Artisan preserves: how to read the label
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Start at the back of the jar when choosing an artisan preserve. The product name, ingredients and storage instructions help explain what you are buying. This guide covers the label; a separate guide helps you choose flavours for breakfast, cheese or desserts.
Fig preserve: ingredients and purchase
Read the ingredients of the individual product
Check the fruit, sugar and any other declared ingredients. Recipes can vary between flavours from the same brand: do not apply one jar’s ingredient list to the whole range. The presence of a permitted ingredient does not, on its own, prove that a product is better or worse.
Fruit used and sugars are different measurements
The statement about fruit used describes how many grams of fruit were used to obtain the product. Sugars in the nutrition table include those naturally present in fruit and those added. Do not subtract one value from the other to reconstruct the recipe, or confuse these figures with ingredient percentages.
Origin, producer and storage
Read who produces the preserve and what information is provided about origin. The producer’s address alone does not identify the origin of every ingredient. Follow the individual label for storage and consumption after opening: a general shelf-life claim in an article cannot replace the instructions on your jar.
From the label to your first taste
Open the fig preserve page to read about that specific product and buy an individual jar. If you want to compare flavours on the same bread or yoghurt, Dolce Risveglio offers a ready-made selection. The label guides your choice; tasting shows which flavour you prefer.
Choose the jars for your table
Dolce Risveglio breakfast set
Six jars: two fig, two strawberry, one black bilberry and one apricot. For bread, yoghurt and desserts, with gift packaging included.
Fig preserve: ingredients and purchase
Prefer a single flavour? Browse individual preserves.
Check each product page for current contents, price and availability. Follow the label on the individual jar for storage instructions.
Do you run a café, hotel or pastry shop?
Request the trade price list for current formats, quantities and terms. Pastry kitchens have a separate page for the made-to-order baking range.
Baking range for pastry professionals
