I’ve never met a child who does not like gelatin, is actually a food that appeals to young and old alike. What is it? What are their properties? Is it food? Are some of the doubts we have.
Gelatin is composed of proteins derived from collagen extracted from bones and cartilage of animals after boiling and cooling its sediment. At this stage there is odorless, colorless and tasteless, but it mixes easily with different substances and takes the color and flavor we all know.
The gelatin can be used as dessert, adding color and flavor, to this same mixture can introduce fresh fruit can be served pure gelatin served with fruit or prepare individual servings of fruit inside. Besides gelatin, as a fresh dessert, you can use during the first baby teeth to cool his inflamed gums.
Another way is to use gelatin as a thickener for setting coverage desserts fresh fruits and also in the manufacture of jams, jellies, ice cream and marshmallows.
The gelatin can be used as a thickener for all kinds of sweet or salty foods (unflavored gelatin also known as isinglass).
One of the properties of gelatin is its lack of fat and few preservatives (especially if it is homemade) and of course, its nutritional value. Quite simply, yes, their proteins are not complete because they lack some essential amino acids.
However, find-and have time to prepare homemade gelatin is a bit difficult, right? The gelatin is sold commercially, with flavors and bright colors contains large amounts of sugar (sugar, glucose or dextrose, glucose syrup or fructose syrup). The last two even hotter than the simple sugar, so one can not abuse its consumption. The dyes used in many substances are not well-suited to young children.
Okay gelatin industrialized offer occasionally yes, it is a way to make liquids are consumed in a funny way because the gelatin absorbs five to ten times its own weight and swells to form the dough elastic and transparent, and it is a way to increase the energy of children without any rejections. (A portion of gelatin provides between 70 and 150 kilocalories, depending on the brand and the concentration of water is used).
Well, in short, gelatin is a food supplement applies to the diet of children should not be abused (like everyone) and is much better if used to promote the consumption of other foods such as milk and fruit.