I've decided if I ever grow up I'm going to be a SOB, have created a minor panic with the un-washed masses I know, luckily I don't know a lot of them.
I make a point a lot of times that before you go all panicky and cry "The Sky is Falling" you should learn all the facts, if you don't want to learn the facts then don't panic. Funny how not knowing the true meaning of words causes so much problems, if this goes viral it could ruin Smuckers.
" Well as I sit here and work, I realize we don't have enough to worry about so in case you don't know it, pectin a natural occurring carbohydrate in fruit is used to make jellies and jams gel. Well according to the research when heated for a long enough time to a high enough temperature, pectin forms long polymer chains. Now we all know polymer is the term they want us to use for plastic today because plastic somehow became a term for cheap polymers years ago.
So the pulp in jam and the skins in fruit preserves just add reinforcement for the plastic, like the cloth in old time Bakelite or the glass cloth in epoxy bases structures.
Hmmm, food for thought, I think I need another cup."
Yep, at least one person so far was never going to eat jelly because Polymers are bad.
http://www.pslc.ws/macrog/kidsmac/natural.htm Lucky I have it simple for such.