Synopsis It is important to evaluate your resources when deciding what is best for you. Time, money, and energy are important considerations. So is the quality control, and, often, home canning, carefully done, produces a superior product. This is not always true, but many people prefer the taste of home-canned over mass-produced products. Recipes for foods your family enjoys, but which cannot be purchased, can be preserved at home. You can control what goes into the food. For example, you decide the amount of sugar, salt and other additives desired. If one of your family members has sugar diabetes, canning fruit with less sugar or none at all may be important to you.