Gummy Candy Lab

Mold your own delicious gummy candies using a natural gelatin-like ingredient called carrageenan that comes from seaweed! Flavor and sweeten your mixture with two flavors and then mold the gummy shapes in the included mold. You can even add citric acid to make sour gummies! Learn about the scientific properties of natural polymers.

Experiment Manual Contains:

• Part One: Make Your Own Gummy Candies. This kit makes one batch of lemon flavored gummies and one batch of cherry flavored gummies.
• Part Two: Six Gummy Experiments

For ages 6 and up

Ingredients:
Sour Mixture: Sugar, citric acid
Seaweed Powder: corn syrup solids, agar gum, carrageenan, tara gum
Cherry Flavoring and Sugar Mixture: sugar, beet juice powder (as color), natural flavors
Lemon Flavoring and Sugar Mixture: sugar, beta-carotene (as color), natural flavors

TO MAKE THE GUMMIES, YOU WILL ALSO NEED:
water
measuring spoons
microwave-safe container or cooking pot
spoon
toothpick or fork

FOR SOME EXPERIMENTS, YOU WILL ALSO NEED:
drinking glass or jar
measuring cup
food coloring
tablespoon and teaspoon
microwave-safe plates
small red cabbage
knife
cooking pot
strainer
bowl
baking powder
pencil
kitchen string
granulated sugar

KITCHEN EQUIPMENT:
microwave
stove
sink

Once you receive your kits, please read through each experiment to make sure you have everything you need for the experiments prior to starting!