Selected Recommended Fact Sheets

• Approximate pH of food and Food Products -

  • http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~comm/lacf-phs.html/ - USFDA, April 2007
• Complete Guide to Home Canning

  • http://www.fcs.uga.edu/pubs/current/FDNS-E-39.html
• Penn State's Resources for Safe Food Preparation:
  Let's Preserve Series
• University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources - Home Gardening, Preservation & Storage

Cost of Preserving and Storing Food

• http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/foodnut/08704.html -Fact Sheet from Colorado State University, June 2007
  

• National Center for Home Food Preservation Web site

Site includes science-based information on home food preservation, publications and links to other Extension sites

Selected Cooperative Extension Sites

• Food Preservation Links - On the Web: Site compiled by Kansas State University. - Includes commercial, government, and university web sites and printable publications.
  
• Colorado State University Cooperative Extension, Food & Nutrition Online Fact Sheets - Site updated July 2007. Includes publication in HTML or PDF format to print. Look under both Preparation and Preservation for relevant fact sheets.
  
• University of Georgia College of Family and Consumer Science - Click on Publications and Resources Site Contains publications and resources to print from the web or to order.
  
• Pennsylvania State University, Food Preservation Data Base - Site links to approved recipes, food preservation questions and answers, elevation finder (altitude adjustments for canning safely), kitchen unit conversions, and food safety
  
• The Food Venture Center, the Northeast Center for Food Entrepreneurship, a collaboration between Cornell University and the University of Vermont - Site supports home-based food business.
  

Selected Commercial Sites

• Alltrista Corporation - Include Ball, Kerr, and Bernardin brands - Site includes canning basics, recipes, online order form, products and newsletter
• Companies that sell ClearJel (chemically modified cornstarch used to thicken pie fillings. Does not break down when canned or baked producing good sauce consistency.)

  • http://www.kitchenkrafts.com - click on canning, then click on ingredients
  • http://www.sweetc.com - click on link for ingredients
• Kraft General Foods

  • http://www.kraftfood.com
  • http://www.surejell.com
  • Site includes recipes and nutritional information
• National Presto Industries, Inc. - Site includes product information, catalog, recipes, parts & services for pressure canners.