What fruit doesn't make a jelly set?!
What fruit doesn't make a jelly set?
The kids want me to make a jelly with fruit in the bottom - but I remember once been told that certain fruits stop the jelly from setting - but which ones - please help!
Answers:
Fresh pineapple, kiwi, or papaya as each of these fruits, and a few others, contains high enough levels of an enzyme that breaks down protein to stop the jelly from setting. Frozen versions will have the same problems but canned ones have been heated and this has made the enzymes lose their chemical properties, and thus should be safe to use in your jellies.
Hope that helps and have fun.
pineapple and also kiwi
Yap! Pineapple, kiwi and papaya.
Pineapple you can choose the tin kind.
kiwi and papaya ..
not sure..
I think the first answer was corrected. If I'm not mistaken it says on the back of the box because I remember making one the other week and thinking - "well that's alright, I wasn't about to put pineapple in a blackcurrent jelly, you muppets".
apple , grapefruit , banana ,kiwi . rhubarb . graps
pineapple & kiwi.
i assure you buy tinned cocktail fruits
Yeah, I tried a jelly with kiwis, and it stayed liquid. So does pineapple and pawpaw, and even apples and bananas have enzymes that transform the protein in the gelatine, and thus hinder it from setting. But, the enzymes of the fruits have been killed in the canning process, so tinned fruits are OK.
Pineapples, kiwis, papaya are all fresh fruits that cannot be used in making jello. One missing from previous lists was fig. Each of these fruits contain a different enzyme that affects proteins in a simmilar way.
Bromelain is in pineapples, papain in papayas, acticidin in kiwis, and ficin in figs. All of these are used (usually in powdered form) in store bought meat tenderizers. Papain seems to be the most commonly used in tenderizer mixes though.
Purchasing pasteurized or canned as well as rehydrating dried versions of these fruits kills the enzyme that breaks down proteins such as gelatin.
not sure but u might as well buy the fruit cocktail in the tin and use that, it will be alot easier
banana
kiwi