What Are They Made Out of?

Nutritional Value
Due to the main component of fruit, the function of jams within the organism is similar to that of vegetables, since they serve as regulating nourishment, providing minerals and vitamins to a person’s diet.

These last, along with their caloric power and their pleasurable taste and aroma, turn them into indispensable nourishment for our everyday diet.

The nutritional value of the sweet full of vitamins and provides energy to our bodies. The content of saccharine and fructose that fruit contains both have quick digestion and absorption sugars that are inside the sweet and which substantially increases the calorie content.

The amount of fat that they have is low, except in jams or sweets that have oily fruit in them such as nuts, peanuts, hazelnuts, almonds etc. The contribution of proteins is low since they lack certain essential amino acids.

The very nutritional value of fruit eradicates in an appreciative quantity of minerals and vitamins, especially the vitamins C and A.

Citric fruits such as kiwis, strawberries, raspberries, plums, mangos and papayas have a very high content of vitamin C. Fruit that has orange or yellow colored pulp such as peaches, melons, and mangos have that color due to pigments called betocarotene, which isn’t anything else but vitamin A.

Amongst the minerals that stand out we can find calcium, iron, phosphorous, magnesium and copper.

The acidity quality of fruit is there because of the organic acids. Citric acid predominates in fruit like oranges, mandarins, limes, and grapefruit. The malic acid can be found abundantly in pears and peaches and the tartaric acids can be specifically found in grapes. The colors of the fruits get their origins from green, orange and red pigments of plants. These pigments don’t have any nutritional value, except for the carotene, which are provitamins A. the presence of tannin in some fruit produces a brown to pearled color.

Fruit Skin
The skin on fruit doesn’t have any nutritional value or vitamins. However, they do have an elevated content of cellulose, which is a vegetable fiber and it is recommended to add it in when making desserts since it helps to regulate the intestinal system and they combat constipation.