Nerds Candy Grape & Strawberry

How it scored 8 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 11 listed

• 1 Dextrose
  D-glucose, a simple sugar (monosaccharide). Produced commercially by complete enzymatic or acid hydrolysis of corn starch.
  Moderate
• 2 Sugar
  Sucrose, a disaccharide of glucose and fructose, refined from sugarcane or sugar beets.
  Moderate
• 3 Malic Acid
  Malic acid (E296) is a dicarboxylic acid found naturally in fruits, especially apples.
  Low
• 4 Corn Syrup
  A sweet, nutritive saccharide mixture produced from corn starch hydrolysate. The high-fructose form (HFCS) contains approximately 42% or 55%…
  Moderate
• 5 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
• 6 Carnauba Wax
  Carnauba wax (E903) is a natural wax obtained from the leaves of the Brazilian carnauba palm.
  Low
• 7 Cochineal
  Cochineal extract: a red color additive obtained from the dried bodies of the cochineal insect (Dactylopius coccus); the principal coloring …
  Moderate
• 8 Colour
  Generic ingredient term covering any of dozens of permitted colour additives — synthetic dyes (e.g. tartrazine E102, allura red E129, brilli…
  Low
• 9 Brilliant Blue Fcf
  Brilliant Blue FCF (FD&C Blue No. 1), a synthetic triphenylmethane dye used to produce a bright blue colour.
  Moderate
• 10 Indigotine
  Indigotine (FD&C Blue No. 2 / Indigo carmine), a synthetic disodium-sulfonated indigoid blue dye.
  Low
• 11 Allura Red
  Allura Red AC (E129; FD&C Red No. 40 in the US) — a synthetic monoazo dye, sodium salt of 6-hydroxy-5-[(2-methoxy-5-methyl-4-sulfophenyl)azo…
  High