Than fruit jelly is useful

Fruit jelly is a sweet which is loved by both adults, and children. It is considered that because of low caloric content it does much less harm, than other sweets — if it is made of quality products. But before hurrying in shop, it is worth being convinced whether this is true.

Caloric content

Fruit jelly is the jellylike confectionery made from the fruit or berry puree cooked in sugar.

Depending on what ingredients are a part of sweet, there will be different also indicators of its caloric content. The lowest it at the product prepared from natural components with addition of thickeners of plant origin.

The fruit jelly made with own hand in house conditions will have the smallest caloric content.

For example, 100 g (half-glass) of a product which 3 apples, 1 tablespoon of gelatin or pectin will enter are a little cinnamon, will contain 60 kcal. 300 g of pineapple and 20 g of gelatin will leave fruit jelly with a caloric content of 65 kcal.

Whether you know? The word fruit jelly is formed from the Ancient Greek words memelemenos — diligently, carefully, and мелопс — the having color of apple. The first fruit jelly was cooked in the Middle East and East Mediterranean to keep big harvests of the apples, a quince and other fruit containing pectin and capable to stiffen when cooking up to the dense weight.

Advantage for an organism

Natural fruit jelly contains (in 100 g):

• 0.1 g of proteins;
• 79.4 g of carbohydrates (that makes nearly 40% of standard daily rate for the person);
• 1.2 g of food fibers;
• 18 g of water.

Its structure approximately (can change depending on a look) looks as follows:

• mono - and disaccharides;
• starch;
• organic acids;
• hardware;
• potassium;
• calcium;
• magnesium;
• phosphorus;
• sodium;
• PP, C, B vitamins.

Among ingredients can be:

• fruit juice or puree;
• thickener (agar-agar, pectin, gelatin);
• sugar (fructose);
• citric acid;
• natural dye.

Such ingredients, undoubtedly, bear advantage for a human body. Below you learn what useful properties types of fruit jelly have.

Chewing

Modern gelatin is added to gummies, except jellifying substance. This component does its structure not jellylike, but chewing and elastic. And it adds to delicacy of calories.

Also it includes wax, bee or karnaubsky, or wax and oil mix — the substances protecting fruit-paste sweets from sticking to each other. Such fruit jelly is stored longer, than other versions. Producers most often prefer to produce it in the form of various multi-colored figures. It is convenient when transporting. By the way, the first this product began to be made in the USA where it quickly became popular. It was even entered as additional ingredient into a diet of the military personnel.

Important! Gummies have the largest caloric content among other versions without additives — 340 kcal on 100 g that makes 20% of standard daily rate for the person. People who owing to the desire or medical indications have to watch body weight need to consider it.

For a start we will note that delicacy with chewing structure allows to reduce stress and to reduce risk of development of neurosis as long process of chewing calms nervous system and lightens the mood.

Each person, probably, knows about advantage of fruit juice or puree. If to speak about apple, quince and apricot juice, traditional for production of fruit jelly, then among useful properties which they possess It should be noted such:

• regulation of a metabolism;
• saturation by vitamins and minerals;
• improvement of work of a GIT;
• increase in immunity;
• removal of excess liquid.

The gelatin which is a part of gummies contains animal protein and 18 amino acids. They are useful to mental activity, work of heart and central nervous system, a condition of muscles. Also they improve a metabolism and mobility of joints.

Beeswax helps to heal wounds in a mouth, saves from problems with gums and mucous, cleans teeth. It also positively influences an intestines vermicular movement, normalizes its microflora, cleans an organism.

Karnaubsky wax is a nutritional supplement which is marked as E903. It has natural plant origin and is got from palm leaves. It is applied in confectionery business as a glazirovatel, to a surface covering for the purpose of formation of glossy film. The advantage of this additive is not known, however it is considered hypoallergenic and not doing harm to an organism.

Whether you know? In the XX century instead of natural quality ingredients began to add cheaper and artificial ingredients to fruit jelly. For example: replacement of such amplifier of jellification as fish glue, by starch, reduced the cost of sweets by 300 times.

Fruit jelly on an agar

Agar-agar is a product which is received from red and brown seaweed. In water solution it forms dense jelly. It is often applied in the food industry as natural thickener. The agar represents a product with zero caloric content. Therefore fruit jelly with this ingredient should be chosen to people who watch the body and seek to select the products useful to weight loss. The agar well influences growth of useful bacteria in intestines of the person and maintenance at the appropriate level of a proportion between the necessary and pathogenic microorganisms, constraining development of the last.

Fruit jelly with inclusion of this ingredient is capable:

• to reduce cholesterol level in blood;
• to normalize glucose level;
• it is positive to influence mucous a GIT;
• to normalize acidity of a stomach;
• to bring slags and heavy metals out of an organism;
• thanks to the content in agar-agar of iodine to normalize activity of a thyroid gland;
• to strengthen the immune system.

Whether you know? Fruit jelly is used not only as sweet. The natural product is recommended to workers of harmful metallurgical productions for cleaning of an organism of toxic substances and radionuclides.

On pectin

Pectin — the substance of plant origin having the sticking together properties. In cookery it is used as thickener, clarifier, the stabilizer, a geleobrazovatel. It is marked as E440. Contains in some fruit — in particular, in apples, apricots, a quince. Positive impacts of pectin:

• stabilization of a metabolism;
• cholesterol lowering of the level;
• improvement of a vermicular movement of intestines;
• blood circulation strengthening;
• clarification from harmful elements;
• maintaining bacterial balance in intestines.

It possesses a lung anti-inflammatory and anesthetizing properties. At pectin low caloric content — about 60 kcal on 100 g. Especially this additive is useful to women as it well influences a condition of hair, nails and integuments.

Read about use of pectin in cookery.

Whether it is possible to eat

There are categories of people who by the provision or the available problem with health have to watch accurately structure of the diet not to do harm to the organism. Women in situation, in particular, belong to such categories and at GV, diabetics, a kidney-vetch, the people having gastrointestinal diseases. It is very important to all of them to know about advantage and harm of products which they use.

To pregnant women and when breastfeeding

The natural fruit jelly which does not have synthetic ingredients, pregnant women and the feeding mothers can use and it is necessary. This sweet will affect a condition of the woman positively and will improve her mood. Any substance which could do harm to mother or the kid is not a part of a natural product. The only thing what it is necessary to pay attention to, is on quantity of the used product, it has to be moderate. There is a recommendation of the use no more than 200 g of fruit jelly a week.

Also it is not necessary to eat it in case there is an individual intolerance any making or when the child who is on breastfeeding had an allergic reaction. It is desirable for the given rise women to begin to indulge themselves this sweet not earlier than when the kid is 6 months old.

We recommend to learn what vitamins are necessary for pregnant women.

Products which include synthetic sweeteners fragrances, dyes, are strictly forbidden pregnant women and the feeding women. It can do harm to health of both mother, and the child.

At weight loss

The most high-calorie fruit jelly, respectively, is most of all harmful to a figure. However on a question whether just it is enough to avoid a high-calorific product, it is necessary to answer: if to use fruit jelly in excessive doses, then any of types can provoke adjournment of extra kilos. It is possible not to recover, only using home-made fruit jelly, without sugar and in small quantities. It is better to give preference to the product made with agar-agar or pectin and it is necessary to eat it till a lunch that by the evening it was completely processed by an organism.

Get acquainted with a recipe for gummies in house conditions.

It is recommended to eat several segments before intake of the main food — thus it is possible to achieve a loss of appetite, so, to reduce total number of food.

At diabetes

For diabetics make special fruit jelly — add not sugar, and fructose to its structure. Confectionery with sugar among ingredients is forbidden to use diabetes at the diagnosis.

At pancreatitis, gastritis

In a small amount and the natural fruit jelly made on fructose people to whom diagnoses pancreatitis and gastritis are made can eat. However this permission does not concern those at whom the sharp phase of these diseases is observed. Fruit jelly is not ranked as products which spare a digestive tract therefore it is forbidden to eat it during this period. Again it is possible to regale on sweet only 3 months later after aggravation. To people with the diagnosis pancreatitis and gastritis is allowed to use no more than 4 fruit-paste sweets a day. It is desirable to give preference to sweet with pectin, and it is better to refuse consumption of chewing delicacy. The product with artificial components is forbidden to be used.

Contraindications and harm

The fruit jelly containing natural ingredients does not bear harm.

It is contraindicated:

• in large numbers,
• to the people suffering from excess weight;
• that who has a diagnosis diabetes;
• that at whom the sharp phase of pancreatitis, gastritis, ulcer is observed.

And here the product at which there are artificial fragrances, thickeners, dyes, pectin and other ingredients of chemical origin bears harm to an organism and has a number of contraindications. It cannot be eaten:

• to people who have problems with a GIT, a liver;
• to children up to 3 years;
• to pregnant women;
• to the women who are in the lactation period.

As a result of eating of this sweet at the person can be observed:

• allergic reactions;
• disorders of a GIT;
• caries and other diseases of teeth;
• hypostases.

Some chemical additives, for example, of E 102, E122, can cause hyperactivity in children. That fruit jelly did not do harm to health, it is possible to use it occasionally and no more than 50 g a day. More than 4 g of agar-agar a day provoke development of diarrhea and violation of bacterial balance in intestines. It is recommended not to exceed norm of eating of karnaubsky wax — 7 g a day.

Important! Signs of quality fruit jelly are: transparency, soft color, a neutral smell, not luscious, slightly sourish taste, good deduction of a form, clear split of layers, lack of a crunch at a razlamyvaniye, absence as a part of starch, dyes, fragrances, chemical additives.

So, the natural fruit jelly containing pectin and fruit juice well influences an organism, cleaning it, increasing protective functions of the immune system, improving digestion — and here a product to which artificial ingredients are added, can do it harm. When choosing delicacy it is necessary to take itself for the rule: the list of ingredients is shorter, the it is safer. It is desirable also that substances in structure mostly were natural.