Hoard these best brands of jams to top your bread, muffin, and cake recipes with tasty fruity flavours.
Bread-butter and jam is a time-honoured meal that fits perfectly into the English breakfast platter. Jams celebrate the sweetness and nutritional richness of fruit pulp blended with sugar, and often spices and other ingredients. This fruity pulpy spread goes well served with morning toasts, biscuits, muffins, or as a topping on ice creams, desserts, and sandwiched between pastries, cakes, and tarts. From being a home affair to mass production – jams exist as preserves of seasonal fruits that can be relished later. To help you save your time buying grocery, we have rounded up the best brands of jams to brighten up your breakfast meals.
Top Brands of Fruity Jams
1. Classic
Go down memory lane and revisit your childhood breakfast with this mixed fruit jam from the house of Kissan. It is made with 100% natural fruit ingredients and is teeming with the flavours from 8 fruits: banana, papaya, apple, pear, pineapple, mango, grape, and orange blended for a lip-smacking taste.
Parents can partner this yummy blend with parathas, bread, crackers to offer an on-the-go breakfast or evening snack to children who are fussy eaters.
This mixed fruit jam comes carefully packaged in an impermeable glass container to retain taste and flavours.
2. Gluten Free
This blueberry flavoured jam by La Vieja Fabrica is an excellent choice to add a punch of blueberry to desserts. It is abundant in the goodness of real fruit flavours with no added sugar. As a bonus, this preserve is a vegan-friendly and gluten-free produce.
This fruit preserve is made using a traditional 170-year-old recipe and a traditional manufacturing process for a homemade flavour.
3. Pulpy
Get immersed in the mouth-watering, fruit-filled flavours of strawberry with the Mapro strawberry jam. Made with red, luscious strawberry fruit and pulp, this jam is high in vitamin C. This jam is an excellent accompaniment to bread, buns, chapattis, and puris.
This jam is a low-fat product. It is free from cholesterol and transfat as well.
4. Homegrown
Bhuira jams are a product of a women-led initiative to empower and foster a self-sufficient lifestyle among the women of Himachal. This jam is made from hand-plucked apricots ripened under the sun. What makes it better – it contains 54% apricot pulp, is free from preservatives, and is entirely a natural product.
This all-natural apricot fruit preserve is free from synthetic colours and flavours.
5. Vegetarian
The Nature’s Harvest rose petal jam has got it covered for the lovers of gulkand. It has a simple ingredient list that contains just mishri and rose petals. It is free from added colours, flavours, and preservatives. You can add this jam for a burst of gulkand flavours to milkshakes, sherbets, kulfi, ice creams, kheer, and other desserts. Best of all – it comes in utilitarian packaging of premium quality; food-grade stand-up pouch with a zipper.
This jam is a pure and natural preserve of spring roses.
6. Sugar-Free
Swap your regular sugary jam with this stellar pick from DiaBliss if you are looking to cut back on your sugar intake. This mixed fruit jam houses pomegranate’s nutritional goodness blended with the extracts of herbs such as fenugreek, cinnamon, ginger, black pepper, and turmeric. It has a low glycaemic index and can be enjoyed by people who would like to jumpstart their day without eating a sugar bomb. It comes in a combo pack of 3 with a single purchase.
This sugar-free alternative has sweet notes of pomegranate and the nutrition of herbs without any bitter aftertaste.
7. Fruit Chunks
The Bonn Maman jams are a mouth-watering strawberry preserve containing 50% fruit content. An offering from France’s jam market leader, this jam houses the sweetness of perfectly cooked strawberries with a brilliant texture and flavour. It boasts an all-natural traditional recipe free from artificial flavours, colours, and preservatives.
This chunky jam is free from artificial sugar.
8. High Fruit Content
A wholesome blend of banana, dates, home ground cinnamon, and vanilla – this jam by Orchard Lane can be paired with cakes, pancakes, chapatis, and pies. It is handmade with love and imparts a caramel-like texture to recipes. It is made using the premium handpicked fruits cut under supervision. Without any addition of artificial colours and flavours, this jam is truly a condensed fruit product brimming with the colours and taste of real fruits. Not only does this jam host 80% fruit content, but it is also low in sugar! Now, that’s a win-win.
This jam is made without any chemical preservatives, and hence the product undergoes a strict hygiene and sterilisation process during packaging.