Pomegranate Gelatin Gummies
These pomegranate gelatin gummies are a medicinal food for the gut. With only two ingredients, these are simple to make on the weekends to have as a daily snack during your week.
Gelatin is one of the components of bone broth — it’s the part that create the gel - like consistency. The healing magic of gelatin is in the easy to digest proteins that feed the lining of the gut. It’s simple food for the gut cells to heal —- particularly for creating a strong lining and boundary. A very common gut condition is leaky gut, where that boundary is open — like little cuts in the lining of the gut. Gelatin supports the repair of that lining.
Pomegranate juice is quite simply delicious and a beautiful rich red color. Nutritionally it is packed with a variety of antioxidants — vitamin C, flavonoids, polyphenols - that not only help cool any intestinal inflammation but also support repair of the gut lining — along with the gelatin.
The texture of these dummies is essentially jello —- but with high quality grass fed gelatin. I haven’t yet tried this experiment, but I’ve read you can leave the cut squares out overnight on a metal cooling rack. Some of the water evaporates making these more like gummy candies than jello squares.
Ingredients:
2 cups organic pomegranate juice
6 tablespoons grass fed gelatin
If in Colorado, you can find both of these at Natural Grocers
Instructions:
Pour one cup of pomegranate juice into a glass pyrex or any glass or metal container. Sprinkle over 6 tablespoons of gelatin to bloom the gelatin. Allow to sit for 5 minutes. This can turn into a big gelatin blob, but that’s ok. On the stovetop, pour the second cup of pomegranate juice into a small sauce pan and heat on low - medium until the juice is warm. Once the juice is warm, add the glob of gelatin / pomegranate mixture and begin to stir with a whisk until the gelatin melts into the liquid. You don’t want to simmer or boil the gelatin - so watch the temp closely. Pour into a glass tupperware -- mine is roughly 4x6 inches. You could also use a baking loaf pan -- any glass or metal container will do. Place in the fridge for at least an 2 hours to set up. I cut mine into 12 squares and eat 2 / day during my week which gives me around 10g of protein as an after lunch dessert.
Enjoy!
Dr. Jane Litsey