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Jell-O is a brand name belonging to U.S.-based Kraft Foods
Kraft Foods

Kraft Foods, Inc. is the second-largest food and beverage company headquartered in the United States and the third largest in the world .The Philip Morris Company , acquired Kraft for $12.9 billion in 1988, eventually merging it with another food subsidiary, General Foods, which it had acquired in 1985....
 for a number of gelatin dessert
Gelatin dessert

The most common culinary use for gelatin is as a main ingredient in varieties of gelatin desserts. Unprepared gelatin for desserts is often marketed as a flavored powder or concentrated gelatinous solid....
s, including fruit gels, pudding
Pudding

Pudding most often refers to a dessert, but can also be a savoury dish.In the United Kingdom and some Commonwealth of Nations countries, pudding refers to rich , fairly homogeneous starch- or dairy-based desserts , or informally to any dessert....
s and no-bake cream pie
Cream pie

A cream pie is a type of pie filled with a rich custard or pudding that is made from milk, cream, flour, and eggs. It can come in many forms, including vanilla, lemon, Lime , banana, coconut, and chocolate....
s. The brand's popularity has led to its becoming a generic term
Genericized trademark

A genericized trademark is a trademark or brand name that has become the colloquialism or generic description for a general class of Good or Service , rather than the specific meaning intended by the trademark's holder....
 for gelatin dessert
Gelatin dessert

The most common culinary use for gelatin is as a main ingredient in varieties of gelatin desserts. Unprepared gelatin for desserts is often marketed as a flavored powder or concentrated gelatinous solid....
 across the US and Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
. Because of this, in the United States, packages of Jell-O are marked as Jell-O Brand.
Description
Jell-O is sold prepared (ready to eat) or in powder form, and it is available in many different colors and flavors.






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Jell-O is a brand name belonging to U.S.-based Kraft Foods
Kraft Foods

Kraft Foods, Inc. is the second-largest food and beverage company headquartered in the United States and the third largest in the world .The Philip Morris Company , acquired Kraft for $12.9 billion in 1988, eventually merging it with another food subsidiary, General Foods, which it had acquired in 1985....
 for a number of gelatin dessert
Gelatin dessert

The most common culinary use for gelatin is as a main ingredient in varieties of gelatin desserts. Unprepared gelatin for desserts is often marketed as a flavored powder or concentrated gelatinous solid....
s, including fruit gels, pudding
Pudding

Pudding most often refers to a dessert, but can also be a savoury dish.In the United Kingdom and some Commonwealth of Nations countries, pudding refers to rich , fairly homogeneous starch- or dairy-based desserts , or informally to any dessert....
s and no-bake cream pie
Cream pie

A cream pie is a type of pie filled with a rich custard or pudding that is made from milk, cream, flour, and eggs. It can come in many forms, including vanilla, lemon, Lime , banana, coconut, and chocolate....
s. The brand's popularity has led to its becoming a generic term
Genericized trademark

A genericized trademark is a trademark or brand name that has become the colloquialism or generic description for a general class of Good or Service , rather than the specific meaning intended by the trademark's holder....
 for gelatin dessert
Gelatin dessert

The most common culinary use for gelatin is as a main ingredient in varieties of gelatin desserts. Unprepared gelatin for desserts is often marketed as a flavored powder or concentrated gelatinous solid....
 across the US and Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
. Because of this, in the United States, packages of Jell-O are marked as Jell-O Brand.

Description


Jell-O is sold prepared (ready to eat) or in powder form, and it is available in many different colors and flavors. The powder contains powdered gelatin
Gelatin

Gelatin is a translucent, colorless, brittle, nearly tasteless solid, derived from the collagen inside animals' skin and mostly bones. It has been commonly used as a gelling agent in food, pharmaceutical, photography, and cosmetic manufacturing....
 and flavorings including sugar
Sugar

Sugar is a class of edible crystalline substances, mainly sucrose, lactose, and fructose. Human taste buds interpret its flavor as sweet. Sugar as a basic food carbohydrate primarily comes from sugar cane and from sugar beet, but also appears in fruit, honey, sorghum, sugar maple , and in many other sources....
 or artificial sweeteners. It is dissolved in very hot water
Water

Water is a common chemical substance that is essential for the survival of all known forms of life. In typical usage, water refers only to its liquid form or States of matter, but the substance also has a solid state, ice, and a gaseous state, water vapor or steam....
, then chilled and allowed to set. Sometimes fruit
Fruit

The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. In botany, which is the scientific study of plants, fruits are the ripened Ovary of flowering plants....
, vegetable
Vegetable

The term "vegetable" generally means the Eating parts of plants. The definition of the word is traditional rather than scientific, however, and therefore the usage of the word is somewhat arbitrary and subjective, as it is determined by individual cultural customs of food selection and food preparation....
s, whipped cream
Whipped cream

Whipped cream is cream, often sweetened, whipped with air. Cream with 30% or more fat can be mixed with air, and the resulting colloid is roughly double the volume of the original cream as air bubbles are captured in a network of fat droplets....
, or other ingredients are added to make often elaborate desserts that can be molded into various shapes. Jell-O must be refrigerated
Refrigerator

A refrigerator is a cooling appliance comprising a thermal insulation compartment and a heat pump - a mechanism to transfer heat from it to the external environment, cooling the contents to a temperature below ambient....
 until served, and once set properly, it is normally eaten with a spoon
Spoon

A spoon is a utensil consisting of a small shallow bowl, oval or round, at the end of a handle. A type of cutlery , especially as part of a table setting, it is used primarily for serving and eating liquid or semisolid food , and solid foods such as rice and cereal which cannot easily be lifted with a fork....
 but sometimes with a fork
Fork

As a piece of cutlery or kitchenware, a fork is a tool consisting of a handle with several narrow Tine on one end. The fork, as an eating utensil, has been a feature primarily of the West, whereas in East Asia chopsticks have been more prevalent....
. Fresh pineapple, orange juice, kiwi, gingerroot, papaya, figs or guava, if added to the mixture, will cause the Jell-o mixture to stay in its liquid state. There are also non-gelatin pudding and pie filling products under the Jell-O brand: To make pudding, these are cooked on stovetop with milk
Milk

Milk is an opaque white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals . It provides the primary source of nutrition for newborn mammals before they are able to digestion other types of food....
, then either eaten warm or chilled until more firmly set, or in the case of the “instant” line, simply mixed with cold milk and then chilled. To make pie fillings, the same products are simply prepared with less liquid.

Though the word Jell-O is a name brand, it is commonly used in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 as a generic name for all products of this kind. Often Jell-O is used as an easily accessible low-calorie snack.

Jell-O violates vegan and vegetarian diets, because it contains gelatin, which is made from animal products.

History

Gelatin has been well known and used for many years. It was popularized in the Victorian era
Victorian era

The Victorian Era of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the period of Victoria of the United Kingdom reign from June 1837 to January 1901....
 with spectacular and complex "jelly moulds". Gelatin was sold in sheets and had to be purified, which was very time-consuming. It also made gelatin desserts the province of the relatively well-to-do. In 1845, industrialist Peter Cooper
Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper was an United States industrialist, inventor, philanthropist, and candidate for President of the United States....
 (who built the first American steam
Steam

In physical chemistry, and in engineering, steam refers to vaporized water. It is a pure, completely invisible gaseous phase . At standard temperature and pressure, pure steam occupies about 1,600 times the volume of an equal mass of liquid water....
-powered locomotive
Locomotive

A locomotive is a Rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin language loco - "from a place", Ablative case of locus, "place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine,....
, the Tom Thumb
Tom Thumb (locomotive)

Tom Thumb was the first United States-built steam locomotive used on a common-carrier railroad. Designed and built by Peter Cooper in 1830, it was designed to convince owners of the newly formed Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to use steam engines....
), obtained a patent
Patent

A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to an inventor or his assignee for a term of patent in exchange for a disclosure of an invention....
 (US Patent 4084) for powdered gelatin.

Forty years later the patent was sold to a LeRoy, New York
Le Roy (town), New York

Le Roy or more commonly LeRoy is a town in Genesee County, New York, New York, United States. The population was 7,790 at the 2000 census....
-based carpenter and cough syrup manufacturer, Pearle B. Wait. He and his wife May added strawberry
Strawberry

Fragaria is the name of a genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, commonly known as strawberries for their edible fruits....
, raspberry
Raspberry

The raspberry is the edible fruit of a multitude of plant species in the subgenus Rubus#Scientific classification of the genus Rubus; the name also applies to these plants themselves....
, orange
Orange (fruit)

An orange?specifically, the sweet orange?is the citrus Citrus sinensis and its fruit. The orange is a Hybrid of ancient cultivated origin, possibly between pomelo and tangerine ....
 and lemon
Lemon

The lemon is the common name for Citrus limon. The reproductive tissue surrounds the seed of the angiosperm lemon tree. The lemon is used for culinary and nonculinary purposes throughout the world....
 flavoring to the powder and gave the product its present name in 1897. Unable to successfully market their concoction, in 1899 the Waits sold the business to a neighbor, Orator Francis Woodward, for $450.

Beginning in 1902, Woodward's Genesee Pure Food Company placed advertisements in the Ladies' Home Journal
Ladies' Home Journal

Ladies' Home Journal is a magazine which first appeared February 16, 1883 and eventually became one of the leading magazines of the 20th Century, published by the Curtis Publishing Company....
 proclaiming Jell-O to be "America's Most Famous Dessert." Jell-O remained a minor success until 1904, when Genesee Pure Food Company sent enormous numbers of salesman out into the field to distribute free Jell-O cookbooks, a pioneering marketing tactic at the time. Within a decade, three new flavors, chocolate
Chocolate

Chocolate comprises a number of raw and processed foods that are produced from the seed of the tropical cacao tree.Chocolate has become one of the most popular flavors in the world....
 (discontinued in 1927), cherry
Cherry

The word cherry refers to a fleshy fruit that contains a single stony seed. The cherry belongs to the family Rosaceae, genus Prunus, along with almonds, peaches, plums, apricots and bird cherry ....
 and peach
Peach

The peach is known as a species of Prunus native to China that bears an edible juicy fruit also called a peach. It is a deciduous tree growing to 5?10 m tall, belonging to the subfamily Prunoideae of the family Rosaceae....
, were added, and the brand was launched in Canada. Celebrity
Celebrity

A celebrity is a widely-recognized or notable person who commands a high degree of public and media attention. The word stems from the Latin verb "celebrare" but one may not become a celebrity unless public and mass media interest is piqued....
 testimonials and recipes appeared in advertisements featuring actress Ethel Barrymore
Ethel Barrymore

Ethel Barrymore was an Academy Awards-winning United States actress and a member of the Celebrity Barrymore family....
 and opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
 singer Ernestine Schumann-Heink
Ernestine Schumann-Heink

Ernestine Schumann-Heink was a celebrated operatic contralto, noted for the beauty, tonal richness, flexibility and wide range of her voice....
.

In 1923, the newly rechristened Jell-O Company launched D-Zerta, an artificially sweetened version of Jell-O. Two years later, Postum
Postum

Postum was a powdered roasted grain beverage sold by the Kraft Foods company as a coffee substitute. The caffeine-free beverage mix was created by company founder C....
 and Genesee merged, and in 1927 Postum acquired Clarence Birdseye's
Clarence Birdseye

Clarence Frank Birdseye II was an U.S.A. inventor who is considered the founder of the modern frozen food industry....
 frozen foods company to form the General Foods Corporation. By 1930, there appeared a vogue in American cuisine
American cuisine

American cuisine can refer to the cuisine of several regions:*Latin American cuisine*North American cuisine*cuisine of the United States...
 for congealed salads, and the company introduced lime
Lime (fruit)

Lime is a term referring to a number of different fruits , both species and Hybrid , which are typically round, green to yellow in color, 3?6 cm in diameter, generally containing sour pulp, and frequently associated with the lemon....
-flavored Jell-O to complement the various add-ins that cooks across the U.S. were combining in these aspic
ASPIC

ASPIC may be:* Advanced Space Propulsion Investigation Committee* Advanced SCSI Programmable Interrupt Controller* Application Service Provider Industry Consortium...
s and salads. By the 1950s, these salads would become so popular that Jell-O responded with savory and vegetable flavors such as celery
Celery

Apium graveolens is a plant species in the family Apiaceae commonly known as celery or celeriac depending on whether the petioles or roots are eaten....
, Italian
Italian cuisine

Italian cuisine as a national cuisine known today has evolved through centuries of social and political changes, with its roots traced back to 4th century BC....
, mixed vegetable and seasoned tomato
Tomato

The Tomato is an herbaceous, usually sprawling plant in the Solanaceae or nightshade family, as are its close cousins Nicotiana, potatoes, aubergine , chilli peppers, and the poisonous Atropa belladonna....
. These savory flavors have since been discontinued.

In 1934, sponsorship from Jell-O made comedian Jack Benny
Jack Benny

Jack Benny was an American comedian, vaudeville, and actor for radio programming, television, and film.Widely recognized as one of the leading American entertainers of the 20th century, Benny was known for his comic timing and his ability to get laughs with either a pregnant pause or a single expression, such as his signature exasperated "...
 the dessert's spokesperson. At this time also was introduced a jingle
Jingle

A jingle is a memorable slogan, set to an engaging melody, mainly Broadcasting on radio and sometimes on television commercials.History ...
 (created by the agency Young & Rubicam
Young & Rubicam

Young & Rubicam, Inc. is a marketing and marketing communications company specializing in advertising, public relations, sales promotion, direct marketing and brand identity consulting....
) that would be familiar over the next several decades, in which the spelling "J-E-L-L-O" was (or could be) sung over a rising five-note musical theme.

In 1936, chocolate returned to the Jell-O lineup, this time as an instant pudding made with milk. It proved enormously popular and over time other pudding flavors were added such as vanilla
Vanilla

Vanilla is a flavoring derived from orchids of the genus Vanilla native to Mexico. Etymologically, vanilla derives from the Spanish language word "", little pod....
, tapioca
Tapioca

Tapioca is a flavorless, colorless, odorless starch extracted from the root of the plant species Manihot esculenta. This species, native to South America, is now cultivated worldwide and has many names, including cassava, bitter-cassava, manioc, "mandioca", "aipim", "macaxeira", "manioca", "boba", "yuca" , "Sabudana" and "kappa"....
, coconut
Coconut

The Coconut Palm is a member of the Family Arecaceae . It is the only species in the genus Cocos, and is a large palm, growing to 30 m tall, with pinnate leaf 4-6 m long, pinnae 60-90 cm long; old leaves break away cleanly leaving the trunk smooth....
, pistachio
Pistachio

The pistachio is a small tree native to mountainous regions of Iran, Turkmenistan, Turkey and western Afghanistan, that produces an important nut #Culinary definition and uses....
, butterscotch
Butterscotch

Butterscotch is a type of confectionery whose primary ingredients are brown sugar and butter. Other ingredients such as corn syrup, cream, vanilla, and salt are typically part of the recipe also....
, egg
Egg (food)

An egg is a round or oval body laid by the female of many animals, consisting of an ovum surrounded by layers of membranes and an outer casing, which acts to nourish and protect a developing embryo and its nutrient reserves....
 custard
Custard

Custard is a range of preparations based on milk and Egg s, thickened with heat. Most commonly, custard refers to a dessert or dessert sauce, but custard bases are also used for quiches and other savoury foods....
, flan
Flan

Cr?me caramel, flan, or caramel custard is a rich custard dessert with a layer of soft caramel on top, as opposed to cr?me br?l?e, which is custard with a hard caramel top....
 and rice
Rice

Rice is a staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in tropical Latin America, and East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia, making it the second-most consumed cereal grain, after maize....
 pudding.

New flavors continued to be added and unsuccessful ones were removed: in the 1950s and 1960s, apple
APPLE

This article is about the satellite APPLE. For the fruit apple, see Apple. For other uses see Apple .The Ariane Passenger PayLoad Experiment , was an experimental communication satellite with a C-Band transponder launched by Indian Space Research Organisation satellite on June 19, 1981 by Ariane 1, a launch vehicle of the European Spac...
, black cherry
Black Cherry

Prunus serotina, commonly called Black Cherry, Wild Black Cherry, Rum Cherry, or Mountain Black Cherry, is a woody plant species belonging to the genus Prunus....
, black raspberry
Black raspberry

Black raspberry is a common name for two closely related species of the genus Rubus:*Rubus leucodermis, native to western North America...
, grape
Grape

File:Table grapes on white.jpgA grape is the non-Climacteric #In_botany fruit that grows on the Perennial plant and deciduous woody vines of the genus Vitis....
, lemon-lime, mixed fruit, orange-banana
Banana

File:Banana and cross section.jpgBanana is the common name for a fruit and also the herbaceous plants of the genus Musa which produce this commonly eaten fruit....
, pineapple
Pineapple

Pineapple is the common name for an edible tropical plant and also its fruit. It is native to the southern part of Brazil, and Paraguay. This herbaceous plant perennial plant grows to tall with 30 or more trough-shaped and pointed leaves long, surrounding a thick plant stem....
-grapefruit
Grapefruit

The grapefruit is a subtropics citrus tree grown for its bitter fruit which was originally named the "forbidden fruit" of Barbados.These evergreen trees are usually found at around 5-6 m tall, although they can reach 13-15 m ....
, blackberry
BlackBerry

The BlackBerry is a wireless handheld device introduced in 1999 as a two-way pager. In 2002, the more commonly known smartphone BlackBerry was released, which supports push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, internet faxing, web browsing and other wireless information services as well as a multi-touch interface....
, strawberry-banana, tropical fruit and more intense "wild" versions of the venerable strawberry, raspberry and cherry. In 1966, the Jell-O "No-Bake" dessert line was launched, which allowed a cheesecake
Cheesecake

Cheesecake is a large family of sweet, cheese-based tarts and cakes.Cheesecakes are generally made with soft, fresh cheeses. Other ingredients such as sugar, eggs, flour, and liquids are often mixed in as well....
 to be made in 15 minutes. In 1971 pre-packaged prepared pudding called Jell-O Pudding Treats were introduced. During this same period, 1-2-3 Jell-O, a gelatin dessert that separated into three layers as it cooled was unveiled. Until 1987, 1-2-3 Jell-O could readily be found in grocery stores throughout most of the United States, but the dessert is now extremely rare. Jell-O Whip 'n Chill, a mousse-style dessert, was also introduced and widely promoted; it also remains available only in limited areas today.

In 1964, the slogan
Slogan

A slogan is a memorable motto or phrase used in a political, commerce, religious and other context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose....
 "There's always room for Jell-O" was introduced, promoting the product as a "light dessert" that could easily be consumed even after a heavy meal.

In 1974, comedian Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby

William Henry "Bill" Cosby Jr. is an American comedian, actor, author, television producer and activist. A veteran stand-up performer, he got his start at various clubs, then landed a vanguard role in the 1960s action show I Spy....
 became the company's pudding spokesperson, and continued to serve as the voice of Jell-O for almost thirty years. Over the course of his tenure as the mouthpiece for the company, he would hawk new products such as frozen Jell-O Pops (in both gelatin and pudding varieties); the new Sugar-Free Jell-O, which replaced D-Zerta in 1984 and was sweetened with NutraSweet
NutraSweet

NutraSweet is a company that makes and sells aspartame, an artificial sugar substitute. NutraSweet is also the brand name for the sweetener aspartame, which was discovered in 1965 by James M....
; Jell-O Jigglers concentrated gummi snacks; and Sparkling Jell-O, a carbonated version of the dessert touted as the "Champagne of Jell-O."

In 1989, General Foods was merged into Kraft Foods by parent company Philip Morris
Altria Group

Altria Group, Inc. , based in Henrico County, Virginia, is the parent company of Philip Morris USA, John Middleton, Inc. and Philip Morris Capital Corporation, and is one of the world's largest tobacco corporations....
 (now the Altria Group). New flavors were continually introduced: watermelon
Watermelon

Watermelon refers to both fruit and plant of a vine-like herb originally from southern Africa and one of the most common types of melon. This flowering plant produces a special type of fruit known by botany as a Epigynous berry, which has a thick Peel and fleshy center ; pepos are derived from an inferior ovary and are characteristic of...
, blueberry
Blueberry

Blueberries are flowering plants in the genus Vaccinium, sect. Cyanococcus. The species are native only to North America. They are shrubs varying in size from 10 cm tall to 4 m tall; the smaller species are known as "lowbush blueberries" , and the larger species as "highbush blueberries"....
, cranberry
Cranberry

Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines in the genus Vaccinium subgenus Oxycoccos, or in some treatments, in the distinct genus Oxycoccos....
, margarita
Margarita

The Margarita is the most common tequila-based cocktail, made with tequila mixed with triple sec and lime or lemon juice, often served with salt on the glass rim....
 and piña colada
Piña Colada

The pi?a colada is a sweet, rum-based cocktail made with light rum, coconut cream, and pineapple juice, usually served either blended or shaken with ice....
 among others. In 2001, Green Jell-O was declared the "Official State Snack"
List of Utah state symbols

This is a list of symbols of the U.S. State of Utah. The majority of the items in the list are officially recognized symbols created by an act of the Utah State Legislature, signed into law by the Governor of Utah, and listed in Utah Code, Title 63, Chapter 13, Section 5.5, "State symbols."...
 of Utah
Utah

The State of Utah is a western United States U.S. state of the United States. It was the List of U.S. states by date of statehood admitted to the United States on January 4, 1896....
, with Governor Michael O. Leavitt declaring an annual "Jell-O Week."

, there are more than 158 products sold under the Jell-O brand name and about 300 million boxes of Jell-O gelatin sold in the United States each year.

Jell-O is also used as a substantial ingredient in a well-known dessert, a "Jell-O mold" the preparation of which requires a mold
Mold (food)

A mold is used in various techniques of food preparation to shape the finished Dish ....
 designed to hold gelatin, and the depositing of small quantities of chopped fruit, nuts, and other ingredients before it hardens and takes on its typical form. Fresh pineapple, papaya, kiwi, and ginger root cannot be used because they contain enzymes that prevent the gelatin from "setting."

Jell-O shots


A popular alternative recipe calls for the addition of an alcoholic beverage
Alcoholic beverage

An alcoholic beverage is a drink containing ethanol . Alcoholic beverages are divided into three general classes: beers, wines, and distilled beverage....
 to the mix, contributing approximately one third to one half of the liquid added after the gelatin has been dissolved in the boil. A serving of the resulting mixture is called a "Jell-O shot". The quantity and timing of the addition of the alcohol are vital aspects; it is not possible to make Jell-O shots with pure alcohol:

Manufacturing and tourism


, LeRoy, New York, is still known as the home of Jell-O and has the only Jell-O Museum in the world, which is located on the main road through the small town. Jell-O was manufactured here until General Foods closed the plant in 1964 and relocated manufacturing to Dover, Delaware
Dover, Delaware

The city of Dover is the capital and second largest city in the U.S. state of Delaware. It is also the county seat of Kent County, Delaware, and the principal city of the Dover, Delaware Dover metropolitan area which encompasses all of Kent County....
.

At the museum, visitors can learn about the history of the dessert from its inception. Visitors starting on East Main Street, follow Jell-O Brick Road, whose stones are inscribed with the names of former factory employees. The museum offers looks at starting materials for Jell-O, such as sturgeon's bladder and calve's hoofs, and various molds.

Current flavors of Jell-O desserts


Gelatin

  • Apricot
    Apricot

    The Apricot is a species of Prunus, classified with the plum in the subgenus Prunus. The native range is somewhat uncertain due to its extensive prehistoric cultivation, but most likely in northern and western China and Central Asia, possibly also Korea and Japan....
  • Berry Blue
    Blueberry

    Blueberries are flowering plants in the genus Vaccinium, sect. Cyanococcus. The species are native only to North America. They are shrubs varying in size from 10 cm tall to 4 m tall; the smaller species are known as "lowbush blueberries" , and the larger species as "highbush blueberries"....
  • Black Cherry
    Black Cherry

    Prunus serotina, commonly called Black Cherry, Wild Black Cherry, Rum Cherry, or Mountain Black Cherry, is a woody plant species belonging to the genus Prunus....
  • Cherry
    Cherry

    The word cherry refers to a fleshy fruit that contains a single stony seed. The cherry belongs to the family Rosaceae, genus Prunus, along with almonds, peaches, plums, apricots and bird cherry ....
  • Cranberry
    Cranberry

    Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines in the genus Vaccinium subgenus Oxycoccos, or in some treatments, in the distinct genus Oxycoccos....
  • Cranberry-Raspberry
    Raspberry

    The raspberry is the edible fruit of a multitude of plant species in the subgenus Rubus#Scientific classification of the genus Rubus; the name also applies to these plants themselves....
  • Fruit Fiesta
  • Grape
    Grape

    File:Table grapes on white.jpgA grape is the non-Climacteric #In_botany fruit that grows on the Perennial plant and deciduous woody vines of the genus Vitis....
  • Green Apple
  • Lemon
    Lemon

    The lemon is the common name for Citrus limon. The reproductive tissue surrounds the seed of the angiosperm lemon tree. The lemon is used for culinary and nonculinary purposes throughout the world....
  • Lime
    Lime (fruit)

    Lime is a term referring to a number of different fruits , both species and Hybrid , which are typically round, green to yellow in color, 3?6 cm in diameter, generally containing sour pulp, and frequently associated with the lemon....
  • Margarita
    Margarita

    The Margarita is the most common tequila-based cocktail, made with tequila mixed with triple sec and lime or lemon juice, often served with salt on the glass rim....
     (seasonal)
  • Melon Fusion


  • Mixed Fruit
  • Orange
    Orange (fruit)

    An orange?specifically, the sweet orange?is the citrus Citrus sinensis and its fruit. The orange is a Hybrid of ancient cultivated origin, possibly between pomelo and tangerine ....
  • Peach
    Peach

    The peach is known as a species of Prunus native to China that bears an edible juicy fruit also called a peach. It is a deciduous tree growing to 5?10 m tall, belonging to the subfamily Prunoideae of the family Rosaceae....
  • Piña Colada
    Piña Colada

    The pi?a colada is a sweet, rum-based cocktail made with light rum, coconut cream, and pineapple juice, usually served either blended or shaken with ice....
     (seasonal)
  • Pineapple
    Pineapple

    Pineapple is the common name for an edible tropical plant and also its fruit. It is native to the southern part of Brazil, and Paraguay. This herbaceous plant perennial plant grows to tall with 30 or more trough-shaped and pointed leaves long, surrounding a thick plant stem....
  • Raspberry
    Raspberry

    The raspberry is the edible fruit of a multitude of plant species in the subgenus Rubus#Scientific classification of the genus Rubus; the name also applies to these plants themselves....
  • Strawberry
    Strawberry

    Fragaria is the name of a genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, commonly known as strawberries for their edible fruits....
  • Strawberry-Banana
    Banana

    File:Banana and cross section.jpgBanana is the common name for a fruit and also the herbaceous plants of the genus Musa which produce this commonly eaten fruit....
  • Strawberry-Kiwi
    Kiwi

    A kiwi is any of the species of flightless birds endemic to New Zealand of the genus Apteryx . At around the size of a domestic chicken, kiwi are by far the smallest living ratites....
  • Strawberry Daiquiri (seasonal)
  • Tropical Berry (prepared only)
  • Tropical Fusion
  • Watermelon
    Watermelon

    Watermelon refers to both fruit and plant of a vine-like herb originally from southern Africa and one of the most common types of melon. This flowering plant produces a special type of fruit known by botany as a Epigynous berry, which has a thick Peel and fleshy center ; pepos are derived from an inferior ovary and are characteristic of...
  • Wild Cherry
    Wild Cherry

    The Wild Cherry, Sweet Cherry or Gean is a species of Prunus, native to Europe, northwest Africa, and western Asia, from the British Isles south to Morocco and Tunisia, north to the Trondheimsfjord region in Norway and east to southern Sweden, Poland, Ukraine, the Caucasus, and northern Iran, with a small disjunct population in the wes...
  • Wild Strawberry


Pudding

  • Banana Cream
  • Butterscotch
  • Cheesecake
  • Chips Ahoy!
    Chips Ahoy!

    Chips Ahoy! is a brand of chocolate chip cookies made by Nabisco. They are widely sold in the United States, Argentina , South Africa, Canada, Mexico, Spain, Portugal and Australia ...
  • Chocolate
    Chocolate

    Chocolate comprises a number of raw and processed foods that are produced from the seed of the tropical cacao tree.Chocolate has become one of the most popular flavors in the world....
  • Chocolate Fudge
  • Chocolate-Vanilla Swirl (prepared only)
  • Coconut Cream
  • Cookies 'n Creme (Oreo
    Oreo

    Oreo, promoted as Milk's Favorite Cookie, is a type of cookie sold by Kraft Foods, founded in East Hanover, New Jersey....
    )
  • Creamy Caramel (prepared only)
  • Devil's Food
  • Double Chocolate (prepared only)
  • Dulce De Leche
  • Egg Custard
  • Flan
  • French Vanilla
  • Lemon
  • Peanut Butter Cup
  • Pistachio
  • Pumpkin
    Pumpkin

    Pumpkin is a gourd-like Squash of the genus Cucurbita and the family Cucurbitaceae . It is a common name of or can refer to cultivars of any one of the following species: Cucurbita pepo, Cucurbita mixta, Cucurbita maxima, and Cucurbita moschata....
     Spice (seasonal)
  • Rice
    Rice

    Rice is a staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in tropical Latin America, and East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia, making it the second-most consumed cereal grain, after maize....
     Pudding
  • Strawberry creme (select markets)
  • S'mores
  • Tapioca (prepared only)
  • Vanilla
  • Vanilla-Caramel (prepared only)
  • White Chocolate


Discontinued flavors of Jell-O brand desserts

  • Apple
  • Black Raspberry
    Black raspberry

    Black raspberry is a common name for two closely related species of the genus Rubus:*Rubus leucodermis, native to western North America...
  • Blackberry
  • Bubble Gum
  • Celery
  • Chocolate
  • Coffee
  • Cola
  • Concord Grape
  • Cranberry-Strawberry
  • Fruit Mold Supreme
  • Italian Salad
  • Lemon-Lime
  • Mango
  • Melon-Berry
  • Mixed Vegetable
  • Orange-Banana
  • Orange-Coconut (pudding)
  • Orange-Pineapple
  • Passion Fruit
  • Pickle
  • Pineapple-Grapefruit
  • Plain
  • Raspberry Mango
  • Seasoned Tomato
  • Sparkling Berry
  • Sparkling Mandarin Orange
  • Sparkling White Grape
  • Strawberry Punch
  • Triple Chocolate
  • Tropical Fruit
  • Wild Raspberry


Note that list is only for specific dessert. For an example, Lemon-Lime flavor still exists as powders or make your owns.

Cultural references


Entertainment

Jack Benny
Jack Benny

Jack Benny was an American comedian, vaudeville, and actor for radio programming, television, and film.Widely recognized as one of the leading American entertainers of the 20th century, Benny was known for his comic timing and his ability to get laughs with either a pregnant pause or a single expression, such as his signature exasperated "...
's top-rated radio show did not break away for commercials. Instead, his announcer, Don Wilson, incorporated speeches about Jell-O into the program at appropriate places, to Jack's feigned comic annoyance. Perhaps the earliest musical reference to Jell-O was in the lyrics of "Cockeyed Optimist" from the musical South Pacific
South Pacific (musical)

South Pacific is a 1949 in music#Musical theater with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan....
 (Rodgers and Hammerstein, 1949) when Nellie sings "I could say life is just a bowl of Jell-O". Forty years later, it was mentioned in the film Ghostbusters 2. When Winston
Winston Zeddemore

Winston Zeddemore is a fictional character appearing in the Ghostbusters films and TV series. He was played by Ernie Hudson in both movies and was voiced by Arsenio Hall in the first season of The Real Ghostbusters....
 is reminded that a supernatural 'goo' resembles Jell-O, he remarks that he hates Jell-O. Peter Venkman
Peter Venkman

Peter Venkman, Ph.D. is a fictional character scientist and member of the Ghostbusters, appearing in the films Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II and in the Animation television series The Real Ghostbusters....
 responds, "There's always room for Jell-O". In the American TV version of the UK series The Office
The Office (US TV series)

The Office is an Emmy-Award winning American Situation comedy airing on NBC and developed by Greg Daniels. It is an American adaptation of the BBC series The Office and depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company....
 (2005) Jim Halpert
Jim Halpert

James "Jim" Halpert is a fictional character in the United States version of the TV series situation comedy The Office , played by John Krasinski....
 has encased Dwight Schrute
Dwight Schrute

Dwight Kurt Schrute is a fictional character on NBC's The Office portrayed by Rainn Wilson. His counterpart in the original The Office of The Office is Gareth Keenan....
's and Andy Bernard
Andy Bernard

Andrew "Andy" Baines Bernard is a fictional character from the United States television series The Office . He is played by Ed Helms....
's office supplies in Jell-O. In the original UK-based show
The Office (UK TV series)

The Office is a British Academy Television Awards, Golden Globe Award winning and Emmy-nominated United Kingdom television program comedy that first aired in the UK on BBC Two on 9 July 2001....
 (2001) Tim Canterbury
Tim Canterbury

Tim Canterbury is a main character in the BBC sitcom The Office , played by Martin Freeman. He is a 30-year-old sales representative for paper merchants Wernham Hogg and lives with his parents....
 did the same to Gareth Keenan
Gareth Keenan

Gareth Keenan is a Fictional character paper salesman on BBC's comedy The Office . He is portrayed in the series by Mackenzie Crook as a gaunt, self-important "team leader" proud of his lieutenant status in the Territorial Army who spends his days annoying his co-workers at Wernham Hogg with his steadfast enforcement of the rules and suck...
, though they referred to the dessert by the common UK term "jelly". Samantha Carter of Stargate SG-1
Stargate SG-1

Stargate SG-1 is an United States-Canadian science fiction television series, part of the Stargate. Its story begins one year after the events of the 1994 science fiction film Stargate ....
 has been seen to enjoy blue Jell-O on numerous occasions. Jell-O powder was a primary ingredient in the green slime for the 1980s TV show, You Can't Do That on Television
You Can't Do That on Television

You Can't Do That on Television was a Canada television program. It first aired as a local program in early 1979 in television before turning national later that same year and, subsequently, international in 1981 in television....
. Eric Reed Boucher, the lead singer of the punk rock
Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock....
 band Dead Kennedys
Dead Kennedys

The Dead Kennedys were an United States punk band from the List of musicians in the first wave of punk music of American punk rock, formed in San Francisco, California in 1978....
, used Jello Biafra
Jello Biafra

Eric Reed Boucher , more widely known by the stage name Jell-O Biafra, is an United Statesn musician, spoken word artist and leading figure of the Green Party ....
 as his stage name. Jell-O was mentioned in a Star Trek Voyager Episode 'The 37's' where Neelix had prepared some human food to the 37's. Neelix had made Jell-O for the character Fred Noonan; portrayed by David Graf
David Graf

Paul David Graf was an United States actor, best known for his role as Sgt. Eugene Tackleberry in the Police Academy series of films. He married Kathryn Graf in 1985, they had two sons, Daniel and Sean....
.

Comedy
Comedy rock

Comedy rock is a term used to describe rock music that is mixed with satire or other forms of comedy. This tradition can be traced back to the earliest days of rock and roll itself, the most notable early examples being Stan Freberg who lampooned artists such as Elvis Presley and The Platters, and Sheb Wooley whose Purple People Eater hit #1...
/heavy metal
Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified Distortion , extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall...
 and punk rock
Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock....
 group Green Jelly was originally named Green Jellö. The band changed its name due to legal pressure from Kraft Foods
Kraft Foods

Kraft Foods, Inc. is the second-largest food and beverage company headquartered in the United States and the third largest in the world .The Philip Morris Company , acquired Kraft for $12.9 billion in 1988, eventually merging it with another food subsidiary, General Foods, which it had acquired in 1985....
, who claimed that it was an infringement of their trademark.

Commercials

Comedian Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby

William Henry "Bill" Cosby Jr. is an American comedian, actor, author, television producer and activist. A veteran stand-up performer, he got his start at various clubs, then landed a vanguard role in the 1960s action show I Spy....
 is usually associated with Jell-O and, more famously, Jell-O pudding as he has appeared in many commercials promoting both. Shows like MAD TV
Mad TV

Mad TV has three meanings:*MADtv, an American sketch comedy television series based on the humor magazine, Mad*Mad TV , a 1991 television station management simulation game...
, The Simpsons
The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an Television in the United States animated cartoon Situation comedy created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
  and SNL parody Cosby, using Jello references like "pudding pop". In the 1960s, the cast of the sitcom Hogan's Heroes
Hogan's Heroes

Hogan's Heroes is an American television situation comedy that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network....
 did a commercial with Carol Channing
Carol Channing

Carol Elaine Channing is an United States singer and actor. The recipient of three Tony Awards , a Golden Globe and an Academy Award nomination, Channing is best remembered for her role Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes , and as Dolly Gallagher Levi in Hello, Dolly! ....
 featuring the gang having Jell-O for dessert.

Other

In 1992 Ivette Bassa won the second ever Ig Nobel prize in chemistry for inventing blue jello.

See also

  • Mormon Corridor
    Mormon Corridor

    The Mormon Corridor is a term for the areas of the Western North America that were settled between 1850 and approximately 1890 by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who are commonly known as Mormons....
     - also known as the "Jell-O Belt"
  • Jello salad
    Jello salad

    Jello salad or congealed salad is the common name for salad made with flavored gelatin, fruit and sometimes grated carrots or, more rarely, other vegetables....


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