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Jelly is a sweet or savoury food gel, usually through the addition of gelatin or pectin. Sweet food gels include gelatin desserts such as Jell-O and blancmange or fruit jam. Savoury food gels include aspic or plain gelatine.

In beekeeping, royal jelly is a specific foodstuff made by bees which, when fed to bee larvae, turns them into queen bees.

Regional variations

In North America, the term is often used to mean jam in general, whether it has gelled or not. Concord grape jelly is usually used in the staple of North American school lunches - the peanut butter and jelly sandwichA peanut butter and jelly sandwich PBJ or PB&J is a lunch staple enjoyed by schoolchildren in the United States and Canada. The recipe is as simple as the name one slice of bread spread with peanut butter, the other spread with jelly (traditionally rasber (PBJ or PB&J). MayhawMayhaw Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Rosales Family: Rosaceae Genus Crataegus L. Species Crataegus aestivalis Crataegus opaca Crataegus rufula et al A Mayhaw is the name given to the fruit o jelly is a delicacy in the American South.

Jelly babies are a popular gelatine based confectioneryThe term confectionery refers to food items rich in sugar. Different dialects of English also use regional terms for confections In British and Hiberno-English, sweets In Australian English and New Zealand English, lollies In American English, candy (alth in the UK and gummi bears are popular worldwide. Food and drink

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