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▲ s0rce 10 hours ago

I guess if you just look at the first ingredient but its both obvious there are multiple sources of sugar/simple carbs and that jam is typically very heavily sweetened; this is how it has a long shelf life.

▲autoexec 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Jam is a pretty sweet product, but that doesn't mean I'd expect I'd expect more sweeteners than fruit. A basic recipe for strawberry jam might require a couple pounds of strawberries and a couple cups of sugar. That'd still have a shelf life of a year or more (unopened).

▲marky1991 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

But sugar is literally added to jelly as the preservative, that's why jelly exists to begin with.

For example, the very first recipe for strawberry jelly from some horrible spam recipe site:

2 cups (16 ounces) pure strawberry juice (I used 3 1/2 pounds ripe, fresh strawberries to get this amount of juice) 3 1/3 cups (666 grams) granulated sugar

It's literally more sugar than strawberry juice.

▲cryptonector 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Or maybe you would expect more sweetener. What's wrong with honesty in labeling?