Apple juice concentrate and grape juice concentrate are very commonly used natural sweeteners. And legally speaking, jams with such sweeteners are free to declare that they have no "added sugar" because they haven't added any sugar as such.
Welcome to the weird world of food processing. You don't want to know. Really. On 4/26/07, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote: [ on 12:17 AM 4/26/2007 ] >which reminds me... the wonders of food processing technology mean >that most dried fruits are actually cranberries. > >apparently they are very cheap to produce in bulk, last forever, >have a chewy "dried-fruit" texture and can be cheaply injected with >colour and flavour to taste/look like dried blueberries or >raspberries or whatever. and maybe they're subsidised, too :-) Various jams and fruit preserves (made mostly in the EU, from what I can see) in the local supermarket which trumpet "no added sugar" on the label are actually sweetened with grape juice concentrate. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
