Jell-O

Also known as Jello

Jell-O (stylized in all caps) is an American brand offering a variety of powdered gelatin dessert (fruit-flavored gels/jellies), pudding, and no-bake cream pie mixes. The original gelatin dessert (genericized as jello) is the signature of the brand. "Jell-O" is a registered trademark of Kraft Heinz, and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Key facts

Brand.name: Jell-O
Brand.logo: Jell-O new logo (2023).svg
Brand.logo_size: 150
Brand.image: 2019-10-10 22 15 43 Gelatin from a single opened cup of Jell-O strawberry gelatin snack being lifted by a spoon in the Franklin Farm section of Oak Hill, Fairfax County, Virginia.jpg
Brand.image_size: 200
Brand.producttype: Gelatin dessert, pudding
Brand.currentowner: Kraft Heinz
Brand.producedby: Kraft Foods
Brand.country: United States
Food.name: Jell-O
Food.place_of_origin: United States
Food.creator: Pearle Bixby Wait
Food.type: Gelatin desserts, puddings
Food.main_ingredient: Powdered gelatin, sugar or artificial sweetener, artificial flavors, food coloring
Food.variations: Many flavors and various snacks
Food.serving_size: 21g – 23gr
Food.calories: 80
Food.calories_ref:  [regular], [sugar-free]

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Description
History
Early history
Going mainstream
Baby boom
Sales decline and turnaround
Jell-O shots
Manufacturing and tourism
Advertising
In culture
Mormonism
Current flavors
Gelatin
Pudding
See also
References
External links

The dessert was especially popular in the first half of the 20th century. The original gelatin dessert began in Le Roy, New York, in 1897, when Pearle Bixby Wait registered a trademark for the name Jell-O. He and his wife May had made the product by adding strawberry, raspberry, orange, and lemon flavoring to sugar and granulated gelatin (which had been patented in 1845). The powder is mixed with boiling water and then cooled to produce a gel.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jell-O” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.