Stomach-churning film shows gory reality of how gummy lollies are made

Gummy lollies might be delicious, but a stomach-churning video may help you to kick the sugar habit if you're trying to.

BEWARE GRAPHIC: This video shows the graphic gelatin making process, the key ingredient in gummy lollies.

Belgian filmmaker Alina Kneepkens has produced a short film which depicts the process of how gummy candy is made, in reverse.

Watermelon-flavoured lollies bounce around on a factory machinery.Photo: Alina Kneepkens
Watermelon-flavoured lollies bounce around on a factory machinery.Photo: Alina Kneepkens

In the video, tiny watermelon lollies bounce around on a factory line.

In reverse, pork skin is boiled, dried and ground up to create the gristly-like texture.

The flavouring and fat is combined with colouring to create lollies. Photo: Alina Kneepkens
The flavouring and fat is combined with colouring to create lollies. Photo: Alina Kneepkens
The pork at is boiled, dried and ground up to create the gristly-like texture. Photo: Alina Kneepkens
The pork at is boiled, dried and ground up to create the gristly-like texture. Photo: Alina Kneepkens

As it goes on the footage becomes more graphic, showing hundreds of pigs being blow-torched.

Pig skin is sliced off and transported in the video - which Kneepkens described as "a true eye opener".

GRAPHIC: The pork skin is blowtorched before it is sliced off. Photo: Alina Kneepkens
GRAPHIC: The pork skin is blowtorched before it is sliced off. Photo: Alina Kneepkens

"I saw quite a few slaughter houses and examples of both industrial and artisan food production," she said on her website.

Here is the full video.