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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Bread and Butter Pudding
Macademia Nut Pudding
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Healthy Chocolate Pudding Recipe
Homemade Vanilla Pudding
Russian Custard
Coconut Milk Pudding
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
Hi Adriel, welcome! So happy that you hopped over from Kelly the Kitchen Kop. I just LOVE her blog. Thanks for taking a moment to introduce yourself!
Oh, wow! And I just had leftover jello from the weekend today. I'm going to have to give this version a try! I've never even thought about doing it this way, so you're making me think outside the box. That's a good thing! Thanks for the new thought in food today. =) BTW, I'm visiting from Real Food Wednesdays and am a new follower. =)
Hi Ambre, yes gelatin does have trace amounts as does homemade broth and even fermented foods like saurkraut! It is not a problem for the vast majority of people. It is certainly nowhere near the large quantity in processed foods or protein powders for example.
Sarh, could you clear this up for me please? I've been wanting to make a jello like this for my family for awhile, but I keep reading that all gelatin contains MSG. Is that accurate? Thanks!
Hi Cindy, yes I put the apples in whole, but don't worry there were no seeds in the juice. They are removed by the juicer. Apple seeds do not contain any arsenic but do have some compounds that if you ate (chewed is the worst) enough of them would cause headache, dizziness etc from cyanide like compounds.
Hi Cassie, click on the gelatin link in the written part of the recipe and it will show you the Jensen's gelatin brand info.
can you give me some more info on the gelatin? I am a serious newbie so I need some hand holding, so to speak. =) I love your site and your videos! They have really encouraged me! thank you!!
Sarah, did you put those apples in WHOLE? I have been told (and read) that there is arsenic (or some other poisonous substance) in the seeds. Please tell me if I'm wrong.
These would be great for the lunchbox. The jello gets quite firm. There is no liquidy consistency to it at all.
How firm does this end up getting? I remember my mother making knox blocks with fruit juice when I was growing up and I'm thinking they'd be a great lunchbox treat.