For protein content, grape jams have the lowest while apricot
jams have the highest (Table 1) which is comparable to the
protein content of jackfruit (0.19 g/100 g) and pineapple jam
(0.46 g/100 g) (Eke-Ejiofor and Owuno, 2013). According to
the jams nutrition labelling, common ingredients are fruits,
sugar, pectin and citric acid. None of the ingredients used
are an abundant source of protein; hence, the low protein content
of jams is found in this study. The difference in the protein
content for all four types of jams analyzed was statistically significant
(p