Organic Gummy Bears

How it scored 75 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 16 listed

• 1 Tapioca Syrup
  Sweet syrup produced by enzymatic hydrolysis of tapioca (cassava) starch into glucose and other saccharides.
  Low
• 2 Cane Sugar
  Sucrose (a disaccharide of glucose and fructose) crystallized from sugar cane juice; chemically identical to beet sugar.
  Moderate
• 3 Water
  Water intended for human consumption; the most common ingredient in processed foods and beverages. Bottled water is regulated as a food unde…
  Safe
• 4 Gelatine
  Gelatine (E428) is a protein derived from animal collagen, typically from pig or cow skin and bones.
  Low
• 5 Concentrated Lemon Juice
  Lemon juice with water removed by evaporation.
  Safe
• 6 Tapioca
  Starch extracted from cassava root (Manihot esculenta), sold as flour, pearls, or flakes.
  Safe
• 7 Potato Starch
  Native starch extracted from potato tubers.
  Safe
• 8 Agar
  Agar-agar: a hydrocolloid polysaccharide extracted from red algae (class Rhodophyceae).
  Low
• 9 Sunflower Oil
  Edible vegetable oil pressed from the seeds of Helianthus annuus, typically high in linoleic acid (omega-6) or, in high-oleic varieties, ole…
  Low
• 10 Citric Acid
  Citric acid (E330), a weak organic acid naturally present in citrus fruit and produced commercially via Aspergillus niger fermentation.
  Low
• 11 Fruits And Vegetables
  Generic umbrella term for plant-derived produce ingredients.
  Safe
• 12 Natural Flavouring
  A regulatory umbrella term (21 CFR 101.22) for flavor extracts derived from spices, fruit, vegetable, herb, bark, root, leaf, meat, seafood,…
  Low
• 13 Turmeric
  Ground rhizome of the Curcuma longa plant; primary active compound is curcumin.
  Safe
• 14 Orange Essential Oil
  Essential oil cold-pressed from orange peel (Citrus sinensis).
  Safe
• 15 Carnauba Wax
  Carnauba wax (E903) is a natural wax obtained from the leaves of the Brazilian carnauba palm.
  Low
• 16 Colour
  Generic ingredient term covering any of dozens of permitted colour additives — synthetic dyes (e.g. tartrazine E102, allura red E129, brilli…
  Low