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Homemade Gummies: A Great Way to Get Supplements in Your Kids

Name: Healthy Homemade Gummies
Cook time: 20 min
Ingredients: 3/4 cup 100% juice (we like to use organic tart cherry juice or NingXia Red®); 2 tbsp honey (could omit if juice is sweet as is); 3 tbsp Great Lakes gelatin; 2 drops Lime Vitality essential oil (oil)

by Michelle Larson
| June 23, 2022

Do you have a hard time getting supplements into your kids? One of the methods we love and feature in our At-Home Health Manual is to make gummies. We know that kids like gummies of all types, and that’s why gummy vitamins line the shelves of pharmacies now. But when our kids are on custom nutrition programs, we need to get more creative. Enter homemade gummy vitamins!

Try my version below — it’s really just a tweak of the healthy homemade Jello recipe. And make sure you order some cute silicone gummy molds (we get these on Amazon).

It’s easy to stir in powder and liquid supplements into the juice mixture before it sets up. If you need help figuring out proportions for your specific situations, ask us at your next visit.

A note about ingredients: Gelatin, if sourced smartly (grass-fed), can be a great source of protein and antioxidants. It supports the health of the digestive system, bones, skin, and joints. And when we make gummies ourselves, we control the sugar, and ditch the dyes, corn syrup, and other fake stuff.

Healthy Homemade Gummies

Michelle Larson

Great alone or add powder/liquid supplements to make your own gummy vitamins.

Print Recipe

Cook Time 20 mins

Ingredients

3/4 cup 100% juice we like to use organic tart cherry juice or NingXia Red®
2 tbsp honey could omit if juice is sweet as is
3 tbsp Great Lakes gelatin
2 drops Lime Vitality essential oil oil

Instructions

In a saucepan, heat the juices over medium heat until hot but not boiling.
Lower the heat to the lowest setting and whisk in the honey until fully dissolved.
Now, whisk in gelatin 1 tbsp at a time, adding another only after it has dissolved. Continue to stir until the gelatin is fully dissolved, about 10 mins.
Once you have no lumps, just liquid, add supplements if desired.
Then, remove from heat and carefully transfer the liquid into your gummy molds. It's helpful to place the molds on a sheet pan or similar.
Chill in the fridge until the gummies are completely firm.
Pop them out and store in a glass container in your refrigerator for up to 3 weeks.

Notes

Looking for ingredients?

Great Lakes Gelatin can be ordered on Thrive Market or Azure Standard (use code MyInc1)
Lime Vitality essential oil
NingXia Red® antioxidant drink

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Michelle Larson

As an intuitive practitioner, Michelle blends all her modalities and trainings in her services to get at the root cause of what’s blocking you or your pet’s health — whether that be the food we eat, the air we breathe, and/or a spiritual connection that needs to be mended. We get to the bottom of that and more inside the work here at MHB. She finds the best route for you to achieve optimal health at any stage in life.