Useful properties of berries. Calorie content of jam from them.

Jam from blueberries, currants, raspberries, cowberries is a very tasty and healthy food product. 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 jam from blueberries will be blueberries, for currant jam - currant berries.

They consume berries in fresh form, use them in the preparation of jelly, jam, syrup, liqueur. Prepared for future use in frozen form.

In this article, we will consider the calorie content of berries, the change in the ratio of calories in the product from these berries.

In the fruits of blueberries a low content of fruit acids, but they are rich in vitamin C, magnesium and calcium. Fresh bilberry is considered a low-calorie fruit. Caloric content is less than 50 calories, everyone who thinks about his figure can safely use these berries for food.

In currant berries, the content of vitamin C is higher than in blueberries, a large percentage of vitamin E, caloric content at different stages of maturation ranges from fifty to sixty kcal.

We take the measurement - 100 g of blueberries - and examine it for nutritional value: calories - 44 kcal; Proteins - 1.1 g, fats - 0.6 g carbohydrates - 11 grams.

We learn the nutritional value of currant berries: calories - 48 kcal, proteins - 1.0 g, fats - 04 g, carbohydrates - 7.3 g.

The caloric content of jam from any raw material directly depends on the amount of sugar being poured. Sugar sand is caloric, and one kilogram of any berries is taken an average of one and a half kilograms of sugar.

The calorie content of the jam also depends on the way of preparation, the jam can be cooked in a hot or cold way.

The fruits of blueberries and currants (black) are very similar in composition, and the recipes for preparing jam from blueberries and currants are similar.

We start to prepare a product from berries of a bilberry and a currant - jam. The recipe for jam is hot:

The berries are gently handled, washed in running cold water, allowed to dry. Prepare hot syrup: three quarters of a glass of water for one kilogram of two hundred grams of granulated sugar, put on fire. Gradually, stirring, dissolve the sugar until a clear syrup. In the hot syrup, lower the prepared fruit and cook until half cooked. To preserve the shape of the berries, jam is best mixed with shaking or shaking the basin itself, and not with a spoon. A kilogram of berries requires a kilo of 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: proteins - 0.8 g, fats - 0.4 g, carbohydrates - 55.9 g, water -44.1 g.

Caloric content of bilberry jam is 264 kcal.

The nutritional value of the product from currant berries for every one hundred grams is: proteins - 1 g, fat - 0.1 g, carbohydrates - 73 g.

Caloric content of currant jam is 284 kcal.

We prepare the jam in a cold way.

Peeled and washed berries are poured into enameled pots and pressed. You can crush a wooden crush, nowadays you can use a blender, then fall asleep sugar on the basis of a kilogram of berries - one and a half kg of granulated sugar. Stir, allow to stand and pour into cans.

Nutritional value of jam cooked in a cold way is higher. In this way vitamins and minerals are better preserved, but the calorie content of the jam increases.

The calorie content of the jam will be less if the berries are cooked without sugar. Prepared berries to spread on the banks. Banks put in a wide pan with a thick bottom, a water bath, as settling, berries to report to the bank, until the bank is complete. Banks roll up and store in the refrigerator.

The minimum calorie content of jam is reached when cooking it on fructose, the amount of calories with this cooking is reduced by as much as thirty five percent.