This recipe for homemade Gummy Bears Multivitamin is vegan, gluten-free, sugar-free, and naturally flavored. If you are looking for a cost-effective way to enhance your family’s health, this recipe’s for you.
If you like these homemade multivitamins you may also like this recipe for Vitamin C Anti Inflammatory Juice.
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These homemade gummy bear vitamins are cute, colorful, and nutritious. Best of all they cost a handful of what a multi-vitamin costs at the store. So, if you are looking for an option to store-bought, give this gummy recipe a try.
This recipe is easy and simple. Included below are instructions on how to make red gummy bears from beet juice and orange ones from pure carrot juice. However the choice is yours, so please find the flavor and color your little one will enjoy or use these recipes as a template.
What is agar agar powder?
No typo here, this is what it is called. Agar agar is a natural vegan-vegetarian source of gelatin. Unlike gelatin which is made from animal collagen, agar agar is a natural vegetable gelatin made from seaweed, making these gummy vitamins without gelatin makes them suitable for those who are vegan or vegetarian. If you can’t find agar agar at your local grocery store you may need to make a trip to a health food store.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe For Multivitamin Gummy Bears
Kid-friendly: These brightly colored gummy bears are so cute, the kids will love them.
Simple: If you thought making gummies from scratch was complicated, this recipe will show you it is pretty easy.
Clean ingredients: No artificial colors, added sugars or hard to pronounce ingredients in these gummy vitamins.
Suitable for vegans: These non gelatin gummy bears can be eaten by those who follow a vegan diet.
Ingredients For Vegan Gummy Vitamins
CARROT GUMMY BEARS
- Carrot – Use a peeled carrot to add an orange color.
- Water – Tap water or filtered water are both fine.
- Maple syrup – If you want sweet gummies, add maple syrup. This is optional.
- Liquid multivitamin – Use a liquid multivitamin that you can add to the mixture like this one here.
- Agar agar powder – Agar agar powder helps thicken the gummies.
BEET GUMMY BEARS
- Beet root – You’ll need a small beet root.
- Water – Tap water or filtered water are both fine.
- Maple syrup – Optional
- Liquid multivitamin
- Agar agar powder
How To Make Gummy Vitamins
Step 1: Place the carrot (or beet, one flavor at a time, same process) water, maple syrup in a blender and blend.
Step 2: Using a fine mesh strainer, strain the concentrated juice into a glass bowl. Add the multivitamin and agar agar powder and whisk to combine. Set aside for 5 mins while you work on the next flavor.
Step 3: Pour the carrot mixture into a sauce pan and bring to a simmer, whisking constantly to dissolve any powder.
Step 4: Remove the saucepan from the heat and pour the liquid into the gummy bear mold using the dropper that comes with it.
Step 5: Refrigerate the mold to set the gummy bears and then remove the bears from the mold and store them in a jar in the fridge.
Tips and Variations
Change up the color: Instead of beets and carrots, use a green vegetable to get green gummies or try blueberries for purplish gummies.
Add different nutrients: Try making vitamin c gummies with just vitamin c, add probiotic powder instead of the multivitamin powder or incorporate some omega 3 fats.
Buy a mold: Buy a gummy bear silicone mold so the vitamins are cute and look appealing. It isn’t essential to have this mold but it does help make the gummies kid friendly.
Date the gummies: In case you forget when you made them, label the jar with the date.
FAQs
Yes, you absolutely can! You’ll be surprised at how easy it is to make gelatin free multivitamins at home. With the right ingredients and a special mold, they come together easily.
Homemade gummies may not have the same dosage. The best thing to do is to check the dosing information on the liquid multivitamin.
Yes, you can play around with different fruits and vegetables to get the color and flavor you like.
It is important to check the label if you are buying gummy vitamins at the store. This recipe for gummy vitamins is gluten free.
Make Ahead and Storage
Make ahead: These vegan vitamin gummies will last quite a few weeks in the fridge so there’s no problem with making them ahead of time. This recipe allows for up to 10 gummy vitamins a day for a month supply, however you can make the adjustments that work best for you.
Storage: Store uneaten gummies in the fridge in an airtight container.
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RECIPE TIP
Note these are vitamins, not candy so keep them out of reach of children and read the multivitamin label carefully for the suggested dosage.
Gummy Bears Multivitamin (Vegan + Gluten-free)
Ingredients
Carrot Gummy Bears
- 1 medium carrot
- 1/3 cup water
- 1 tbsp maple syrup optional
- 30 tbsp liquid multivitamin
- 1 1/2 tsp agar agar powder
Beet Gummy Bears
- 1 small beet root
- 1/3 cup water
- 1 tbsp maple syrup optional
- 30 tbsp liquid multivitamin
- 1 1/2 tsp agar agar powder
Instructions
- In a blender add the carrot (or beet, one flavor at a time, same process!) water, maple syrup, and blend.
- Using a fine mesh strainer, strain the concentrated juice into a glass bowl. Add the multivitamin and agar agar powder and whisk to combine. Set aside for 5 mins while you work on the next flavor.
- When done, come back to the carrot multivitamin juice and bring to a simmer, whisking constantly to dissolve any remaining solids/ powder residue (2-3 mins)
- Remove from heat and pour into the gummy bear mold using the dropper (which comes included with the gummy bear mold).
- Refrigerate for 2-3 hours to set. Remove from mold and store in a jar. Keep refrigerated.
Notes
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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These are cute gummy bears multivitamins, I like this recipe because we know what is in that instead of store bought ones with 1000 of ingredients written in small letter which even hard to read as well as for understanding the names you need entire day to google it.
Hahaha, I know right?!! It’s why I love making our own. It’s easier, cheaper, safer and fun to make!
Seriously, you are Amazing!! You made gummy multi-vitamins at home and they look so pretty. First of all, I didnt even know you could make them at home and second, those gummy molds look so cute.
Thank you so much Molly! Yes you can make them and they are easy and super fun 🙂
Ok, these are way too cute! I know they’re vitamins, but I’d be weary about having those in my house. I’d eat them like candy! Wait – aren’t vitamins supposed to be a one-a-day type of thing? 🙂
That is correct Byron, you are only limited to a few a day. However, you are certainly welcome to keep the vitamin out and just make candy 🙂 Thanks so much!
These are so cool! I love that they are vegan. I’ve been a vegetarian for most of my life, and finding veg vitamins can be challenging. I bet these are really tasty too. Oh, and I love that little bear tray – I need to get one.
Yep, fining vegan gluten-free vitamin isn’t the easiest thing and when you do find, they are rather expensive. Thanks for your kind note!
I love the idea of making my own vitamin gummies. I buy some for the kids all the time but I am always skeptical of the additives they put in them. I will have to wander around whole foods for a while (there are worse ways to spend your time lol) and find some liquid multi-vitamin mix.
Hm I love spending time at Whole Foods, whole body department, there is always something new to learn 🙂 Thanks so much Jen!
I love, love, love the idea of homemade multivitamins! But is it correct that you use 3 tablespoons of the liquid multivitamin in each batch? For the product you use, a serving size is 1 tablespoon of vitamin. So each batch of gummy vitamins in theory is only three days worth of your vitamin serving. That’s a LOT of gummies to eat! Can you replace the water with more liquid vitamin to get the number of gummies you have to eat a day down?
Absolutely Julie! you make the adjustment that works best for you. Next batch I will probably take away 1/2 of the water and replace it with liquid vitamin, I am afraid the kids will take more then they should like they always do. Thanks for the observation, will make a few adjustments to the recipe
So, if you take away half the water. Then they should only take 5, instead of 10? Also, I’m guessing the heat of simmering isn’t destroying the Vitamins in any way? That was what I was worried about the most. I just happened to have this same vitamin already & went online to find a recipe for the vit gummies with the liquid vitamins to see if that was the case. (Losing potency with heat) I’m excited I found your recipe! I don’t have the agar agar right now, but I have great lakes gelatin. When I use all of that up I will order the plant based.
Also, I already have a bunch of the gummy molds. I wanted to start making my own elderberry gummies because my daughter doesn’t like the syrup. But I bet she would love the gummies. Especially with orange juice, or another juice.
Elderberry gummies sound fantastic, and it’s so good for the immune system. I am glad you liked this recipe and hope they turned out okay for you.
I am sitting here for almost 5 minutes and can’t write anything. I would have never ever thought that we could make gummy bears at home. My 6 year old just loves gummy bears and gummy worms and I have a hard time buying something that is vegetarian. We don’t eat meat and hence try to stay away from gelatin as much as we can. This is my new found treasure and I am definitely making it soon. I have agar agar powder in the pantry and I am going to try without the multivitamins this week.
Thats fantastic Sandhya! give it a try without the multivitamin, and make some healthier candy for your little one. Let me know how it turn out for you!
Very interesting,I am all for making your own anything over store bought. If my mother agrees to this I am going to make these for my little brother.
Haha, it’s so much better, isn’t it? hope you guys enjoy it!
What a brilliant recipe!! This is such a clever idea. The bear molding pan is so cute too.
Thanks Kim! I think the gummy bears mold make anything looks cute!
I prefer fruit gummies to vegetable ones. Can I use fruit juice, or do I need to use whole fruit? And how much would I need? Thanks, I look forward to trying these. 🙂
You can use 1 cup of fruit juice and 1 1/2 tsp of agar agar. This should work fine. Multivitamin is also optional (but a good idea too!). These are super fun to make! Hope you like it 🙂