Satisfy all of your sour candy cravings, with this healthy sour patch grapes recipe!

3 ingredient healthy sour candy

If you grew up with Sour Skittles, Sour Patch Kids, and Warheads, these homemade sour patch grapes will bring you straight back to childhood.

They are tart, sweet, and so much fun to make!

And unlike many other sour grape candy recipes out there, this one can be made with no gelatin, no artificial sweeteners, and no sugar required.

After school snacking will never be the same.

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Ingredients for sour patch grapes

While you can find recipes all over TikTok and other social media touting the viral sour candy grapes as “healthier candy,” every one of the recipes I saw called for coating the grapes in either lime gelatin, sugar free Jell-O, or straight-up white sugar.
So, grapes with added sugar" You might as well be eating candy.

Wanting to try the popular unicorn grape candy idea, but in a healthier way, I decided to use electrolyte powder instead of sugar for the candy coating.

And it worked perfectly!

All you need for this recipe is fresh grapes, lemon juice or lime juice, and an effervescent powdered drink mix like Emergen-C.

It really is that easy.

Above – watch the sour patch grapes recipe video

What type of grapes"

Feel free to use any grape variety you wish.

This includes green grapes, red grapes, or black, yellow, pink, wh...