When I first saw the Jin-Jin Lychee Jelly cups, I thought they were mini gelatin cups. I was basically right. I open the cup and smell something sweet. I smelled a scent that smelled like strawberries. It tastes like a smooth strawberry jello, without the red food coloring. The taste is not a fake strawberry taste but almost like I am eating a small strawberry. The small fruit pieces don't have a flavor and add a unique twist to it. It reminds me of fruit jello from when I was a kid. The kind you get in small packs with the hunks of peach or pear.
I got two fruit cups, one was Lychee
and the other was Fruits Cup, which looked like a fruit
punch flavor. My sister, who is vegetarian, asked me if she could eat
these. Me, forgetting that gelatin
ingredients include parts from animals,
searched to make sure I could say yes. After some research, I found
that these fruit cups do not have gelatin in them. They are instead
made with seaweed extract instead of gelatin
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Seaweed extract is usually called
carrageen extract as well as Carrageenan and can serve as a substitute for gelatin in mousses as well as soft jelly.
The fruit cup was surprisingly good
since I am not a fan of coconut. I could not even taste the coconut,
which helped make the food taste even better. I am curious to see how
the other flavors taste.
