Does jelly count as a serving of fruit?

Actually, you are referring to jam or preserves. Jelly is made with juice, pectin and sugar only.

I agree with the others, fruit juice is mostly sugar however, the bigger problem is that the mixture it has been boiled to thicken it so not many nutrients are left. If you are looking to sweeten toast or bagels, I suggest mashing the berries "au natural" and spreading them as you would with jelly or jam.

Even if it's all natural a normal amount of jelly would not count as a full serving of fruit. Consider a normal serving of fresh fruit. You would have to eat an apple sized portion of all natural sugar free jelly to get the same benefits.

I think a real serving of fruit is natural close to it's original structure. Not sweetened in any way, or processed. Hopefully you're not speaking of a bowl of jelly with a spoon in it.

No. Jelly is sugar. In order to get your fruit count per day you need to eat fresh, raw (or dried) fruit.

No way! Fruit is just plain old real fruit, not processed junk.

no only if its preserves or jam should you consider it healthy or count towards a real food group

nope. it's fairly sugary. you need to eat fresh fruit to get the full benefits.

I wouldn't think so... Unless it has real, fresh fruit in it...