How To Make Homemade Fruit Juice Gelatin

Homemade fruit juice gelatin is easy to make and nutritious.

Here are my favorite brands:

Great Lakes Unflavored Gelatin, Kosher, 16-Ounce Can

These can also be stirred into warm drinks as a quality source of protein. Though I usually use collagen for that.

More Benefits of Gelatin:

Gelatin strengthens joints, skin, nails, hair and digestion and promotes restful sleep. It’s also a calming and anti-stress food that helps balance out the excitatory properties of muscle meat.

Eating only the amino acids found muscle meat produces stress hormones in our bodies.
The amino acids in gelatin (found in the the gelatinous tissue of the animal) are calming.
Amazing how they compliment each other, isn't it?

This article by Ray Peat, explains it more in depth. In his words:

When we eat animal proteins in the traditional ways (for example, eating fish head soup, as well as the muscles, or “head-cheese” as well as pork chops, and chicken-foot soup as well as drumsticks), we assimilate a large amount of glycine and gelatin. This whole-animal balance of amino acids supports all sorts of biological process, including a balanced growth of children's tissues and organs.
When only the muscle meats are eaten, the amino acid balance entering our blood stream is the same as that produced by extreme stress, when cortisol excess causes our muscles to be broken down to provide energy and material for repair...
A generous supply of glycine/gelatin, against a balanced background of amino acids, has a great variety of antistress actions. Glycine is recognized as an “inhibitory” neurotransmitter, and promotes natural sleep. Used as a supplement, it has helped to promote recovery from strokes and seizures, and to improve learning and memory. But in every type of cell, it apparently has the same kind of quieting, protective antistress action.

"Jello" Flavor Ideas

Cherry Lemonade (a blend of lemonade and 100% tart cherry juice)
Apple Cherry (a blend of organic apple juice and cherry juice)
Apple Blueberry
Green Tea Lemonade (just substitute some of the juice with green tea and add extra honey)
Apple pie (just use apple juice and add in some spices like cinnamon and nutmeg, then top with whipped cream!)

Fruit Juice Gelatin

Omit the spices and use your own blend of juices to create any flavor.

INGREDIENTS

3 cups juice
2 T gelatin
3T sugar, honey or maple syrup (optional)

DIRECTIONS

Pour one cup of the juice into a small bowl and sprinkle in the gelatin. Watch it bloom (slowly absorb the liquid).
While it’s blooming, heat two cups of the juice over medium heat until it is very hot (but preferably not boiling). Take it off the heat

Add your bloomed gelatin mixture to the warm juice and stir til incorporated. Add sweetener.

Pour into a small pyrex, a bowl, ramekins – any container you want. Refrigerate about 4 hours, until solid.

Note 1: The amount of gelatin in this recipe makes a medium-firm gelatin. For a softer set, reduce gelatin to 1.5 T. For firmer, up to 3 T. The firmer the jello, the less sweet it tastes.

Note 2: Before you refrigerate, you can put in some berries or chopped fruit (fresh or frozen).

Note 3: Even if you find most juices to be too sweet, fruit juice gelatin requires full-strength juice (and even added sweetener) because it loses some of its sweetness as it gelatinizes.

Shared on the Nourishing Gourmet’s Pennywise Platter 10/3.