Jelly Showdown: Welch's vs Private Selection vs Polaner: SuperChef vs Supermarket

Jul 10, 2025 · 10:08

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Welch's versus Polaner versus Private Selection. Three jellies enter the kitchen, but only one spreads the crown. Darnell breaks down the Concord grape jelly, the sugar-free jam with fiber, and the gourmet blueberry preserves in a full taste, nutrition, and price throwdown. The sugar-free Polaner leaves that weird aftertaste everyone knows about, the Private Selection tastes like ripe blueberries smell, and Welch's is smooth as butter. But here's the twist: the winner's not the cheapest. Watch Darnell crown a champion based on pure flavor, texture, and whether your wallet survives.

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All right, so we back in the grocery store here and this time we're doing jellies

You know, peanut butter, jelly, bread, all the good stuff

So, I am going to do OG Welch's Concord grape jelly versus this made with real fruit private select

gourmet blueberry jelly versus Oh, we But wait, there's more

Uh versus Oh, we got See, my man Evan get me together back there. versus sugarfree conqueror grape jam

So, let's see what the best

We got the best versus versus

Let's see who's the best

Let's see nutrition

Let's see taste

Let's see.

Cuz I mean, kids love peanut butter jelly

I love it still

Let's get back to the kitchen

Try these out. [Music] All right

So, we back in the kitchen now

And you know, we've done peanut butter before

If we haven't posted, you'll see peanut butter coming up soon.

But it's time to get to the jellies, people

The jellies

And we got three different genres

You know what I'm saying? Like it matter where you at in life

You know what I'm saying? You be here, here, here

We got uh blueberry gourmet

This is gourmet

You know what I'm saying? Private select

That's a I

think that's what Kroger's brand

Um Private Select Gourmet Blueberry Preserves

And I like what it says here

Talking that stuff

It says made with real fruit

In my mind, all these should be made with real fruit. flake

I don't even understand how you can not make it with real fruit plate

What would you

make it with? Uh so, but when you say that, I'm like, okay, I like where we at here

So, we got that

Then we have the uh Paloners, I think is how you say it

This is sugarfree with fiber and it's 80% fewer calories than your standard preserves

So, okay

Less calories

I

like that

I like that

And it's sugar-free, which I think is a big seller for people

So, I got that

We want to see how it tastes, too

And then we have the one, the only Welches

Grew up with this

It it it is what it is

Um it's a family farm to own

That's how they always is market their brand

So

let's see how it goes

Let's get straight into taste first

Once we knock out taste, I get the price

But I want to see how this tastes

I'm going to start with the sugar-free first because I feel like this is what people are are gearing themselves towards in life

Like they want the sugar, all natural kind of

stuff

So let's see how this goes. um consist

This is this right here

Let's be real

Welches is a jelly

Not the same consistency as the uh jam

The jam is firmer

The jam um the texture of it is you would think it's more clumpy, but it's just the way jam is made

So, this

is a jam

This is a jelly

This is uh preserves

All could be used on the sandwich

So, let's get right into sugar-free

Good

Um, not as sweet as you normally have like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but it's very fresh

It's very light

Um, it doesn't overpower you, but

it does remind you of grape juice, obviously, cuz it's made from Concord grapes, and fig juice is made from Concord grapes

So the mouth feel is just more gummy

It's more gelatinous

Um whereas jelly is not like that

So if you're wondering if you want a jam, do you like a more

gummy bear like after you chew a mouth feel or do you want something a little more smoother? So taste wise, this is good

I like it

It's fresh

For some reason, it's not as sweet, which I like, but for some reason, I don't know if it's because it says sugar-free

Yeah, I know

After you drink something

sugar-free, you kind of get this taste in your mouth

Everybody know what I'm talking about

If you've ever had something sugar-free, you drunk it, Red B

It leaves a aftertaste in your mouth

That is This does it too

So, we'll get to nutrition in a second

I wonder if it's has like I

don't know if it's aspartame or something in it. artificial sweeteners will leave that aftertaste

Um, let's go to private selects

Blueberry preserve made with real fruit

Okay

Made with real fruit

I don't know why everyone would be made real few fruit

Same way here

This is

is definitely more like a jam

More like a compost or like a preserve

This is a preserve

So, definitely a different texture than jelly is. a lot sweeter

Tons way more sweeter than this is

Put a little bit of that back

Okay

Um I don't know if it needs to be that

sweet, honestly

Um I do taste a hint of See, this is the difference is this tastes like blueberries smell when they're ripe

And that's that's I don't know why that's not throwing me off, but it tastes like a blueberry a sweet blueberry smells

like how you would imagine blueberry to smell

That's how this tastes

Um same mouth feel as this one

Um I like it though

It's just sweet

Real sweet

Um but it's it's jelly

It is what it is

So let's get over here to the Welches

Welches is um how do I do this?

Sweet as can be, too

Boy, man, when after you have a sugar-free one, everything tastes a lot more sweeter because this was more fresh, a lot more easygoing

These two more aggressive

Um, this is the originator

I feel like people been eating Welches and GIF peanut butter their whole life, but um

super sweet, a lot easier to dissolve

Um it's a lot better of a mouth feel

Texture-wise, it's easier

I imagine this is going to be easier to spread on a bun, too

Uh but when it comes to taste, if I have to give one a winner, it's going to go to this one

Uh what is

this called? Paloners, I think that's what it's called

I don't know

P O L A N E R

This is a lot smoother, a lot easier

Um, yeah

Taste right here

You got your taste

Now, let's go to nutr

Let's go to price next

Price is um uh what do we pay for this? Pay pay for the boners

It was $4.29 for this one.

The blueberry uh preserves was $4.99

The Welches is 309, which I'm not the So every time the person who wins won't be the cheapest because there are sometimes you just can't compete with such big companies because they have buying power

They have you just can't compete

with them

So just because it's the cheapest, it won't win every single time on this show because a lot of other factors I want to go into the price like the value of it

Yeah, cheap things are cheap

Some things have value so they cost more

So therefore that the price is right too

So when it comes to tape I

mean when it comes to price even though I I'm gonna have to give the price man this is tough

These are this is $2 more almost

This is a dollar 30 $120 more than this is

I mean, sheesh

I mean, price this time, even though I said what I just said, does not make me a hypocrite

The price has to go

to Welches

Um, you get more, you pay less

Uh, that sound like a commercial

Uh, so price goes to Welches

When it comes to nutrition, let's see what they're talking about

This uh gourmet blueberry preserve

Uh, sheesh. it it's just high in um added sugars. 25% of your daily value has in

each serving it has 18 servings in this container, but in each serving you're going to get 12 grams of added sugar, which is roughly about 25% of your daily value mattering your weight and stuff

Let's go to the sugar-free

Um I mean shoot

uh I mean sugar is a zero

Um, everything else is I mean dietary fibers, but it it's adding fiber

Fiber is good

Um, 10 calories per serving

This is 50 calories per serving

I believe they're both the same serving size

Uh, when it comes to Welches, Welches is 50 calories per serving.

Welches has less sugar than this one does, surprisingly

Um, yeah, less sugar

Um, nine grams here, 12 grams here, 18% of your daily value, 25% of daily value

And the winner of nutrition goes to Paloners again

So, man, this is going to be easy

We got Taste going to

Paloners

We got Price going to Welches

We got Nutrition going to Plers

We have the winner going to Paloners

Hopefully, I said you right

If I did say you right, you just tell us how to say this thing

So, the winner of this battle of the jellies, the grape jelly, the blueberry jelly, all kind of the same.

Um, the Concord jelly is going to go to Palmer's

Man, that does not mean this wasn't great

Doesn't mean this wasn't what we always know it is

But when it comes to everything, the whole pie, not just one slice of the pie

It has to go here

Um, there's not a knock here, not a knock here

It just it's just the one

today

So, on this episode of Super Chefer Supermarket, we have our winner of our versus

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Episode description

It’s a jelly showdown! 🥊 In this video, we pit Welch’s, Polaner, and Private Selection jelly head-to-head in the ultimate taste test. Which one delivers the best flavor, texture, and spreadability? Is the name brand worth it, or does the store brand surprise us all? 🍇🫐 Join us as we break down each jelly by taste, ingredients, and value to find out who takes the crown in this fruity battle. Don’t spread another slice of toast without watching this first! 👉 Like, comment, and let us know YOUR favorite jelly! #JellyBattle #WelchsVsPolaner #FoodReview #TasteTest #JellyShowdown #superchefvssupermarket #grocery #nutrition