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
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Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
Marissa, you could use a very bland gelled stock such as one made only with pigs feet and add it to fruit juice, just realize it might have an odd flavor due to the origin of the gelatin. That, and boil the stock down A LOT because it will need to be concentrated to absorb the extra moisture from the fruit juice.
I know this may be a weird question, but can you use gelatin from your homemade beef stock to make this?
Hi sarah,
question about the lalane juicer….I hate mine!!! i cannot get away without cutting my apple, sometimes I wish I peeled them first! my pulp ia soaked! so you replace your blades often?!
so funny, bc my husband has been saying, “we need a champion” nowi wonder, if its worse, why would I spend hundreds!!
thanks!
love your site and really learn from your videos. im wondering what to do with the leftovers. my kids wont eat it after they tried it. it needs a sweetener. im going to try again and add some stevia to it and use watermelon as mentioned. i just spent $6 on apples and i can’t waist this jello. Any suggestions?
YAY!!! this is EXACTLY what i’ve been looking for… i don’t like to cook fruit either… THANK YOU!!
Hi Sarah – thanks so much for the recipe and video! My Great Lakes kosher gelatin came in the mail today and I made the apple jello. It jelled perfectly in about an hour, and it was a hit with the family! I think I’ll try my hand at the raw cheesecake recipe in Nourishing Traditions, as it also calls for gelatin. I’m also leaning toward adding it to a cup of chicken stock daily, for joint health purposes. With rheumatoid arthritis, it can only help, right? And I’m sure my nails will like it, too!
Sarah,
I just made this today and it never congealed. it was still running even after i ended up using 3 TBL. (I added more gelatin the next day after I saw that it didn't work overnight). Any thoughts? I followed your recipe exactly except that I used Knox gelatin. I noticed that on the gelatin box it said to use hot juice. I wonder if that makes a difference because my fruit juice was cold as it had been sitting in the fridge before it was juiced up. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Something else I do on occasion is whip the jello before it is really hard…… with the mixer making it light and fluffy. This can be done simply by itself but if you want a decadent treat add raw whipped cream to it after you have fluffed it fairly well…..and then finish fluffing it when adding the whipped cream.
Just some more ideas.
sounds delicious