that glucose was the nasty... This has something to do with the Krebs cycle.

<I'll get my (lab) coat...>

My boffery is pharmacology, although I also 'do' biochem and onc' - if pushed some physiology but please don't ask me to explain the kidney.

misskool

notatvstar wrote: »

... ahem.

As a boffin - I was already led to believe that glucose was the nasty... This has something to do with the Krebs cycle.

<I'll get my (lab) coat...>

My boffery is pharmacology, although I also 'do' biochem and onc' - if pushed some physiology but please don't ask me to explain the kidney.

Sorry?

Er...The Krebs cycle (the citric acid cycle) metabolises all sorts (carbohydrates, proteins and fat) to produce energy.

The glucose cycle controls the homeostasis of blood glucose.

As should be remembered from any first year biochemistry course.

ceridwen

notatvstar wrote: »

... ahem.

As a boffin - I was already led to believe that glucose was the nasty... This has something to do with the Krebs cycle.

<I'll get my (lab) coat...>

My boffery is pharmacology, although I also 'do' biochem and onc' - if pushed some physiology but please don't ask me to explain the kidney.

Well...if you find a handy link 'twould be useful if you would post it up here for us purlease:)....as I've just followed my (non-scientific) habit of "I have read the various info....made up my mind on my conclusion...and then because it was all so technical for me I promptly forgot all those there scientific facts why I made the decision I did". Serves me fine personally - as I always remember my final conclusion I came to - so can act accordingly. But - can I haul up those facts that I drew said conclusion from - errr...thats a bit more difficult...:o

So - in this case I have read the stuff that says "glucose and other 'sugars' are NOT the same - glucose is the Bad Guy" - but then forgotten where I read all that there research....ahem...