Homemade jello made with unprocessed ingredients is an easy, fast and yummy treat that is the perfect pudding dish to take to cookouts and potlucks. It pleases junk food and healthfood fans alike.
People sometimes get a puzzled look on their faces when I suggest jello as a healthy treat for kids.
This is understandable, because boxed jello pudding from the store, which is almost without exception the type of jello anybody sees anymore, is one of the nastiest, most artificial concoctions on supermarket shelves. I literally cringe anytime I see an adult serving this frankenfood to a child.
The artificial coloring and flavorings in processed jello pudding combined with the genetically modified white sugar are guaranteed to make your child hyper and irritable.
There is literally not a single thing in supermarket jello pudding that is Real, that is, from Mother Nature. It is a laboratory experiment to the highest degree, and those who eat it, sadly, the willing guinea pigs.
Here are the ingredients of strawberry jello as a simple example:
SUGAR (GMO), GELATIN (GMO), ADIPIC ACID (LIVER TOXIN), CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE (CARCINOGEN) AND SODIUM CITRATE (GMO), FUMARIC ACID (KIDNEY TOXIN), RED 40 (CARCINOGEN).
It really is hard to believe that this stuff is even legal to sell for human consumption.
Let me show you the recipe for making jello at home. Only TWO ingredients are necessary!
If you enjoy this way to make healthy jello, try this recipe for elderberry jello too!
Homemade Jello Pudding Recipe
Recipe for homemade jello that you can make in minutes that is actually healthy too bypassing the artificially flavored and colored GMO concoctions at the supermarket.
Ingredients
- 6 cups freshly squeezed juice
- 3 Tbl unflavored gelatin
Instructions
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Juice enough fresh organic fruit to make 6 cups fresh juice. Alternatively, purchase unpasteurized fruit juice of choice from the healthfood store. Do not use pasteurized juice if you can possibly help it even if it is organic as this is just sugar water with little nutritional value. Most of the vitamins and all of the enzymes have been destroyed in pasteurized fruit juice from the factory processing.
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Pour fresh juice into a glass bowl.
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Mix gelatin with a few ounces of boiling water stirring vigorously. Pour water with dissolved gelatin into the bowl of fresh fruit juice stirring until thoroughly mixed.
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Refrigerate overnight. Serve chilled by itself or with homemade ice cream.
Recipe Notes
Do not use collagen peptides instead of gelatin as it will fail to gel the juice.
To make a probiotic jello, try making this recipe with homemade orangina, root beer, or ginger ale!
For a medicinal type of jello treat to serve when your child is ill or has a cough, make this recipe using elderberry syrup.
How to Make Healthy Jello (video)
Believe it or not, jello pudding can be a very healthy dessert when you make it yourself! Â In this video tutorial below, I show you how to make homemade jello pudding easily and within minutes in your kitchen with the fresh fruit juice of your choice!
I personally feel that serving your children fruit juice as jello is better than a straight glass of juice, because they get a bit of protein with it in the form of grassfed gelatin. In addition, my children will typically consume about half as much fruit juice when it is made into jello pudding as opposed to drinking it out of a glass.
Why is this important? Because fruit juice has a lot of fructose in it, and even though fresh fruit juice is healthy, you don’t want to overconsume it for that reason. Too much sugar, no matter what the source, is problematic to health. Not to mention the canker sores you will likely get from consuming too much fructose no matter if it is natural from fruit or the (GMO) high fructose corn syrup variety found in soda and other processed foods.
More Healthy Pudding Recipes
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Healthy Chocolate Pudding Recipe
Homemade Vanilla Pudding
Russian Custard
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Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
Bernard Jensen's high quality gelatin comes from primarily grassfed cows and is from bone with some hide. Here is a great FAQ:
http://www.radiantlifecatalog.com/product/Bernard-Jensen-Gelatin/superfoods-supplements
I was told that this "gelatin" was made from the hooves of cows in a manner that was considered "unhumane"? I have always avoided gelatin because of this…. Is this true? I don't like to go out on a limb but since it sounded very cruel, I found myself boycotting it. I did find an alternate with "AGAR" bars but haven't tried to make jello. I might try!
Thanks!
I'm so glad I found this. I followed a link from Facebook and looked around. I really need to get to the store.
One thing, we don't do organic very often because of a tight budget. Would you be able to do a post (or direct me to one) with tips for people who aren't using organic? Cleaning, preparation, etc.
Thanks!
I refuse to buy jello for my kids. Your recipe sounds so easy. Thank you so much for sharing this at Vegetarian Foodie Fridays!
Yes that would work – make sure the seeds and woody pulp are removed first if you use apples for example.
Could you use fruit ground up in a Blendtec or Vitamix? I don't have a juicer. Thanks.
This is a fantastic video! I've tried making jello a couple of time using fruit juice and the same gelatin you use. It never worked. I gave up. I couldn't find a recipe and was trying to figure out how much gelatin to use with the fruit juice. It's so frustrating that Jello has such a "hold" on the jello in this country that I couldn't find a recipe for regular jello – it was all about using JELLO recipes! JELLO brand is making zillions of dollars off their sugar laden, artificial coloring crap jello.
I'm so thankful that I found your video. I'm going to make this jello for my son's B-day since we're on GAPS diet and don't do well w/ almonds.
Tina
Watermelon juice jello sound fantastic – and they are still in season right now! Great idea!
Thank you for sharing Sarah, this is easy to make and so much healthier. We don't purchase jello from the store because most we find are unkosher. I'll look to see about finding kosher gelatin,i knew they were out there, but life gets busy and ….. my 14 year old daughter will love making this. I'll tweet this for my Torah observant followers.
blessings
Blessings and shalom
My kids are always asking for jello-
Will have to try this, maybe with some fresh watermelon juice.