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Home / Jam / Blueberry Jam Sugar-Free (Ball / Bernardin)

Blueberry Jam Sugar-Free (Ball / Bernardin)

Filed Under: Jam, Seasonal Summer Tagged With: Blueberries

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Delicious, truly-pure blueberry jam in which the taste of high summer really comes through, unmasked by white refined sugar.

And, without the sugar, it’s so incredibly low in calories that any dieter can basically count a couple tablespoons of this as “free.”

You can use either Ball or Bernardin No Sugar Needed box pectin, or, Ball RealFruit™ Low or No-Sugar Needed Flex Batch Pectin.

Contents hide
  • 1 The recipe
  • 2 Blueberry Jam Sugar-Free (Ball / Bernardin)
    • 2.1 Ingredients
    • 2.2 Instructions
    • 2.3 Notes
    • 2.4 Nutrition
  • 3 Reference information
  • 4 Recipe source
  • 5 How to make the original recipe
  • 6 Nutrition information
    • 6.1 Sugar-free version

The recipe

Jar size choices: Either 125 ml (½ cup / 4 oz) OR quarter-litre (½ US pint / 250 ml / 8 oz)

Processing method: Water bath or steam canning

Yield: 5 x quarter-litre (½ US pint) jars

Headspace: 1 cm (¼ inch)

Processing time: 10 minutes either size jar

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Blueberry Jam Sugar-Free (Ball / Bernardin)

A sugar-free blueberry jam recipe from Ball / Bernardin.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword Blueberries, Jam
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Servings 5 x quarter-litre (½ US pint) jars
Calories 17kcal
Metric - US Customary

Ingredients

  • 1 kg whole blueberries (whole. 7 cups / 2.2 lbs)
  • 250 ml fruit juice (unsweetened, pure. 1 cup / 8 oz)
  • 1 box Ball / Bernardin No-Sugar Needed Pectin (49 g / 57 g / 1.75 oz)
  • 300 g sugar (white. 1 ½ cups / 12 oz) OR (1 ½ cup / 40 g Splenda®) OR (1 ½ teaspoons liquid stevia)
Metric - US Customary

Instructions

  • Wash and stem blueberries.
  • Mash the blueberries a layer at a time in something like a pie plate using something like a potato masher.
  • Add to a large pot.
  • Add fruit juice, stir.
  • Sprinkle the pectin over, stir until the pectin is dissolved.
  • Put on burner, add the sweetener you are using, and bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
  • Then, boil hard for 3 minutes.
  • Immediately turn burner off and remove pot from heat.
  • Skim off any foam, if there is any.
  • Ladle into hot quarter-litre (½ US pint) jars.
  • Leave 1 cm (¼ inch) headspace.
  • Debubble, adjust headspace.
  • Wipe jar rims.
  • Put lids on.
  • Process in a water bath or steam canner.
  • Process jars for 10 minutes; increase time as needed for your altitude.

Notes

  • 1 kg (7 cups) of whole blueberries, after mashing, will equal about 1 litre (4 cups) of mashed. A tidge over or under is fine. But if you measured your berries by weight, you won't be too far off that.
  • If using frozen blueberries, zap from frozen in microwave for 4 to 5 minutes, then mash, retaining any juice that might have come off while thawing.
  • Don't crush or mash the berries in a machine, it will damage the pectin.
  • For the fruit juice, you can use cranberry, apple, grape, etc.
  • In 2015, the recipe called for 1 cup (200 g / 8 oz.) of sugar. Sometime between then and 2022, they boasted the amount to 1 ½ cups of sugar. As no sweetener at all is needed for either the safety or success of this recipe, feel free to use less than the new higher amount if you wish -- it depends on the tastes of your crowd and how sweet / tart that particular batch of blueberries was. 
  • How much Splenda or stevia you need will again depends on the tastes of your crowd and the blueberries in question.
  • Ball / Bernardin No Sugar Needed is the same; it's made in the same plant and just labelled with different names on the packaging. If you are using the Ball No Sugar Needed pectin from a canister, you'll want 3 level tablespoons.
  • Boil hard means it should bubble for the whole 3 minutes.
  • You could also use the 125 ml (½ cup) smaller sampler size jars. But this recipe hasn't been tested for larger ½ litre (1 US pint) jars.

Nutrition

Serving: 2g | Calories: 17kcal | Carbohydrates: 4.4g | Protein: 0.2g | Fat: 0.1g | Fiber: 0.6g | Sugar: 3.2g

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Reference information

How to water bath process.

How to steam can.

When water-bath canning or steam canning, you must adjust the processing time for your altitude.

Information about no-sugar needed pectins.

What is the shelf life of home canned goods?

Recipe source

Source: Light Blueberry Jam – No Sugar Needed Pectin. Bernardin web site. Accessed August 2015.

Modifications made:

  • None.

How to make the original recipe

Omit stevia. The original recipe is sugar-free, so use the sweetener of your choice adding according to directions provided with your pectin packaging. You will need to recalculate nutritional values if that matters to you.

Nutrition information

Serving size: 2 tablespoons

Sugar-free version

Per 2 tablespoons: 17 calories, 0 mg sodium

Blueberry Jam Ball Nutrition

* Nutrition info provided by https://caloriecount.about.com

* Better Stevia ® is a registered trademark of the NOW Foods Company.

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Tagged With: Blueberries

Filed Under: Jam, Seasonal Summer Tagged With: Blueberries

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Holly Brooke

    August 26, 2020 at 5:41 pm

    Hi there,
    I’m wanting to make BlackBerry jam using Pamonna (sugar free) pectin and stevia to sweeten. Using your recipe above, how long of a shelf life would you say the jam might have, being sugar free? I will use a water bath to preserve the jam.

    Thanks!

    Reply
    • Healthy Canning

      September 22, 2020 at 12:10 am

      For best quality, especially with sugar-free, use within a year. After that, it will be safe, but will start to darken (though clearly you may not notice with blackberry!) If you store in a cool, dark place, your quality storage life is even longer. See: https://www.healthycanning.com/jar-sizes/

      Reply
      • Karla Hardy

        July 25, 2022 at 3:13 pm

        Can you use honey in place of the white sugar?

        Reply
        • Healthy Canning

          July 25, 2022 at 4:32 pm

          There wouldn’t be any safety ramifications, but because honey is a liquid, its use might have a bearing on the success of the recipe. You are best to ask Bernardin that directly.

          Reply
  2. Kenneth Mize

    July 19, 2018 at 4:46 pm

    I only have pimt jars , can I use them orbdo I have to have 1/2 pint jarx?

    Reply
    • Healthy Canning

      September 11, 2019 at 7:56 pm

      The only tested size for shelf-stable home canning here is the half-pints. You could put it in the pint jars, and freeze the jam. Be sure to leave about 1 1/2 inches of headspace for expansion when frozen.

      Reply
    • Thea Showalter

      July 24, 2022 at 2:16 pm

      Can you sub water for fruit juice?

      Reply
      • Healthy Canning

        July 24, 2022 at 2:28 pm

        Ask Bernardin directly if they have any caveats.

        Reply
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