Ball Jar Heritage Collection Pint Jars

*************EDIT: I was informed by another reviewer that raw garlic that isn't mature enough will react with ACV and turn blue! The garlic when first removed from the jar was the exact shade of blue as the jars, hence my alarm. The photo I have attached is after it had been sitting out a day so it is less brilliant. Don't let my previous review dissuade you from purchasing these jars. I apologize for my ignorance! ******************************************************** I bought these jars expecting Ball jar quality and they arrived appearing to meet these standards, until I used one for something other than a vase. I thoroughly washed the jar before using. I placed four heads of peeled organic garlic and filled the jar with unpasteurized apple cider vinegar. I set the jar in a sunny window, as suggested by Rosemary Gladstar in her book Medicinal Herbs : A Beginners Guide. After a few days I noted some of the garlic looked blotchy and blue. I thought it was only because the jar was blue and this was part of the pickling process, as this was my first time I wasn't sure. After five days had passed I decided to take a peek and sure enough I pulled out a few cloves and they were completely blue. Cutting one open revealed they were saturated with blue dye. The entire batch was completely ruined as more than half of the cloves were as blue as Easter eggs. This is not only disappointing but absolutely disgusting. These jars are made for canning and preserving it makes no sense to me why something as simple as vinegar would pull dye out of glass. And if there are properties of vinegar that have a tendency to do this because its so acidic then shame on a company that makes canning/pickling jars for not knowing this. This information needs to be made known to those who are purchasing this product for something other than decorative purposes and frankly Im afraid to put any kind of food in them at this point, rendering my purchase a complete waste of money. And I'm pretty disturbed a company is selling glass that has enough dye in it for it to seep out into food. I think I will stick with the clear jars from here on out but I wanted to bring this to everyone's attention if they are buying these jars for something else besides decoration purposes.