What's the difference between jam and jelly?

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This is the only thing I know about them:

* One you can spread out more evenly...and one looks like jello.

*Jam is what people in the olden ages used.

*Apricot, Strawberry jam.........Grape jelly.....

Anybody have any good thoughts about jam and jelly?


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Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Jelly, jam and preserves are all made from fruit mixed with sugar and pectin. The difference between them comes in the form that the fruit takes. 

In jelly, the fruit comes in the form of fruit juice. 
In jam, the fruit comes in the form of fruit pulp or crushed fruit (and is less stiff than jelly as a result). 
In preserves, the fruit comes in the form of chunks in a syrup or a jam.

gschick · Answer

i think one of them has pieces of fruit in it and the other doesnt. but im not sure...

Anonymous · Answer

did you look in the dictionary..???

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/

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