What's the difference between similar looking jams and pulps?
Dec 02, 2024
Jam is the mixture of fruit, sugar and acidity regulator, and the temperature of more than 100 ° C to boil the gel material, also called fruit viar.Jam is also a way to preserve fruit for a long time.
Fruit pulp refers to the fruit or the edible part of the fruit through the beating process to produce juice, unfermented pulp products.
Pulp is divided into the following two categories according to the concentration:
(1) Raw fruit pulp: refers to the use of beating process to process the fruit or the edible part of the fruit into unfermented but fermentable pulp, with the color, flavor and soluble solid content of the original fruit pulp.
(2) Concentrated fruit pulp: refers to the physical method to remove a certain proportion of natural water from the fruit pulp to make a product with the characteristics of the fruit pulp.
| Production technology | Material form | |
| JAM | After the fruit is processed into pulp, it is mixed with sugar and acidity regulator, and boiled/fermented to form a gel substance | A gelatinous substance formed at high temperature or after fermentation |
| PULP | The raw material is pureed, not heated at high temperature, contains juice and is not fermented | A pulpy, unfermented product containing juice |
