What's in canned Cranberry Sauce besides Cranberries?

[Villages PL]

I searched it and found this: One serving of Ocean Spray is a 1/4 cup and contains 21 grams of sugar. I think the sugar comes from corn syrup.

21 grams is just short of 6 teaspoons.

[pooh]

Cranberries without some sort of sweeteners, are pretty tart.

[villager]

Why don't you look at the ingredient list on a can?

[BarryRX]

He knows the answer. He's just trolling to promote his "eat healthy" agenda.

[zcaveman]

I eat two slices of the jellied cranberry sauce once a year so who cares what is in it. I figure the wine will break it down for me.

Z

[Indydealmaker]

He knows the answer. He's just trolling to promote his "eat healthy" agenda.

The "eat healthy" trolls just want everybody else to be as unhappy as they are. Long Live Lard!

[ilovetv]

The "eat healthy" trolls just want everybody else to be as unhappy as they are. Long Live Lard!

LOL!!!

Why don't people on righteous eating diets realize that by depriving themselves of foods that please the brain, like some fats, some sugars or SOME chocolate, they are in a chronic BAD MOOD? Everyone around them sees the bad mood and pulls away.

[ganative]

Canned cranberry is a thanksgiving staple...lol. can't do without it on my after thanksgiving sandwich. Must be the 21 grams of sugar that holds the jelly type mold together.

[Kahuna32162]

Not really sure, we just keep putting the same can out on the table year after year :)

[KayakerNC]

He knows the answer. He's just trolling to promote his "eat healthy" agenda.

:agree:

[DougB]

Not really sure, we just keep putting the same can out on the table year after year :)

Wrap it up with the fruitcake that gets passed around each year.

[scarecrow1]

Sauce!!!!!!

[OBXNana]

I have an amazing cranberry relish recipe I'd be happy to share. You can use granulated sugar or Splenda. If anyone's interested let me know. I have ours cooking and the whole house smells great!

[zcaveman]

My wife makes a great sugar-free cranberry sauce but I like the jellied version which she cannot make. Any recipes for a jellied cranberry sauce from scratch?

Z

[Villages PL]

Cranberries without some sort of sweeteners, are pretty tart.

Yes, you can say that again! Several years ago I bought a bag of cranberries to try my luck at cooking them. I cooked the whole bag and didn't add any sugar. It was tart but I didn't mind the tartness, I thought it had an interesting taste. Although, it's not something you can eat a lot of; I decided I would just eat a teaspoon or tablespoon of it before breakfast.

After a few days of doing this, I noticed it was getting more and more difficult to empty my bladder. There was no doubt in my mind what was causing this so I disposed of the remaining portion of cranberry sauce.

I've heard that cranberry juice is recommended to women who get bladder infections. That may be true but it doesn't necessarily mean that cranberries are good for men. Or maybe it's just me. After I discontinued eating the tart cranberries, bladder emptying went back to normal.

[jojo]

:a040:I eat two slices of the jellied cranberry sauce once a year so who cares what is in it. I figure the wine will break it down for me.

Z

[pooh]

Yes, you can say that again! Several years ago I bought a bag of cranberries to try my luck at cooking them. I cooked the whole bag and didn't add any sugar. It was tart but I didn't mind the tartness, I thought it had an interesting taste. Although, it's not something you can eat a lot of; I decided I would just eat a teaspoon or tablespoon of it before breakfast.

After a few days of doing this, I noticed it was getting more and more difficult to empty my bladder. There was no doubt in my mind what was causing this so I disposed of the remaining portion of cranberry sauce.

I've heard that cranberry juice is recommended to women who get bladder infections. That may be true but it doesn't necessarily mean that cranberries are good for men. Or maybe it's just me. After I discontinued eating the tart cranberries, bladder emptying went back to normal.

You're much more brave....tried one little cooked berry....way too tart, and tart is a taste I generally like. I do enjoy cranberry sauce, seems we did have it more often than just holidays around our house when I was growing up. Ocean Spray processing plant was about 20 or so miles from my town and berry bogs were always interesting to watch over time. When I was a kid, I was sure those flooded bogs were very, very deep....;)

[Villages PL]

Why don't you look at the ingredient list on a can?

The next time I go to the store, I will. When I posted this thread I wasn't in the store. But I figured I could find out by searching the internet. Ocean Spray shows part of their label, the part that gives the percentages of this and that. It's all zeros except for sugar. Sugar = 21 grams.

They didn't show the ingredient part of the label, but if my memory serves me right all the sugar comes from either corn syrup or high fructose corn syrup. I remember looking at the label several years ago.

[casita37]

He knows the answer. He's just trolling to promote his "eat healthy" agenda.

I appreciate the healthy eating agenda. It's hardly trolling. When people post about their golf cart batteries (just an example), I'm not interested, so I move on.

Got me googling cranberry sauce/relish. There are some recipes out there using all sorts of things to ease away from the sugar....pineapple, strawberries, even vinegar, plus the usual assortment of artificial sweeteners(which are no better, actually worse, than the sugar).

Like someone else said, it's once a year. Fresh Market has the BEST cranberry relish.

[red tail]

in the words of 'archie bunker' the canned stuff is the real thing!!!

[Villages PL]

I appreciate the healthy eating agenda. It's hardly trolling.


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