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SUPERHERO Gummies – Tart Cherry for Sleep, Elderberry Flowers and Berries for Immunity, and Gelatin for skin

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Elderberry tart cherry gummies for winter - helps with sleep and immunity

Anyone who works with children, or has school-aged children, is on the edge of their seat at this time of year.  Colds, the flu, unexplained tummy bugs – they’re all going around where people are gathered indoors and more in contact with each other’s germs.  Sleep deprivation from being *so excited* about school the next day, or from being up a little worried about the presentation you’re doing tomorrow, or having to get up earlier to catch the school bus can lower our immune system too.  Lastly, dry air from winter, or just from the heaters being on indoors, can cause the nose to dry out, which can bleed easily and/or let in more sneaky germs.

That’s where Superhero Gummies come in – they contain elderberry leaves and berries for immune support, along with tart cherry juice to increase the natural melatonin in the body, which helps with sleep, and lastly gelatin, which helps keep the mucous membranes of the nose in tact.

These gummies are easy to make, and we like to include a few in lunch boxes.

adding tart cherry elderberry gummies to lunch

Super Hero Gummie Recipe

Makes 10 servings

Ingredients

  • 2-1/2 cups 100% tart cherry juice (if you use the concentrate, found here, this is 2-1/2 cups reconstituted according to the directions on the package)
  • 1/4 cup honey (I like this honey here)
  • 1/3 cup high quality gelatin (find the gelatin I use here)
  • 5 capsules ground elderberry berries and leaves (find the capsules I use here)
  • Coconut oil for greasing the pan
  • (Optional) pinch sea salt for trace minerals (find sea salt here)
  • (Optional) juice of one lemon to make these sweet-sour and add some vitamin C

 Directions

Open the capsules, and put the contents of the capsules in a sauce pan, discard the actual capsule.  Combine all ingredients in a small sauce pan, mix well with a fork. Heat over medium heat until gelatin turns clear, stirring every few minutes, about 5-10 minutes.  Grease a glass or other smooth-sided loaf pan or small dish lightly with coconut oil.  Pour clear mixture into loaf pan, allow to cool down to room temp on the counter so you don’t warm up your fridge too much, then cover with plastic wrap and allow to chill in the fridge.

To cut into gummies, use a butter knife to loosen the large gummie block from the container onto a cutting board, and cut into cubes with a butcher knife.  These last for about 10 days in the fridge, covered.

Enjoy!

More information: 

Tart cherry juice for sleep

Elderberries for immune support

If you want to just buy gummies, and you’re not 100% avoiding sugar, I’ve purchased these before and I feel they work! Not for use if you are on the GAPS diet.

 



Elderberry Tart Cherry SUPERHERO Gummies for Sleep and Immunity

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Comments

  1. Sandra Barenys

    October 11, 2014 at 8:19 am

    Are these to be given daily? How many a day for a 2 year old and 6 year old? Thanks!

    Reply
    • Cara

      October 11, 2014 at 8:57 am

      I give them daily – I give a couple 1″ cubes to my kids each day. It serves 10, I’m aiming for about 2 oz of cherry juice and 1/2 of a capsule-worth of the elderberry.

      Reply
  2. Kendra

    October 11, 2014 at 12:11 pm

    Can I grind elderberries, since I don’t have the capsules on hand? If so what would be a good estimate 1 tablespoon?

    Reply
  3. Kelly

    October 17, 2014 at 3:02 pm

    Can I substitute elderberry syrup and how much?

    Reply
    • Cara

      October 17, 2014 at 3:43 pm

      Yes! You could just replace a few tablespoons of the tart cherry with elderberry syrup.

      Reply
  4. Stacy

    November 1, 2014 at 1:25 pm

    I use the same cherry concentrate as in the recipe but can find zero instructions on the package or the company’s website for reconstituting into juice. It tells me two tablespoons to be mixed with beverage of choice but does not tell me how much of the other liquid. Can you please tell me how you reconstitute yours?

    Reply
  5. Lynn

    November 26, 2014 at 4:38 pm

    My batch didn’t turn out so well. I was wondering if I didn’t reconstitute the tart cherry juice properly because the elderberry taste was way too strong snd unpleasant? I used the same juice you recommend and it really doesn’t say how much to use for 2.5 cups. Also the texture of the gelatin was not very pleasant either. Everyone that took a bite spit them out! I must have done something wrong somewhere!

    Reply
    • Cara

      November 26, 2014 at 5:19 pm

      Sorry it didn’t work :( I use the 2 tablespoons of cherry concentrate per 2 cups of water. I hope that helps, we really like them!

      Reply
  6. jen

    December 3, 2014 at 12:37 pm

    Exactly how much cherry juice do you add in to this recipe. You above comment doesn’t make it clear. Thank you.

    Reply
  7. colleen

    December 21, 2014 at 12:23 pm

    doesn’t heating the herbs destroy some of their potency

    Reply
  8. Karen

    February 7, 2015 at 4:02 am

    What is in the lunch you picture on this post? I would love to see more of the combos you put together to learn how to pull together quick-to-prepare paleo lunches that offer variety like the one in the photo. Do you ever do a week of lunches in advance? The inclusion of immunity boosting gummies in school lunches is a great one. Thank you!

    Reply
    • Cara

      March 8, 2015 at 8:51 pm

      You can see some lunch ideas in this post :)
      https://healthhomeandhappiness.com/who-else-needs-easy-gapspaleo-packed-lunch-ideas-for-tomorrow-morning.html

      Reply
  9. Corie

    July 26, 2015 at 11:31 am

    Hello! I have the tart cherry concentrate you have a link to above. I do not see on the bottle the instructions for diluting it as you stated. Do I put 2 tbsp in 2.5 cups of water to reconstitute? I made these with 2.5 cups of straight cherry and the are really tart!

    Reply
    • Jamie

      April 28, 2017 at 12:04 am

      Haha! I did too! They are super tart!

      Reply
  10. Kaycee

    January 13, 2021 at 7:57 am

    Mine were not gummy. They were almost crunchy! What did I do wrong? Maybe cook too long?

    Reply

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