This looks horrifying. Please don’t eat this 😂

I make jam several times a year and I never had this kind of deposit. I would throw the jam, I’m too young to die from food poisoning (like botulism, if there’s not enough sugar).

The strawberry jam I used to have had mold that looked like that after a week in the fridge. Toss it if you value your stomach

Doesn’t look like it was cooked for very long or with much sugar. If theres too much water and not enough sugar you don’t get the preservation effect.

This doesn’t look right.

Normally, the fruit should separate out on top.

How much sugar did you add? The preservative here is sugar, and the mechanism of preservation is reducing the water activity so much that nothing else can grow. The resulting sugar jelly should be much denser than the fruit.

If you fruit sinks, the specific gravity of the jam might not be high enough.