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POL'S White Cherry Jam is the one flavour that stands apart visually among the dark preserves on a buffet. Despite its name, white cherry is a yellowish-pink fruit, and it keeps that pale colour once…

POL'S Peach Jam is made from a fleshy fruit, and that structure survives into the preserve. Unlike raspberry or strawberry, which break down readily, peach holds its slice form to a degree during coo…

POL'S Apricot Jam is more than a preserve in pastry work. Apricot sits among the most obliging of preserving fruits in its balance of acid and pectin: it neither sets as reluctantly as strawberry nor…

POL'S Quince Jam is the one variety whose raw material is not eaten raw. Quince is hard, astringent and drying in the mouth when raw; only long cooking sweetens it and brings out its characteristic a…

POL'S Orange Jam differs structurally from the other varieties: it uses not only the flesh of the fruit but the peel as well. In citrus preserves the strips of peel carry both texture and aroma — the…

POL'S Pomegranate Jam is among the least common varieties on a breakfast buffet, and that is precisely its value. Strawberry, apricot and sour cherry appear everywhere; put pomegranate preserve on th…

The Life series Fun Mix makes clear in its name who the blend was built for. Resistance to tart flavours is common in children, so fruits with pronounced acidity such as sour cherry and lime are abse…

Joy Mix is the second product in the Life series and should be considered alongside Fun Mix. They address the same audience but carry different fruit compositions, which solves at shelf level the bor…

Berry Mix is the most narrowly defined of the blends: only berries go into it. That narrowing is an identity rather than a limitation — berries form a group that is dark in colour, acidic in taste an…

Fruit Mix is the one blend in the series that is not narrowed to a particular audience or fruit group. Where Berry Mix is bounded by berries and the Life series by children's palates, the aim here is…

Raspberry is among the best-suited fruits for freeze-drying because it is already hollow. The fruit is built from small chambers arranged around its seeds; when water is drawn out of those chambers a…

Pineapple has the most distinct texture among freeze-dried fruits. Where strawberry and raspberry leave a fragile skeleton, pineapple is fibrous; when the water goes those fibres remain and the produ…