Candies & Lollipops & Jelly beans

Candies, lollipops and jellies – colourful sweets chosen consciously

Candies, lollipops and jellies are sweets associated with childhood, small pleasures, gifts and special occasion snacks. They may have fruity, herbal, caramel, milky, sour or classic flavours. However, it is worth choosing them carefully, paying attention to ingredients, types of colourings, flavours, gelling agents, sugar content and raw material origin.

A good choice is sweets from trusted producers, local workshops, certified makers and companies using natural flavours and plant-based colourings. Products made with fruit juices, natural extracts, honey, sugar from known sources or pectins can be a better choice than sweets with very long and unclear ingredient lists.

What should you pay attention to?

It is best to choose sweets with simpler ingredients and clearly described additions. Intense colour does not always mean better taste, so it is worth checking whether it comes from natural sources.

• natural fruit flavours can give candies and jellies a pleasant taste without an artificial character,
• plant-based colourings, for example from fruit or vegetables, are a better choice than unnecessary synthetic additions,
• pectins are plant-based gelling ingredients often used in jellies and fruit sweets,
• a short ingredient list makes it easier to choose products without excess artificial flavours, colourings or preservatives,
• organic sweets are made from raw materials from controlled sources and may have more transparent origin.

How to choose colourful sweets?

When shopping, it is worth checking ingredients, sugar content, type of gelling agents, colourings, flavours and certificates. Candies, lollipops and jellies are best treated as an occasional pleasure while choosing products with the best possible composition. Good candies, lollipops and jellies combine more natural taste, simpler ingredients, trusted raw materials and confidence in the producer.