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Originally Posted by siduri  I don;t know about all the other conditions you describe (vacuum packing, etc) but want to put your mind at ease on jams. Jam is also somewhat acidic, and no protein, and it's boiled very well, so if you pack it into jars you just boiled for several minutes, you won;t get botulism. Same for pickles packed in vinegar (acid)
Other stuff, i would beware of, and they usually say you should process under pressure. |
I got carried away and forgot to cover jam... ditto what Siduri said (plus sugar traps water preventing many bacteria from surviving).
Honey is problematic if it is not pasteurized it should not be given to children under 2. Honey are known to contain spores which are destroyed by stomach acids and prevented from sprouting in the gut because of our resident flora of gut microbes. Children under 2 lack one or both of these conditions.
Luc H.