Healthy Candies part 2

Once you start into making natural healthy candy, you will find there is no end to the combinations you can create. Our recipe section should give you a start on the road. We make free use of such nutritious foods as sunflower seeds, rice polishings, flaxseeds, powdered whey and wheat germ. These make excellent "fillers" along with fruit and nuts, but are also good on their own. Other wonderful supplements which can be used in small quantities to vitalize your candy are brewer's yeast, rosehip powder, bone meal powder, and dulse. Though honey is the natural choice of binder, vary this
sometimes by using pure maple syrup, molasses and fruit concentrates. Gelatin gives a cohesion to some candies which would otherwise be too soft and sticky. Instead of the proverbial "sugar coating", we use fresh-grated coconut, chopped or ground nuts, sesame seeds, sunflower seed meal even powdered whey.

To the newcomer, many of these healthy candies will not be sweet enough. This can be remedied by using more honey, date sugar or fruit concentrates until the unnatural desire for exaggerated sweet- ness wears off.

There is much in presentation. Make your fruit candies neatly, keep the sizes uniform and decorate enticingly. They can even be attractively wrapped and done up like the commercial candies. This is an especially good idea at festive occasions, when candies feature more prominently.

These candies are made from '"live" ingredients. Any food which is stable, which will keep indefinitely, lacks the properties the body needs for health. Commercial white sugar candies have an almost everlasting life. Health candies, on the whole, must be stored in the refrigerator and eaten quickly. Like any other genuine health product, they will not keep. For this reason, our recipes are for relatively small quantities. However, they are quick and simple. Try our recipes, then experiment with your own. You'll have lots of enjoyment, and the satisfaction of knowing your candies are not detracting from your family's good health.

Healthy Candy recipes

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