If you’ve been looking for an easy way to add a boost of nutrition while supporting your gut, these healing gummies have quickly become one of my favorites. They take just a few minutes to make, taste amazing, and are packed with benefits for your skin, hair, nails, joints, and digestion.

I love recipes like this because they feel like a treat but actually give your body something it can use. Plus, you only need three ingredients: freshly squeezed juice, a good quality gelatin, and a little raw honey or your favorite sweetener.

Gelatin vs Collagen

Collagen peptides and gelatin come from the same source, but they act differently.

Collagen peptides dissolve in hot or cold liquid and completely disappear. They don’t thicken anything, which makes them perfect for coffee, smoothies, or shakes. Gelatin is what gives you that firm, jiggly texture. It only dissolves in hot liquid, and when it cools, it sets.

So for this recipe, you want gelatin, not collagen peptides. That way your gummies will actually hold their shape.

Why Gelatin is So Good for You

Gelatin is more than just the thing that makes jello jiggle. It’s full of amino acids like glycine, proline, and glutamine that can help repair the gut lining, support digestion, and calm inflammation.

It also gives your body the building blocks it needs to produce collagen naturally, which can strengthen hair, skin, and nails. Gelatin is also great for your joints and bones, and even helps with better sleep because glycine is calming for the nervous system.

How to Make These Gummies

What You’ll Need

• Silicone molds – these are the fun ones I used (linked here) and I also used simple square molds (linked here)
• Small saucepan
• Mixing bowl and whisk

Ingredients

• 2 cups freshly squeezed juice of choice (just not pineapple juice, more on this below)
• 30 grams grass-fed gelatin (linked my favorite)
• 1 tablespoon raw honey or your sweetener of choice

Instructions

1. Pour 1 cup of juice into a bowl and sprinkle the gelatin evenly on top. Let it sit for 3 to 5 minutes so it can “bloom” and absorb the liquid. Don’t mix.
2. Heat the other cup of juice in a small pot on the stove over medium heat with your honey. You just want it warm, not boiling.
3. Pour the bloomed gelatin into the warm juice on the stove and mix until smooth and all the clumps are gone.
4. Remove from the heat and pour the mixture into a glass bowl. Use your liquid dropper (it should be included if you ordered the smaller molds) to fill your silicone molds. You can also just pour it into a glass dish if you’d rather cut them into squares later.
5. Place it in the fridge. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours or overnight. If you notice they’re not coming out of the molds easily, give them a little more time to set.
6. Pop them out of their molds or cut into squares and enjoy. Store in the fridge for up to a week.

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Why Fresh Juice Matters

Juice from concentrate is basically boiled sugar water with most of the nutrients cooked out. Freshly squeezed juice still has its antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals, and it tastes so much better. You can use whatever juice you love, but skip fresh pineapple juice because it has an enzyme called bromelain that breaks down protein. Gelatin is a protein, so bromelain keeps it from setting and you’ll just end up with liquid. If you really want pineapple flavor, canned pineapple juice works because the enzyme gets destroyed during the canning process.

Tips for the Best Gummies

• Silicone molds make it super easy to pop the gummies out, but a glass dish works too if you want to just slice them into squares.
• If your juice is really tart or acidic, add a little more honey to balance it.
• Don’t boil your juice. Gentle heat is enough to dissolve the gelatin and keeps more of the nutrients intact.
• Play with flavors! Tart cherry is great for sleep, grape is loaded with antioxidants, and pomegranate is a classic for heart and brain health.

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Are you going to try these gummies?

These gummies are such a simple way to turn three basic ingredients into something that feels like a treat but actually supports your body. I love keeping them in the fridge for a quick snack or even a bedtime bite since the glycine can help you wind down.

Try them with your favorite juice and let me know what you think. Once you make them, you might find yourself always keeping a batch in the fridge.