I quite enjoy Trader Joe's Seville Orange Marmalade but I was idly
contemplating the label on the jar and I saw that one of the ingredients
was pectin. I wonder why that should be when the marmalade contains
slices of peel and orange peel is a rich source of pectin.

I also saw that the marmalade was made in Canada and the jar contained
17.5 oz. This, as the jar indicates, is 496g. I wonder why they don't
put a little more in the jar and make its weight a round 500g?


--
Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

Extraneous "not." in Reply To.

On 13/02/2015 11:48 AM, James Silverton wrote:
> I quite enjoy Trader Joe's Seville Orange Marmalade but I was idly
> contemplating the label on the jar and I saw that one of the ingredients
> was pectin. I wonder why that should be when the marmalade contains
> slices of peel and orange peel is a rich source of pectin.
>
> I also saw that the marmalade was made in Canada and the jar contained
> 17.5 oz. This, as the jar indicates, is 496g. I wonder why they don't
> put a little more in the jar and make its weight a round 500g?
>
>
But that would be 17.64oz and USians would then ask why it wasn't
rounded off to 18oz.
Pre-packed coffee and other items up here are often sold in 454g
packets. Go figure!
Graham

On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 13:48:00 -0500, James Silverton
> wrote:

>I quite enjoy Trader Joe's Seville Orange Marmalade but I was idly
>contemplating the label on the jar and I saw that one of the ingredients
>was pectin. I wonder why that should be when the marmalade contains
>slices of peel and orange peel is a rich source of pectin.
>
>I also saw that the marmalade was made in Canada and the jar contained
>17.5 oz. This, as the jar indicates, is 496g. I wonder why they don't
>put a little more in the jar and make its weight a round 500g?

Yes, the orange is very good, flavor and consistency, and I've tried
some of the others as well, the blackberry is also very good and none
of the flavors is bad. Cherry is good but the whole cherries
sometimes have floated to the top of the jar.

J.

James Silverton wrote:

>I quite enjoy Trader Joe's Seville Orange Marmalade but I was idly
>contemplating the label on the jar and I saw that one of the ingredients
>was pectin. I wonder why that should be when the marmalade contains
>slices of peel and orange peel is a rich source of pectin.

Many fruits need extra pectin to gel properly.

>I also saw that the marmalade was made in Canada and the jar contained
>17.5 oz. This, as the jar indicates, is 496g. I wonder why they don't
>put a little more in the jar and make its weight a round 500g?

They had to choose between an even 17 1/2 ounces and an even 500
grams, can't have both.... probably made two sizes, one for sale in
Canada and one for sale in the the US. I'd have prefered 16 ounces,
easier for me to compare prices. Is why the US doesn't go metric, I
can very accurately judge ounces, but to my eye milliliters are as
meaningless as Chinese characters. Any female all I need is a glance
and I can accurately tell you her bra size in inches... I haven't a
clue her millimeters. LOL

On 2/13/2015 3:27 PM, JRStern wrote:

> Yes, the orange is very good, flavor and consistency, and I've tried
> some of the others as well, the blackberry is also very good and none
> of the flavors is bad. Cherry is good but the whole cherries
> sometimes have floated to the top of the jar.

I normally steer clear of the samples but I did try something
at TJs not too long ago and wound up buying the two products.
Good score for them. Blintzes and cherry preserves. They made
a nice combination.

I really like their Seville marmalade, too, someone here turned
me onto that. I love marmalade.

nancy

On 2015-02-13 1:48 PM, James Silverton wrote:
> I quite enjoy Trader Joe's Seville Orange Marmalade but I was idly
> contemplating the label on the jar and I saw that one of the ingredients
> was pectin. I wonder why that should be when the marmalade contains
> slices of peel and orange peel is a rich source of pectin.

It may be because it is cheaper and easier to add more sugar and pectin
that to have to mess around with cooking it until it passes the set test
on its own.

> I also saw that the marmalade was made in Canada and the jar contained
> 17.5 oz. This, as the jar indicates, is 496g. I wonder why they don't
> put a little more in the jar and make its weight a round 500g?

That is a good question. When we used the Imperial system most things
came in some fraction of an Imperial quart gallon or pound. When we
switched to SIM we used the same sizes ... but in metric, like the
popular 12 oz size for pop and beer became 355 ml. The best I suggest
is that they bought a stock size jar and their product fills the
containers to an acceptable level for canning with that odd number.

On 2015-02-13 3:07 PM, graham wrote:

>> I also saw that the marmalade was made in Canada and the jar contained
>> 17.5 oz. This, as the jar indicates, is 496g. I wonder why they don't
>> put a little more in the jar and make its weight a round 500g?
>>
>>
> But that would be 17.64oz and USians would then ask why it wasn't
> rounded off to 18oz.
> Pre-packed coffee and other items up here are often sold in 454g
> packets. Go figure!


That is because 454 grams is pretty darned close to a pound.

It is funny, but when we went metric everyone was concerned about all
the changes that would result from the new sizes. As it turned out, the
size of most consumer products remained the same.The only thing that
changed was the number and unit printed on the label, like a one pound
package morphing into something the size and shape but with a label that
sames 454 grams.

On 13/02/2015 2:39 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2015-02-13 3:07 PM, graham wrote:
>
>>> I also saw that the marmalade was made in Canada and the jar contained
>>> 17.5 oz. This, as the jar indicates, is 496g. I wonder why they don't
>>> put a little more in the jar and make its weight a round 500g?
>>>
>>>
>> But that would be 17.64oz and USians would then ask why it wasn't
>> rounded off to 18oz.
>> Pre-packed coffee and other items up here are often sold in 454g
>> packets. Go figure!
>
>
> That is because 454 grams is pretty darned close to a pound.
>
That was my point. Why not round down to 450g or up to 500g?
The former would be easily attainable without much modification of the
packaging machinery.
Graham

On 2015-02-13 16:29, Nancy Young wrote:

>
> I really like their Seville marmalade, too, someone here turned
> me onto that. I love marmalade.
>

Now that I can eat oranges again I may make some Seville orange
marmalade. It is easy to make and infinitely better than commercial
products.

On 2/13/2015 1:48 PM, James Silverton wrote:

> I also saw that the marmalade was made in Canada and the jar contained
> 17.5 oz. This, as the jar indicates, is 496g. I wonder why they don't
> put a little more in the jar and make its weight a round 500g?
>
>

It could be that jar is a standard size that holds a standard number of
fluid ounces and the marmalade is sold by weight. Different product
have different density also. If they put grape jelly in it the weight
may be 500g at the same fill level.

On 2/13/2015 11:29 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 2/13/2015 1:48 PM, James Silverton wrote:
>
>> I also saw that the marmalade was made in Canada and the jar contained
>> 17.5 oz. This, as the jar indicates, is 496g. I wonder why they don't
>> put a little more in the jar and make its weight a round 500g?
>>
>>
>
> It could be that jar is a standard size that holds a standard number of
> fluid ounces and the marmalade is sold by weight. Different product
> have different density also. If they put grape jelly in it the weight
> may be 500g at the same fill level.

I'm not completely convinced but it's a reasonable solution. I'm not
going to do any experiments and, anyway, I don't like grape jelly :-)

--
Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

Extraneous "not." in Reply To.

On 2015-02-13 5:38 PM, graham wrote:
> On 13/02/2015 2:39 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2015-02-13 3:07 PM, graham wrote:
>>
>>>> I also saw that the marmalade was made in Canada and the jar contained
>>>> 17.5 oz. This, as the jar indicates, is 496g. I wonder why they don't
>>>> put a little more in the jar and make its weight a round 500g?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> But that would be 17.64oz and USians would then ask why it wasn't
>>> rounded off to 18oz.
>>> Pre-packed coffee and other items up here are often sold in 454g
>>> packets. Go figure!
>>
>>
>> That is because 454 grams is pretty darned close to a pound.
>>
> That was my point. Why not round down to 450g or up to 500g?
> The former would be easily attainable without much modification of the
> packaging machinery.

That was your point? Coffee is prepackaged by the pound for the American
market, which is 10 times larger. It is the same size package. The
weight of one is Imperial while the other is in metric, but they are the
same size.
>