Do you think gelatin should not be used in Jelly and Gum-candy?

Question

Well to start off with it's health problems, it's a type of saturated fat and high in calories. Therefore gelatin is harmful in someway

and commercially it's not good because all Jews don't eat gelatin because it's from beef bones right? And Jews and Muslims only eat beef according to lawful and religious slaughtering while this gelatin is industrialy obtained. So no Muslims or Jews will buy jelly products.

Then you have the Vegetarians and all the religious vegetarian people - they won't eat gelatin products..

So do you think an alternative to beef gelatin should be used world wide?

Answer 1

It is ok to be used in my opinion.

It is not high in saturated fat and calories. Base gelatin has 0 fat and 5 calories per serving. Where the saturated fat and calories come into play is from the other ingredients gelatin is added to. Gelatin is the thickening agent

I have been told by a rabbi that gelatin is ok to use. If processed correctly gelatin is kosher. And if you look at boxes of Jello brand jello the kosher symbol is on the box.

Gelatin works and I use it. If it isn't broke why fix it?

Answer 2

You do realize that you can get non-gelatin versions of every product that has gelatin in it? Obviously not as readily available as the gelatin products but not all that hard to find if you look for them.
If we removed everything that was potentially harmful to people there wouldn't me much of anything (or possibly nothing) left to eat.
I am a Vegetarian (and faith makes up a part of the reason why) so I'm right in the middle of your target audience. So here's the deal from my perspective... It would be better for the planet and all of our health to stop the animal trade. Cattle are especially harmful due to their large feed requirements (over half the worlds grains go to feeding cattle). This also results in large amounts of manure which end up being a major global source of water pollution.

If you globally ended the use of gelatin without ending the meat trade what are you going to do with all that (now) junk gelatin? From what I recall each cow produces about 3 pounds of the stuff, since the worldwide cattle trade involves several hundred millions of slaughters per year we're talking about adding an enormous amount of additional landfill space or even more polluted water.

So the answer has to be that until/unless you totally cease the meat industry you shouldn't stop using the stuff (but that doesn't mean I'll use it).

Answer 3

Gelatin is cheap and easy to use. The candy companies have not seen that using gelatin hurts their sales, so they would have no interest in spending the time or money to re-work their recipes to use a gelatin substitute. It's all about the money, and as long as they're doing OK, they aren't going to change a thing.

Answer 4

Gelatin is not a fat; it is a protein.

Not all gelatin is derived from animal (beef) some is derived from fish and therefore Kosher.

Other non-beef, Kosher and Vegan gelatin substitutes exist: Agar-Agar, guar gum and carrageenan, just to name a few.

Answer 5

Well I like it because it's made from beef hooves or pig knuckles. Now if there is somebody that's got problems with that, make it out of Agar-agar which is based on seaweed.

Answer 6

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