Have you heard of Glee gum? Glee Gum is all natural chewing gum made with sustainably harvested rainforest chicle. It comes in 8 great flavors and is the #1 healthy alternative to synthetic chewing gum and bubble gum! No artificial colors, flavors, preservatives, or sweeteners. One of the things i love about Glee gum is that their sugar-free gum is made with xylitol, NOT aspartame! All Glee Gum is: vegetarian, GMO free, additive free, dairy free, wheat free, gluten free, egg free, yeast free, nut free, peanut free, and soy free*. Sugar-free Glee Gum is also corn free. Pretty cool, right?
Not only does Glee make all natural chewing gum, but they also offer educational natural candy making kits.
Make your own chewing gum, gummies, and chocolate with DIY activity kits. Educational and eco-friendly, each kit comes with natural ingredients, simple instructions, and a brief history. They're designed to captivate your interest, connect you to the global community, and create something yummy to eat in the process. Fun for classrooms, kitchens, and birthday parties! They also include lesson plans on their website, making the kits perfect for homeschoolers!
A few years ago we made chocolate using one of the Glee Gum candy making kits! It was a lot of fun and the chocolates were delicious. You can read about our experience here.
This time the kids really wanted to try the Make your own gummies kit. The gummies are made using seaweed, rather than gelatin. So, my kids were really excited to try it out! The kit includes sour mix, colored and flavored sugar, powdered seaweed, seaweed, molding starch, instructions and the story of carrageenan.
The instructions are very simple. They can be made on the stovetop or microwave. All you have to do is wash the seaweed and boil it for a few minutes until the carrageenan is extracted. Then take out the seaweed itself, mix in the sugar, boil it again, pour it in the molds, and then add the sour mix! That's it - you have made your own yummy gummies!
The kit does not include molds, but instead uses molding starch so that you can make your own molds. The directions suggested using very simple items to press into the starch. We tried legos and few other things. They pretty much all came out looking the same. If we were to do this again, i think we'd would just use a finger to make long lines in the molding starch, so our finished product would be gummy worms!
After the gummies cooled, we rinsed them and then the kids placed them in a ziplock back with the sour mix, and coated them. Both kids loved them!
The texture was soft and gel like, rather than chewy but that didn't bother them at all. The sour mix that we coated them in had a pretty good flavor.
We really enjoyed the process of making gummies, and it was neat to learn the history and information about seaweed. i really like these kits, not just because i have a sweet tooth and love the idea of natural candy...but because they really are fun and educational!
Want to make
your own candy from scratch?
It’s easy
with 3 fun activity kits! You can purchase them
Each kit
includes natural ingredients, simple instructions, and info about the history
and origins of familiar treats. Everyone aged 8 and up gets a real kick out of
the process. (Younger children enjoy it too, with adult supervision.) Educational
and eco-friendly, the kits are designed to captivate your interest, connect you
to the global community, and create something yummy for you to eat!
Want to win one?
Glee gum generously offered 1 kit of the winner's choice (Make Your Own Chewing Gum, Gummies or Chocolate) to one of my lucky readers! Contest is open to US mailing adresses only, please enter using the rafflecopter form below!
Glee gum generously offered 1 kit of the winner's choice (Make Your Own Chewing Gum, Gummies or Chocolate) to one of my lucky readers! Contest is open to US mailing adresses only, please enter using the rafflecopter form below!
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Ohh my ladies would love this!
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ReplyDeletethe 1st successful bubblegum was pink cuz that was the only color the inventor had left!
ReplyDeleteI saw that on a discovery show about how gum was made. Very cool!
DeleteHannah had some seaweed in K that one of the parent's brought, and we have been looking for it ever since with no luck. She LOVED it.....so i think she would get a huge kick out of making candy that was made from seaweed.
ReplyDeletebtw, did you know that Xylitol is very very poisonous to dogs ?? at least that's what the vet said ............
Chicle is the sap from the sapodilla (pronounced "sap-oh-dee-yah") tree, which grows in the rainforests of Central America.
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definitely the gummy kit, so we can boil seaweed....:D
ReplyDeleteI think I would like to try the gum...
ReplyDeleteI learned that chewing gum burns around 11 calories per hour.
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I would choose the Gummie kit!
ReplyDeleteI would love the chocolate kit.
ReplyDeleteI learned we may be able to eat your product...winning it would be great! Also good to know you're aspartame and icky yucky=stuff free. : )
ReplyDeleteI would like to earn any of the kits! probably the chocolate one - to add my chocolate nibs to. :)
ReplyDeleteI learned that Glee Gum base has super chewy natural chicle harvested from Sapodilla trees in the rain forests of Central America.
ReplyDeleteI am a classic! I would choose the Make Your Own Chocolate kit.
ReplyDeleteSeyda and I would love to try this!
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that Singapore had banned gum!
ReplyDeleteThe Gummie kit would be fun
ReplyDeletei learned that Verve is an independent, certified woman-owned business.
ReplyDeleteit was nice to learn that glee uses sustainable practices is working to plant trees in central america
ReplyDeletei think we've tried the gummies before....i might go for the chocolate!
ReplyDeleteMy kids would LOVE this!!
ReplyDeleteShawna
I would choose the gummies!!
ReplyDeleteShawna
My boys love "fruit chews", as they call em. They would have so much fun with this!
ReplyDeleteCurrently, we carry Tangerine, Peppermint, Cinnamon, Spearmint, Bubblegum, Triple Berry, Sugar-Free Refresh-Mint and Sugar-Free Lemon-Lime flavors!
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that WWII helped spread the popularity of gum.
ReplyDeleteMy boys would love to make something like this! Well, so would their mom, lol, but I think the kids would get more from it.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to win the gum kit, although with the twins being so young I suppose it'd be more fair to do the gummies, so they could enjoy them too.
ReplyDeleteI think I'd choose the gum kit, the boys have made hard candy and chocolate with me but gum would be new and exciting.
ReplyDeleteGum kit most definitely. Since i found glee can not get enough of it.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea that Glee gum was natural chewing gum made with sustainably harvested rainforest chicle!
ReplyDeleteeither the gummies or chocolate :)
ReplyDeleteI learned that Glee Gum is all natural chewing gum made with sustainably harvested rainforest chicle.
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My Email: abbegirl1977 at gmail dot com
I would choose the make your own chocolate.
ReplyDeleteMy Name: Heather Abbe
My Email: abbegirl1977 at gmail dot com
the kits look so fun, and the instructions seem simple, I love the gummies but making your own chocolate :) heaven!
ReplyDeleteI have learned that the gum has very natural ingredients and has none of the major allergens.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
I would choose the gummy kit, I think.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
they have no artificial colors, flavors, preservatives, or sweeteners
ReplyDeletechocolate kit
ReplyDeleteI learned Glee products are eco friendly
ReplyDeleteI would choose the chewing gum kit.
ReplyDeletei learned they are an environmentally friendly company
ReplyDeletemy son would love this
ReplyDeleteMy son would love this. It seems like a wonderful family activity.
ReplyDeleteI think seeing the many uses for seaweed would be so interesting to my son.
ReplyDeleteI learned that "Gum base is the indigestible part of the gum that gives it a chewy texture."
ReplyDeleteI'd love to win the one to make Gummies
ReplyDeleteNo artificial colors, flavors, preservatives, or sweeteners (no aspartame).
ReplyDeletemy girls would love to make their own gum
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that chewing gum burns around 11 calories per hour.
ReplyDeleteI would get the Make Your Own Gummies
ReplyDeleteMy son would love this
ReplyDeleteLearned--- that all flavors of Glee Gum are now certified kosher! Look for the seal of certification from the International Kosher Council to appear on our boxes starting this spring.
ReplyDeleteLike to try the Gum Kit.
ReplyDeleteI learned that the sugar-free gum is made with xylitol.
ReplyDeleteI'd choose the Make Your Own Chewing Gum kit.
ReplyDeleteI would love the chocolate but the kids would prolly chose the gum
ReplyDeleteIt was nice to learn that there are no artificial colors, flavors, preservatives, or sweeteners. If I win, I think my girls would prefer the gummy kit. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI have learned that the gum has very natural ingredients and has none of the major allergens.
ReplyDeleteI have learned that the gum has very natural ingredients and has none of the major allergens.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a fun summer time activity on a rainy day. I learned they use sustainable harvesting for their gum products
ReplyDeleteI'd choose make your own gummies cause that is what my kids would like best.
ReplyDeleteSwallowed gum won’t clog up your intestines, but it will be with you for a few days. Gum base can’t be digested so it will pass through your system in one piece.
ReplyDeleteI would love the gummies please.
ReplyDeleteChewing gum burns 11 calories an hour
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I love the gummies
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I learned that Glee Gum is all natural chewing gum made with sustainably harvested rainforest chicle.
ReplyDeleteI learned if you record your purchase of Glee products on their site, they'll purchase a tree in your name.
ReplyDeleteNancy
allibrary (at) aol (dot) com
I would get the gummies kit. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI learned that Glee gum is all natural and made from rainforest chicle.
ReplyDeleteI would choose the Gum Kit.
ReplyDeleteI love that they plant trees in central america. I would choose the gum kit
ReplyDeleteI would get the gummies kit. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI learned that is all natural chewing gum made with sustainably harvested rainforest chicle.
ReplyDeleteI would choose the gum.
ReplyDeleteThey're made with real sugar.
ReplyDeleteChocolate kit.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like everyone learned the same thing.The gum is all natural and made with sustainably harvested rainforest chicle.I'd like to make chocolate.Thank you for the cool giveaway :)
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chewing gum burns 11 calories! woot! lexbaylor17 (at) gmail (dot) com
ReplyDeleteI would choose the Chocolate Kit
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I would take the chocolate kit. lexbaylor17 (at) gmail (dot) com
ReplyDeleteI think it's awesome that you can make gum! Sounds like a lot of fun. I like that you even burn calories chewing! :D
ReplyDeleteNo artificial colors, flavors, preservatives, or sweeteners (no aspartame).
ReplyDeleteNo artificial colors, flavors, preservatives, or sweeteners (no aspartame).
ReplyDeleteI think I would choose the gum, because I think it's just awesome that you can make it!
ReplyDeleteI'd choose the chocolate.
ReplyDeleteNancy
allibrary (at) aol (dot) com
I learned that they work to plant trees in South America, and they will plant one in your name.
ReplyDeleteI learned that they work to plant trees in South America, and they will plant one in your name.
ReplyDeleteI would choose the gummy kit.
ReplyDeleteI learned that they have 8 different flavors, and are all-natural. They're even sweetened with REAL sugar. :-)
ReplyDeleteLori Taube
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I would choose the gummies!! :-)
ReplyDeleteLori Taube
cltaube @ gmail.com
Glee Gum contains NO artificial preservatives, flavors, colors, or sweeteners - awesome!
ReplyDeleteprobably the gummies, but i would let my kids pick
ReplyDeleteI learned that their products are all natural.
ReplyDeleteLove the make your own gummies kit!
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ReplyDeleteI would choose glee gum... my kids are diabetic and this is an awesome product
ReplyDeleteWith this Gummies Kit you get a chance to see seaweed work its invisible magic, yourself.
ReplyDeleteWith this Gummies Kit you get a chance to see seaweed work its invisible magic, yourself. Sounds like fun!
ReplyDeleteMy kids would love any of the kits! I would love to try the candy kit too :)
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