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Is Smucker's Red Raspberry Jam ultra-processed?

1 pound 2oz / 510g Berry jams Sold in the United States and France

Pack of Smucker's Red Raspberry Jam

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 10 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Less processed berry jams

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

red raspberries, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, fruit pectin, citric acid, %dv* 0% o, tm, ⓡ the j.m, smucker company orrville, oh 44667 usa 0% call toll free with questions and comments 1-888-550-9555 35% 120 refrigerate

Additives: E330 Citric acid , E440 Pectins

As written on the pack

red raspberries, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, fruit pectin, citric acid. %dv* 0% o/tm/ⓡ the j.m. smucker company orrville, oh 44667 usa 0% call toll free with questions or comments 1-888-550-9555 35% 120 refrigerate

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • High fructose corn syrup High-fructose corn syrup is made from corn starch: enzymes break it down to glucose and convert part of that into fructose, giving a syrup about as sweet as table sugar.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 207 berry jams

From least to most processed, this one ranks 188th. 93% of the berry jams here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 207 berry jams, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0051500012284, last edited 3 June 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
  • NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.