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Marmalade

Marmalade is a gelatinous fruit preserve made with sugar and water, sometimes with spices. Cooks use it as a condiment or sauce.

Texture
Gelatinous
Cooked most in
Europe
Top country
Italy
Marmalade, prepared

Photo: Miansari66 · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use marmalade

Made from

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture

  • Gelatinous

Nutrition

What 100 g of marmalade holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 0%Fat 0%Carbohydrate 100%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of marmalade
Energy246 kcal · 1,029 kJ
Protein0.3 g
Fat0 g
of which saturated0 g
Carbohydrate66 g
of which sugars60 g
Fibre0.7 g
Sodium56 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of marmalade: minerals and vitamins
Potassium37 mg
Calcium38 mg
Iron0.15 mg
Magnesium2 mg
Zinc0.04 mg
Vitamin C4.8 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)3 µg
Folate9 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 168819), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where marmalade is cooked

1 dish in the catalogue uses marmalade. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list marmalade among their ingredients.

Origins

  1. The 1500s · Spain, Italy and United Kingdom

    Quince marmalade was imported into England from Spain and Italy.

  2. The 1700s · United Kingdom

    Scottish recipes used extra water to make a softer spread.

  3. 1714

    Mary Kettilby's cookbook included the first printed orange marmalade recipe.

  4. 1773 · United Kingdom

    James Boswell and Samuel Johnson received marmalade at a Scottish breakfast.

  5. The 1800s · United Kingdom

    Eating marmalade in the morning became an English practice.

  6. 2014 · United Kingdom

    The film Paddington gave UK marmalade sales a small boost.

Family

Related forms

A kind of
fruit preserves

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What marmalade is called

Names in 71 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    mermelada

  • French

    marmelade

  • Italian

    marmellata

  • Portuguese

    doce de citrinos

  • German

    Marmelade

  • Dutch

    marmelade · Marmelade (jam)

  • Greek

    μαρμελάδα

  • Turkish

    marmelat

  • Russian

    британский мармелад · мармелад (джем) · джем · конфитюр

  • Polish

    marmolada

  • Arabic

    مرملاد

  • Persian

    مارمالاد

Show all 71 languages

  • Afrikaans

    marmelade

  • Armenian

    մարմելադ

  • Azerbaijani

    marmelad

  • Basque

    marmelada

  • Belarusian

    мармелад

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    мармэляд

  • Bosnian

    marmelada

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    doce de citrinos

  • Breton

    Marmeladenn

  • Bulgarian

    мармалад

  • Catalan

    mermelada · melmelada

  • Chinese

    柑橘醬

  • Chuvash

    мармелад

  • Cornish

    marmelada

  • Croatian

    marmelada

  • Czech

    marmeláda

  • Danish

    marmelade · syltetøj

  • Esperanto

    marmelado

  • Estonian

    marmelaad

  • Filipino

    marmelada

  • Finnish

    marmeladi

  • Galician

    marmelada

  • Georgian

    მარმელადი

  • Hebrew

    מרמלדה

  • Hungarian

    marmeládé

  • Ido

    marmelado

  • Indonesian

    marmalade

  • Interlingua

    marmelada

  • Japanese

    マーマレード

  • Javanese

    marmalade

  • Kannada

    ಮಾರ್ಮಲೇಡ್

  • Kazakh

    мармелад · Джем

  • Korean

    마멀레이드

  • Kyrgyz

    Мармелад

  • Latin

    Marmelata · poma condita

  • Latvian

    marmelāde

  • Lithuanian

    marmeladas

  • Low Saxon

    marmelade

  • Macedonian

    мармалад

  • Malay

    Marmalad

  • Northern Frisian

    Marmeloode

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    marmelade

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    marmelade

  • Romanian

    marmeladă

  • Scots

    marmalade

  • Serbian

    marmelada

  • Serbian (Latin)

    marmelada

  • Sicilian

    marmillata

  • Simplified Chinese

    柑橘酱

  • Skolt Sami

    marmelaad

  • Slovak

    marmeláda

  • Slovenian

    marmelada

  • Swedish

    marmelad

  • Swiss German

    Marmelade

  • Traditional Chinese

    柑橘醬

  • Turkmen

    marmelád

  • Ukrainian

    мармелад

  • Upper Sorbian

    marmelada

  • Uzbek

    marmelad

  • Vietnamese

    marmalade

  • Waray

    Marmelada

  • Welsh

    Marmalêd · marmalêd · Marmaled · marmaled

  • Wu Chinese

    柑橘酱

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q5834964

Photos

Photo: Miansari66 · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons