Vegan gummy bears
I am making a vegan and clean gummy bear with pectin. My recipe has lime and strawberry concentrate (pH around 3.5) and a syrup. I use pectin to replace gelati…
- Ufuk Ayyıldız reply
you can not achieve the same texture with pectin which you achieved with gelatine.
- Food R&D Emeritus reply
[quote "Lis, post:1, topic:11499, full:true"] But it does not give me the elasticity, chewiness and springiness that gelatin gives. [/quote] More than two decades ago I formulated…
- Lis reply
Hi Roy, Thanks for your advice. I thought I could potentially use pectin in combination with trisodium citrate. Or in combination with citric acid. Do you think that could work? O…
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No buffer like trisodium or tripotassium citrate, your jelly mixes would not set aa the pH will be lower than 3.5. So pure lime juice is useless .. Pectin in my experience is not…
- Lis reply
No I will be adding lime juice on top of my glucose syrup and fruit concentrates. So I think I can target 3.5 3.8 No one else uses carrageenan and I am wondering why. Most of them…
- Ufuk Ayyıldız reply
@Lis look at these ; pH is ok but you need buffers as @Roy said. focus on pectin gel formation mechanism Citations for images: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pi…
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Historically, jello type mixes were made with animal gelatin..I can't remember any similar mixes using pectin. ever since I formulated vegetarian jelly mixes for my past employer…
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The easiest way to prepare gummies like jelly bears is to use thin boiling starch A typical recipe would be like this sugar 50 parts ,glucose 50 , parts ,thin boiling starch ( 70…