If you ate enough jam would it count as your five a day?

[LittleLongDog]

Obviously not going to chow down on a jar of jam instead of an apple but.... would it ever count as one of your five a day?

Although it’s seven a day now isn’t it? Or have they added even more when I wasn’t paying attention?

Yes, same for wine

Yes, definitely. Especially the ones with great lumps of strawberry in them.

Thick-cut marmalade too (and you get your vit C).

Each of your 5 a day is an 80g portion. Jams tend to contain 50% fruit at best, the rest sugar, so you'd have to eat about 160g of jam. If you could keep it down and your bod could cope with that much sugar, bingo!

That's a question from my own heart OP!

Perhaps, but then you would also get diabetes.

Apple pies count too

And Jaffa cakes

And cherry bakewells

And jam tarts

quite easy to eat five a day really...!

Jam, wine, fruit cake, mince pies....

Fruit pastilles definitely count. So do Jelly Tots.

My favourite thread title ever

I once worked out how much Vimto you'd need to drink for it to count as a serving of fruit juice

Of course it would. Get stuck in.

So this forest fruit topped cheesecake counts too then. Brilliant.
😁

Now take a carrot cake- defo one of your five a day.

I’m taking these responses as a big fat yes.

greatbigwho how much Vimto was it? I’ll add it to my five a day stockpile of jam.

sultana scone + jam = 2 of your 5 a day

I’m quite interested to know 🤣 I’m going to say no I think, because surely the reason you need to eat F&V is for the vitamins and nutrients they contain and I can’t see there would be any left after your strawberries have been boiled to death

I seem to remember it was something like 7L 😬

Vimto counts?

My DD is obsessed with jam so I’m going with yes.

Yes, definitely. Also carrot cake.

Vimto counts?

greatbigwho is that diluted or concentrate? It would get expensive but I could probably afford it for the good of my health.

Sure it counts! Like a Terry's Chocolate Orange. at least that is what I tell myself at 2am when am chowing one down in secret....

Given how poor so much of the population's diet is, we must get some benefit from what I think of as "microportions" of fruit and veg. I'm definitely not claiming it's the healthy way to eat foods, but a bit of strawberry jam here, and sweetcorn in a pot noodle there must add up to some benefit, surely?

An instructor at the gym once tried to convince me that a vegetable cupa soup was at least 3-4 portions of fruit & veg, on the basis that there was more than one type of vegetable in it

I think they believed it too.