Smucker joins a growing number of big food companies that have announced plans to eliminate artificial dyes.
I had to check, because I was pretty sure there’s already no dyes in their jam and that is true.
You can make jam easily by boiling 2 cups rinsed and hulled (and cut if you like smaller bits) strawberries with the juice of a lemon and 2 cups of sugar for about 8 minutes, scraping the bottom with a silicone spatula or wooden spoon. It will be a nice bright color without any help. If you’re not proficient with doing sterile jars, store half in the fridge and half in the freezer.
Turns out the dyes are mostly in Hostess baked goods and other companies they’ve acquired.
This is the way. I make a great sweet and sour sauce with frozen cranberries, sugar, a little butter and water. Making stuff at home is so much better tasting, you don’t over eat it and it’s cheaper.
Storebought is fine if you need jam and don’t have time or energy.
But if you aren’t up for eating all of those fresh berries in the fridge before they go bad, there’s a reason it’s called “preserves.” And you can mix different berries, even pitted cherries, or I’ve added a pouch of açai before, it’s all good, just different. If you want it smooth, use a blender or scrape it through a strainer. I’ve subbed Xylitol for the sugar and it works too.
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Yes making jam is easy in a small amount like this, but canning it so it’s shelf-safe is a whole process.
No no. Let them. It’s a problem that’ll sort itself out.
Found jordan_the_stallion8.
Unless they had, like, blue raspberry you don’t really need artificial dyes in jams, jellies, or preserves unless you’re adding a bunch of extra bullshit that overtakes the fruit’s natural color beyond the sugar and pectin.
Nah I’d bet it’s for better sales beyond reasonable shelf life, fight against oxidation discoloration causing a miniscule drop in sales close to the sell by date.
The difference it makes is marginal but when you lead sales in anything, marginal changes are like millions of dollars.
While I support this, my grape jelly is about to look weird.
Companies announcing this like they’re doing it because it’s good when it’s really it’s because of a hair brained mandate by RFK
I mean he’s a crazy nut but I’m kind of behind this one. I do not think we should be dying our food to make it look more palatable
Removing artificial coloring doesn’t mean they’ll no longer be dyeing food, it means they’ll be using bugs (cochineal) and algae to do it, along with other natural dyes.
Yes thank you all this changes is it’ll be harder for brands to produce dues and that cost will be passed onto the customer
If it was just a cost thing I wouldn’t necessarily mind, but it hasn’t been established that natural dyes are always safer than artificial ones. Sometimes taking a lot of a natural thing and concentrating it also concentrates what would otherwise be a low level contaminant that wasn’t concerning, because you’d never consume enough of the non-concentrated thing for it to matter.
Yes that is also a concern, I agree
Haven’t artificial dyes been banned from most countries because they cause cancer and shit? Fuck RFK but this one seems actually beneficial.
Not all artificial dyes. I’m sure some have. And some natural dyes, like logwood, are toxic.
That’s not even remotely true
I think this is great… maybe it’ll cut costs
Unlikely. If it was cheaper to use natural dyes, they’d probably already be doing it.
For the companies, yup. For the consumers, absolutely not. They’ll probably charge even more for the less-adulterated products… Line. Must. Go. Up.
Good point
Excellent news!!!
Now do hfcs.
Why not announce it when you’ve done it? Intent only gets you so far.
Cool, fine by me!
Nothing of theirs comes to mind that you’d even have to dye in the first place, hell half their products could probably be used as a dye.
JM Smucker and JK Simmons need a buddy cop situation
He’s the peanut m&m, so they kinda already did… https://www.mms.com/en-us/mms-candy-flavors/peanut-butter-jelly-mms/ct2329-p.html
this seems like wisdom very few wizards possess… magnificent
Doubt this is gonna lower prices. I’ll still only buy local jams and jellies.
