How to use Knox/Jello Gelatin to Pass a Drug Test - VACMR (2024)

Article updated: 2022 Apr 17 / Author Leslie Griver, Robert Henry

Use of Gelatin is one of the tricks for passing a marijuana drug test. How these method works is simple for anyone to understand. Below is in-depth coverage of how you can make good use of Gelatin in passing a drug test, with comprehensive explanations made on how the method works and a step to step guide of how to carry it out.

However, for you to understand the “Gelatin method” by heart, it is essential for you to know the basics of how the human body metabolizes cannabis.

Basics of Marijuana Metabolism and Detection

After marijuana consumption, its main active component is delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), and its main metabolism takes place in the liver. THC is metabolized into two main metabolites which are: THC-COOH and 11-OH-THC.

THC-COOH is highly soluble in fat, so a lot of it gets trapped in your fat cells as it flows through your system. After a few hours of such “trapping,” a great percentage of THC-COOH is stored in your fat cells while the remainder gets excreted in urine.

Whenever your body exhausts its main energy source (glycogen), it tends to turn to fat cells for energy supply. As fat cells get burned, the THC-COOH that was stored in them is released into the bloodstream. This, in turn, makes THC-COOH detectable in urine and blood, among other body fluids.

Detection and Measurement of Marijuana

The main mode of testing for marijuana is checking for delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in urine.

The recommended cut-off value for detecting cannabinoids as guided by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is 50 ng/ml. For urine samples that have a cannabinoid concentration that meets or surpasses this figure, the interpretation made is that the person has had recent exposure to cannabis or is a heavy cannabis user. On the other hand, lower THCA concentrations in the marijuana urine test can be linked to occasional cannabis use.

Will Gelatin Help You to Pass a Drug Test

For daily marijuana users, there is an excellent chance that their THC levels in their body are elevated. THC has quite a long half-life, and it’s a metabolite that can have some stores in your body fat. This, in turn, means that the more frequently you use marijuana, the more steadily THC levels accumulate in your body. However, there are some recent indications for the use of Gelatin to help mask the traces of THC in your body, hence making a marijuana user not to have a positive urine test for THC.

What is Gelatin

Gelatin, also known as Certo or sure jell are components of baking ingredients used in jams, jellies and the baking of cakes. Their main ingredient is known as fruit pectin (a soluble type of fiber).

How does Gelatin Function in Helping You to Pass a Marijuana Urine Test

One of the most common misconceptions concerning pectin is that it coats the inner segment of your stomach and bladder to block THC from finding its way to the bladder and consequently preventing its delivery into the urine. Don’t be misguided!

Gelatin works by accelerating the elimination of THC from the body. To begin with, you should know that THC, as well as its primary metabolites, are usually fat soluble and that your body produces bile so that it can bind to all the fat you ingest and cause it to dissolve in water.

With this in mind, research has shown that fruit pectin has an affinity for bile found in the intestines and leaves the human body only through stool, hence making it be sent automatically to your colon. So, it makes sense to say that if the fruit pectin binds to bile containing THC (because THC is fat soluble), it will transport it to its (fruit pectin`s) route of elimination which is the fecal route.

In addition to this, fruit pectin is known to increase your bowel movements, hence making you have an increased frequency in voiding stool which contains THC containing bile that’s bound to fruit pectin.

As we’ve seen from earlier on, most of the cannabinoids leave the human body via the urinary route, hence the reason why they are tested through taking urine samples. However, as has been explained above, the main path of THC elimination is through your stool. The THC metabolites that end up in urine are derived from the remnants that are reabsorbed from the intestines and then into your blood before they could leave via your stool. When fruit pectin leaves your body, it brings out the bile-bound THC along with it.

So this interprets that as fiber leaves your body while taking THC with it, there are lower levels of THC available for the reabsorption process into the blood and urine. By so doing, it makes urine tests to turn out negative because of little amounts of THC to be excreted in urine. On top of that, with the increased bowel movements, there is a rise in the levels of THC that`s eliminated via stool within a short period, hence decreasing the chances of reabsorption.

In a nutshell, fruit pectin is effective for preventing THC being detected in urine samples by propelling its elimination via the fecal route rather than via urine. By so doing, you have gifted a narrow window of opportunity where you can safely pass a marijuana urine test.

Why It’s Not Reliable

There’s a lack of scientific research or evidence to support this line of logic. In addition to lack of enough evidence, when being instructed on how to use the Gelatin method, you are required to drink large volumes of water, to act as a form of dilution method.

When you take a urine test after doing this, you are likely to be put through a series of additional tests. This is because urine tests also factor in parameters such as the urine`s specific gravity as well as the urine creatinine levels. For those who misuse the dilution method, these values are bound to get altered, hence raising some suspicion and sentencing you to more confirmatory tests.

This could end up working against you because of the nature of the other tests for marijuana. As much as they are less effective as compared to the urine test, they are more difficult to pass. This is because they involve the analysis of human samples such as blood whose results are difficult to alter. In addition to this, the techniques used to analyze samples such as immunoassays are highly likely to flesh out any tinge of marijuana in your system.

The Method

The steps below provide some insight into how to go about the Gelatin method:

You should begin by counting around 3 hours before your scheduled time of giving your urine sample. Take an entire Certo packet in your Gatorade (for those who require space, take some zips from it beforehand).

Follow this by shaking until you’re sure that the Certo has entirely dissolved in the Gatorade and has become much thicker, resembling a jelly or jam.

At this stage, all that you’re left to do is drink it all. You should be warned that its taste is quite unpleasant, but if you would want even the slightest chance of passing the drug test, you must finish it!

Ensure that you take water right after you’re done and for the remaining time before your drug screening (It’s advisable to down at least a gallon of water).

Make sure that you urinate 3 or 4 times before you leave a urine sample for the drug testing. This assists hugely in getting rid of contaminated urine that could be present before the THC was bound by the Certo in your intestines.

Take a vitamin-B pill 1 hour before your urine screening to add color to your urine as you continue to finish your gallon of water. Failure to do so could be fatal because there is a high chance that your urine will end up being crystal clear.