Sugar-free fruit jam

Hi there
This may sound goofy but i really need to know.is there any good fruit jam available in german markets.My family loves to have some toast with jam in breakfast but most of the variety available here has usually fructose or glucose syrup in it.Any suggestion will be appreciated.

Even the so-called diet jams and jellies have this nasty fructose in it. I know because I have fructose intolerance and am always on the look-out to avoid the stuff. Maybe you could look in a health food store, called Reformhaus here. They might have something like that.

any jam made from fruit will have fructose in it, even the low-cal varieties where they don't add extra sugar, like Natreen Fruchtaufstrich.

I know this isn't sugar free, but I use Erdbeer Gelee, made by Schwartau which I bought in real.
Can't see either of those ingredients on the back of it, so looks like it should be ok for you.

http://www.schwartau-extra.de/aktion/mit-liebe-zum-backen/

I know its for baking, but is great on my toast...lol.
hope this helps...Debbie.

If you don't mind me asking, why does it have to be sugar free? Asking for sugar free jam is like trying to find dehydrated water - the sugar is an essential part of the jam, and to take it out would require addition of (probably nastier) chemicals. Good jam should still have lots of fruit in it too so won't that do?

Otherwise you can always puree fruit and use it instead of jam. But then it won't be sweet and also a bit runny.

The "Du Darfst" line of jams are really, really yummy. I can't live without their erdbeer jam!

Here's the site www.du-darfst.de

available almost anywhere and no sugar additives and lots of fruit.

It'll still contain fructose - all fruit does.

You've got a point there

So funny that line about dehydrated water. Actually, I'm struggling too to find a jam that does not have any added sugars so I find this thread timely. It's the high fructose corn syrup and other kinds of natural and synthetic added sugars that I avoid like the plague. It's only because I haven't found one that I don't eat jam at all.

There are brands in the states for instance, a brand called All Fruit that has just that, all fruit. Although fruit does have natural sugars I try to avoid any products with added sugars, as I'm sweet enough .

No seriously, those added sugars make the jam very high glycemicly and that's just not good for my waist weight management program. Synthetic or just plain old sugars for me are not a part of my daily diet.

they have to add a certain amount of sugars to the fruit otherwise you won't get a jam but a runny mush. The low-cal varieties simply reduce the amount of added sugars to an absolute minimum required.

but isn't a jam - fruit cooked with sugar and perhaps a bit of water - isn't that precisely what jam is? Perhaps like osmachar suggested - you should go for pureed fruit?!

you can make your own using fruit, gelatin and artificial sweetener but don't expect it to set like a jam, it would be much runnier.

Add gelatine or starch to make it thicker...

still won't set like a proper jam with sugar, in my experience.

Actually, it is the natural Pectin that acts as the setting agent in Jam and Marmalade. You were probably using sugar with added pectin.

I made marmalade last year with no added sugar at all - just plenty of orange peel added to the mix to help with the setting process...

Alton Brown puts quite a bit of sugar in his blueberry jam recipe. It's explained thusly:


So making jam the "natural way" definitely requires sugar. There's still no excuse for garbage like high fructose corn syrup, though.

Stute doesn't have added sugar or sweeteners and I'm pretty sure I've seen it on sale here! It's diabetic jam & I think they use fruit juice or something as a sweetener instead...

Allos

organic

If you use Pectin or gelatine to set a 'jam' then it isn't a jam but a conserve. To make a 'jam' you have to add sugar, which does two things - it sets the mixture a bit firmer and preserves the fruit. I didn't Google to see if this pedantry is correct but it's what's always used in our family.

For the time you spend searching for a commercial brand of jam you could easily make your own it's very simple -
1. Buy as much fruit as you need, pick your own is fun in summer too especially with children.
2. Clean it, dry excess water off, cut into 1-3cm bits or leave whole if you prefer, empty into a big pan with a heavy base
3. Add as much sugar, or as little, as you want. More sugar means sweeter, firmer jam that will stay good longer and may not even need keeping in the fridge.
4. Heat gently until sugar melted and the fruit is going mushy
5. Increase temperature and boil for a while essentially until the fruit takes on the consistency you want, cool, put in clean jars.

If you want really set firm jam then it's necessary to have about 50-50 fruit-sugar mix and boil a bit hotter, but any mixture will become a jam. I do this from time to time with strawberries and it's great. Never bother measuring or weighing anything, you simply can't go wrong and you get exactly what you're after.

Edit: Of course this isn't 'sugar free' but it's free from all artificial crap and despite a few calories is about as healthy as it gets.

You can find an Italian brand "Le conserve della nonna" in any Italian supermarket

Most of them are sugar-free