T&L Mini Guide FINAL

PECTIN CHART

INGREDIENTS WE LOVE Making Life a Little Sweeter

Fruits

Pectin Content Acidity High Medium Low High Medium Low

Tate & Lyle ® Jam Sugar Tate & Lyle ® Preserving Sugar

Blackcurrants Crab apples Cranberries

Tate & Lyle ® Preserving Sugar Tate & Lyle ® Preserving Sugar goes perfectly with a variety of fruits to create your favourite marmalades, chutneys and jams. Larger, slower dissolving crystals reduce stirring, prevent burning and produce less froth during boiling. There’s no added pectin, so Tate & Lyle ® Preserve Sugar is best used with fruits containing high pectin levels. Tate & Lyle ® Jam Sugar Tate & Lyle ® Jam Sugar works as a natural preserving agent and flavouring during jam making. Added pectin helps ensure a perfect set when using low pectin fruits like strawberries or cherries. 1 kg Tate and Lyle ® Jam Sugar + 1 Kg fruit = easy and delicious homemade jam!

Gooseberries Plums (unripe) Quinces Red & white currants Citrus fruits Cooking apples Apricots Cranberries Grapes (unripe) Loganberries Medlars Morello cherries

Plums (ripe) Raspberries Blackberries Blueberries

Wild Blackberries Cherries (dessert) Figs Grapes (ripe) Melons Nectarines Peaches Pears Rhubarb Strawberries

Quality of Produce You may find it a little unusual that we want to talk about storing fresh produce in a preserving mini guide! But the fresher your produce the better, so it’s important that you use high quality ingredients and store these correctly in order to get the best textures and flavours for your perfect preserve. Of course, some vegetables and fruits keep better than others, we advise carefully selecting your fresh ingredients and keep them in the right environment to prevent them from degrading.

Acid when preserving, aids the process of extracting pectin from fruit. The pectin is essential to your mixture because it helps you reach the required setting point along with stopping the sugar crystallising. You can use this chart to guide you with your recipe ingredients. If you choose a fruit high in pectin you will need Tate and Lyle ® Preserving Sugar. If your fruit is low in pectin the Tate and Lyle ® Jam Sugar will help you to ensure a perfect set.