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
Egg Custard
Bread and Butter Pudding
Macademia Nut Pudding
Thai Custard Pudding
Healthy Chocolate Pudding Recipe
Homemade Vanilla Pudding
Russian Custard
Coconut Milk Pudding
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
My biggest issue with this is that it’s not pudding. Pudding is the creamy stuff that you put in pies and eat as chocolate, vanilla, butterscotch, etc. This is gelatin. It’s a Jello Gelatin recipe. It’s not pudding and shouldn’t be allowed to masquerade around as pudding
I love your recipe. Jello is a great snack if you want to lose weight. What’s better than a healthy and homemade jello?
Your strawberry kiwi probably tastes great, but it looks awful and unappetizing! Looks like the raw chicken I cut up for my cat!
Yeah, not shiny and fake like the stuff at the store. But, it tastes delish 🙂 It’s made from raw juice too, so the juice is cloudy and not clear which makes a big difference as to how the jello turns out. It looks nicer in person.
I was wondering why my canker sores haven’t made its appearance for several months now then i saw your post. No wonder, i’ve been weaning myself from table sugar for quite sometimes now 🙂
Sarah, a homemade gelatin dessert without carcinogenic artificial colors may not be as conventionally “pretty” as Jello, but who cares — sounds delicious!
What is an atrocity is that hospitals (and other institutions?) still have jello as a staple food on their menus!!!!
Love your site Sarah, look forward to seeing it in my inbox each day!!
Thank you!
Yes, totally agree. What in the world is jello doing on hospital menus and who are the brain dead nutritionists putting this type of meal plan together for convalescing patients?
Sarah,
A great basic recipe!! My experience is that certain fresh fruits’ enzymes will break down the gelatin so that it will never set up. I made a gelatin dessert once with fresh kiwi that never set up. I think pineapple is like this, too. Maybe others. Do you think it would be a good idea to update the article with this information?
Love all the great information that you provide!
Another good gelatin recipe we make
3 TBSP gelatin dissolved in 1/4c. raw milk or fresh juice. Heat gently to dissolve gelatin and transfer to a blender and blend on low speed 1 min. Add honey to taste or stevia.
Add 1 tsp vanilla (opt) 2 egg yolks (opt also) 1 1/2c raw milk or yougurt.
Then add frozen fruit of your choice. we like 1 (unfrozen) banana and the rest peaches and a few raspberrys. Add fruit until the blender is filled to the 6c mark. Refridgerate until ready to eat
The jello pudding in the picture above is strawberry kiwi, in case you’re wondering 🙂
I honestly thought it was chunked chicken cutlets!
Phew….. 🙂