Is relish healthy

Answer 1

There are different kinds of relish. "Regular" green relish is just sweet pickles, ground up.

Pickling is one of the oldest means of preserving foods. Sometimes, dill pickles are brined for as long as a decade before they are desalinated and packed in jars as dill pickles. Sweet pickles are basically dill pickles that have been soaked in a syrup for up to a month or longer.

Sugar is a preservative, too. While many people (including me) prefer the taste of sweet pickles or relish at refrigerator temperatures, it is not necessary to refrigerate good sweet pickles or relish to prevent spoilage. If you get a dill pickle at the deli, it's fished out of pickling juice, because otherwise it would spoil.

So you can consider sweet pickle relish to be doubly healthful, both for the pickling and for the syrup.

The biggest single difference in sweet pickles and relish is the strength of the syrup. Syrups are rated in degrees baume. A high baume syrup, such as used by Sechler's Pickles, contains more sugar than the syrup used by manufacturers of generic pickles and relishes. Considering how far a jar of relish goes, it would be false economy to use the less expensive stuff unless you are putting it on the cheapest of Hot Dogs and day-old buns, to feed visitors you wish would return to their own home,

It's easy and fun to make your own pickles and relishes. You'll find complete instructions in the "Ball Blue Book" or the "Kerr Red Book", published by the manufacturers of mason jars. You can also get a booklet from your county co-op extension office that gives full details.