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