Jelly

Name:
Jelly
Detailed information:
A modified form of the word gel widely used in popular language but also used in chemical literature to refer to the mechanical strength of the gel structures occurring with pectins, gelatin, and various natural gums. “Jelly strength” is frequently specified in the food industry. Other uses of the word are found in “petroleum jelly” obtained as a distillation product of petroleum residues (petrolatum) and in the so-called royal jelly, a natural nutrient mixture of proteins and carbohydrates produced by bees as food for the queen bee.See Gel.