10/28/2026
🫐 HOW MUCH HUCKLEBERRY IS ACTUALLY IN YOUR HUCKLEBERRY JAM?
Here's something I think more people should pay attention to when buying jams and jellies.
I was looking at a jar of Wild Montana Huckleberry Jam today and decided to read the ingredients.
They list five ingredients: Wild huckleberries, organic sugar, fruit pectin, tapioca, and citric acid.
Now, there's nothing necessarily wrong with those ingredients, but it got me thinking about how we make our huckleberry jam at Simply 406 Bakery & Catering.
We use THREE ingredients.
🫐 Huckleberries
🫐 Sugar
🫐 Pectin
That's it!
Here's where things get interesting.
When we make a batch of our huckleberry jam, we generally use around 8 full cups of huckleberries, which produces approximately 12 half-pint jars.
That means we're putting the equivalent of roughly ⅔ cup of huckleberries into every single jar!
That's a lot of huckleberries, especially when you consider how much work goes into gathering them and what they cost.
Now, I'd actually be curious to know how many huckleberries go into that commercially produced jar. Unfortunately, the ingredients label doesn't tell us that.
I'm not knocking another company's product. I'm simply showing people the difference in how we make ours.
We don't use tapioca to thicken our jam, and we don't add citric acid. We use a generous amount of huckleberries because we want our jam to actually taste like huckleberries!
We're a small, Native owned and operated cottage bakery right here in Hot Springs, Montana, and we take pride in what goes into our products.
Sometimes the biggest difference isn't what's added to a product. It's how much of the real ingredient goes into it!
Third picture is our jam on our sourdough bread.
Simply 406 Bakery & Catering 🫐❤️
