Medicinal Fresh Orange Juice Gummies

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  • Prep time:10 minutes
  • Cooking time:5 minutes plus freezing time
  • Recipe serves:30 mini gummies

These super easy and utterly delicious medicinal gummies are a great snack to have on hand especially in the Winter, packed with vitamin C using beautiful sharp in-season NZ oranges (from a neighbours laden tree perhaps). Echinacea tincture extract provides an immune boost along with antibiotic and anti-fungal activity, great for sore throats and infections! Grass-fed pure beef gelatin also provides a good source of protein and marvellous medicinal manuka honey is a wonderful healing sweetener, which adds extra benefits to these divine home-made lollies :)  Keep it natural...keep it real...food as medicine xox

Ingredients

  • 250 mls fruit juice (freshly squeezed N.Z oranges) (or any fruit or veg juice you like)
  • 3-4 Tablespoons raw manuka honey (to taste)
  • 4 Tablespoons of grass-fed beef powdered gelatin
  • Echinacea tincture or probiotic powder (optional for added benefits) available from a health shop or herbal dispencary

Method

  1. Place fresh juice in a saucepan, sprinkle over gelatine. Let stand for 5 minutes.
  2. Gently heat for 5 minutes until smooth and dissolved, don't boil the mixture!!
  3. Now add your manuka honey and any other goodies you choose (such as the echinacea tincture or perhaps probiotic powder, superfood berry powders etc) and stir to combine.
  4. Pour into ice-cube trays or chocolate moulds immediately place in the freezer to set (about 10-15 minutes)
  5. Once gummies are set, remove from moulds and store in an airtight jar either in the fridge or they are ok at room temperature for a few weeks (if they last that long)  :)