Roscherrs Fine Foods
Cheese in Montagu

Roscherr's is an innovative range of 100% fruit jams & marmalades (no cane sugar added), savoury jams and traditional preserves. The products are all Choice Grade and contains NO added preservatives, No flavourings or colourants. The 100% Fruit range is sweetened with Grape Concentrate and contains no cane sugar. The factory is HACCP and SAFSIS accredited - we comply with the highest food health & safety regulations.

Roscherr’s focuses on responsible, environmental friendly and safe production of our products, using only the best ingredients and the latest technology available, supported by a team of totally committed employees. Quality checks are done continuously by both internal and external auditors ensuring the highest standards possible. Every single fruit and ingredient entering Roscherr’s factory is quality checked. We use no artificial preservatives, colourant, flavourants or genetically modified fruits in our products. Jam is a fruit spread where fruit is cooked together with water and sugar. Preserves are large chunks of fruit or whole fruit in clear syrup. Traditional preserves are whole fruit in syrup e.g. Jam and Preserve is sometimes used interchangeably. Marmalades have traditionally been made with citrus. It is made with the peel and the flesh of oranges, grapefruit, naartjies and lemons. Jelly is a clear fruit spread made by a similar process to jam but where the fruit pulp is filtered after the initial cooking. Relishes are typically made with dried fruit, vinegar and spices. This includes the fruit content and quality and set of the product. We mark the shelf life of unopened products at three years even though traditional jams can be stored for much longer. The lower the sugar content the shorter the shelf live. Because we use no colourants in any of our products, there may be a colour variance between bottles of the same product. There are many factors that affect the colour and set of the jam e.g. For example, the fruit in a wetter season tends to have less pectin and will therefore not set as firmly as fruit with higher pectin. Soft fruits like cherries, grapes and strawberries have less pectin than hard fruit such as apples, quince and citrus (peels). We add a natural apple pectin to get the legally required set. All fruit and sugar have a certain level of acidity or alkalinity. The ideal PH for preserves or jams is between 3.0 and 3.3. Gently warm the product in hot water until the crystals dissolve. We practice good manufacturing business principles. We have obtained A rating in the SAFSIS Food Audit. We have completed the internationally accepted HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) audit. We are able to trace the supplier of every ingredient in every product we sell. Therefor if we have a problem with any product we can trace the batch and recall it from the market. The sweetness counter (Brix) is less than for traditional jams. We use cane sugar (just like your grandmother and mother did) to sweeten the jams. Sugar is used as a preservative in traditional jams. The higher the Brix the better preserved the jam (and the sweeter the jams). It has not been tested and does not claim to be suitable for diabetics. It is a healthier option and in small quantities should not be a problem. The jams and marmalades are sweetened with Sorbitol instead of cane sugar and still retain their abundant fruit flavours.