Have to whip up something tonight for daughters class tommorow thats healthy, I was just going for easy and adding pineapple to jello. It should set correctly with the pineapple in it shouldn't it?
2007-03-22 11:24:33 · 8 answers · asked by hbuckmeister 5 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
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2007-03-22 11:32:02 · answer #1 · answered by James N 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to turn to the source:
Why you can't put pineapple in Jell-O
29-Nov-1974
Dear Cecil:
Here is a question that has plagued me ever since I was breaking up with my last girlfriend and wandered around my empty apartment in a daze staring fixedly at random objects. Once I stared fixedly at the back of a box of Jell-O. I saw something that made me stare at another box, and another (my old girlfriend liked Jell-O). Anyway, here's the question: why is it that every Jell-O package says not to add fresh or frozen pineapples? And why is there no pineapple-flavored Jell-O, only orange-pineapple? Occasionally I still sink into morbid brooding about this, particularly when having trouble with my new girlfriend. Only you can help. --Bill R., Dallas
Dear Bill:
Man, does Ann Landers get letters like this? If you put fresh pineapple in your Jell-O, you'll end up with pineapple floating in Kool-Aid. Pineapples naturally contain a chemical substance that inhibits jelling. Cooking the fruit drives the substance out, and that's why only fresh and fresh-frozen varieties are prohibited.
None of this has anything to do with the question of why there is no pineapple-flavored Jell-O. General Foods generally decides such things on the basis of consumer preference surveys. To date no great yearning for pineapple Jell-O has been detected, so they don't make it.
--CECIL ADAMS
2007-03-22 12:06:52 · answer #2 · answered by T J 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Canned pineapple yes as the enzyme in fresh pineapple eats something in the gelatin that wont allow it to set
2007-03-22 13:12:39 · answer #3 · answered by Marla D 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have never had any luck adding pineapple to Jell-O. But, I know some people who do it all the time. There must be a trick to it, but I sure do not know what it is.
2007-03-22 17:56:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I beleive you can use pineapple in jello as long as its not fresh.
2007-03-22 12:02:05 · answer #5 · answered by Katie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it will work and instead of using water to make the gelatin use the liquid from the pineapple
2007-03-22 11:33:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, jello works just fine with almost anything in it.
2007-03-22 11:32:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure,why not.
2007-03-22 11:31:46 · answer #8 · answered by jeff 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋