"No Sugar Added" Suspicions

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Registered: 08-07-2007
"No Sugar Added" Suspicions
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Wed, 09-19-2007 - 2:19pm

On our recent trip to Michigan to see DH's family, we bought some "No Sugar Added" Cherry Jam at the landmark restaurant The Cherry Hut.  This morning I had a big spoonful of it on my cottage cheese and it was so good that I got suspicion and did what I should have done before I bought it: I read the labei.  The ingredients were: cherries, apple pectin and grape juice concentrate. 


Am I correct in assuming that "apple pectin" and "grape juice concentrate" are just ways of making sugar sound healthier?  I sure hope that I am wrong, but that jam was just too good to be legal!

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Wed, 09-19-2007 - 5:44pm

I'm not sure about the pectin, but it does sound like the grape juice concentrate would contain sugar, though it may just be the natural sugars from the grapes. I know that when I made my own jam this summer, I found sugar-free pectin.

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