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Shelf-stable jam: allergens and what’s inside

Of 72 packs of shelf-stable jam whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 4% list tree nuts. Another 14% carry a “may contain” line for milk. Most list sugar and berries.

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Which allergens are in shelf-stable jam?

Of 72 packs of shelf-stable jam whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 4% list tree nuts. Another 14% carry a “may contain” line for milk. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Tree nut allergyHeads up4% list tree nuts.
Milk allergyHeads up14% carry a “may contain” line for milk.

Not for you when most of these packs list the allergen, Heads up when fewer do or only a “may contain” line names it. In the app, a profile gets Not for you on a pack that lists the allergen and Heads up on one whose “may contain” line names it: it reads the pack in your hand, not these counts.

What is shelf-stable jam usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of shelf-stable jam list, with the share of packs that list each: sugar (100%), berries (51%), concentrated lemon juice (43%) and unrefined cane sugar (39%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 98 · Portugal 1 · Reunion 1 · Spain 1.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows what these packs list, not every recipe for shelf-stable jam.

Calories and nutrients

Not shown here. Open Food Facts records calories and nutrients per 100 g or per 100 ml without saying which, so a figure for all these packs together could mislead. The pack you buy prints its own, and that is the figure to log.

What kind of food is shelf-stable jam?

In the Open Food Facts categories, shelf-stable jam is a kind of jam.

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Sources

Every share is counted over the packs whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full. A pack lists an allergen when Open Food Facts’ allergen field names it, or when one of its ingredients stands for it by the same two-of-three checks as the ingredient dictionary (tahini is sesame, a cheese is milk). A “may contain” line counts only for an allergen the pack does not list.

  1. Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
  2. Open Food Facts: categories and ingredients taxonomies (names, kinds, allergens), ODbL
  3. Open Food Facts: Shelf-stable jam

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