Jam from blueberries, currants, raspberries, lingonberries is a very tasty and healthy food. It should be noted that any jam gets its name based on which component is its basis, that is, it prevails in the composition. The basis for blueberry jam will be blueberries, for currant jam - currant berries.
Berries are consumed fresh, they are used in the preparation of jelly, jam, syrup, and liquor. Harvested for future use in frozen form.
In our article, we will consider the issue of calorie content of berries, about changing the ratio of calories in a product from these berries.
Blueberry fruits are low in fruit acids, but they are rich in vitamin C, magnesium and calcium. Fresh blueberry is considered low-calorie. Calorie content is less than 50 kcal, everyone who thinks about their figure can safely eat these berries.
In currant berries, the content of vitamin C is higher than in blueberries, a large percentage of vitamin E, calorie content at different stages of ripening is from fifty to sixty kcal.
We take a measurement - 100 g of blueberries - and examine it for nutritional value: calories - 44 kcal; proteins - 1.1 g; fats - 0.6 g; carbohydrates - 11 g.
We find out the nutritional value of currant berries: calories - 48 kcal, proteins - 1.0 g, fats - 04 g, carbohydrates - 7.3 g.
The calorie content of jam from any raw material directly depends on the amount of granulated sugar. Sugar is high-calorie, and on one kilogram of any berries they take an average of one and a half kilos of sugar.
The calorie content of jam also depends on the method of preparation, jam can be prepared hot or cold.
The fruits of blueberries and currants (black) are very similar in composition, and recipes for making jam from blueberries and currants are similar.
We begin to prepare a product from blueberries and currants - jam. Hot Jam Recipe:
The berries are carefully sorted, washed in running cold water, allowed to dry. Hot syrup is prepared: three quarters of a glass of water per kilogram of two hundred grams of granulated sugar, put on fire. Gradually, stirring, dissolve the sugar until a clear syrup is obtained. Prepared fruits are dipped in hot syrup and boiled until half ready. To preserve the shape of the berries, jam is best mixed by shaking or shaking the bowl itself, rather than a spoon. A kilogram of berries requires a kilo of two hundred granulated sugar.
The product in the form of jam is ready! We consider the nutritional value of the product from blueberries, for every hundred grams of the product: protein - 0.8 g, fat - 0.4 g, carbohydrates - 55.9 g, water -44.1 g.
The calorie content of blueberry jam is 264 kcal.
The nutritional value of the product from the berries of currant for every hundred grams is: protein - 1 g, fat - 0.1 g, carbohydrates - 73 g.
Calorie jam from currants - 284 kcal.
We make jam in the cold way.
Peeled and washed berries are poured into enameled dishes and crushed. You can crush with a wooden crush, nowadays you can use a blender, then sugar is poured over per kilogram of berries - one and a half kg of sugar. Stir, let it brew and pour it into jars.
The nutritional value of cold-prepared jam is higher. In this way, vitamins and minerals are better preserved, but the calorie content of jam is also increased.
The calorie content of the jam will be less if the berries are cooked without sugar. Put prepared berries in jars. Place the jars in a wide pot with a thick bottom, in a water bath, as the berries settle, report the berries to the jar until the jar is full. Banks are rolled up with lids and stored in the refrigerator.
The minimum calorie content of jam is achieved when cooking it on fructose, the number of calories in this preparation is reduced by as much as thirty-five percent.