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Sweet Guides

Straight answers about what is actually in sweets - gelatine, allergens, dietary suitability and how much to buy.

18 guides across 5 sections

We publish the full ingredient declaration and per-100g nutrition for every product we sell, which means we spend a lot of time answering questions about what is in things. These guides are those answers, written out properly: what gelatine is and which sweets avoid it, which sweets are genuinely suitable for a halal, vegan or gluten-free diet, and how much to buy for a party without ending up with three kilos left over.

Nothing here is marketing copy dressed up as advice. Where the honest answer is “we cannot guarantee that”, we say so.

Dietary

Sweets and Dietary Needs

Vegan, vegetarian, halal and gluten free - answered from the ingredient declaration rather than from the front of the packet.

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Vegan Sweets Vegetarian Sweets Turkish Sweets
Is Gelatine Vegan or Vegetarian? (No — Here Is Why) Gelatine is made from animal collagen, so it is neither vegan nor vegetarian. Here is how… Read the guide → Is Gelatine Halal? And Which Sweets Are Safe Beef gelatine is not automatically halal, and most confectionery gelatine is pork. Here is how to… Read the guide → What Makes a Sweet Halal? Four ingredients decide it: gelatine, emulsifiers, alcohol-based flavourings and shellac. Here is what each one is… Read the guide → Which Sweets Are Gluten Free? Most sweets contain no gluten ingredient at all. The two that catch people out are wheat… Read the guide → Are Marshmallows Gluten Free? Usually there is no gluten ingredient in a marshmallow, but the dusting starch and the glucose… Read the guide →
Wellbeing

Sweets and Your Health

Sugar, teeth, sugar-free sweeteners and choking risk - including the places where the honest answer is that we are not the right people to ask.

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Sugar Free Sweets
Are Sugar-Free Sweets OK for Diabetics? Sugar-free does not mean carbohydrate-free, and the sweeteners used still count. Here is what is actually… Read the guide → Are Mints Good for Your Teeth? Sugar-Free vs Sugared Sugar-free mints with xylitol genuinely help. Sugared mints do the opposite. The difference is bigger than… Read the guide → Are Lollipops Safe for Children? A Straight Answer on Choking and Age Hard sweets are a genuine choking risk for under-fours. Here is the guidance, the safer formats,… Read the guide →
Ingredients

What Sweets Are Made Of

What liquorice actually is, why toffee is not fudge, what puts the sour on a sour sweet, and what that white film on chocolate means.

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Marshmallows Liquorice Sweets Fizzy & Sour Sweets Chocolate Sweets
What Are Marshmallows Made Of? Sugar, glucose syrup, water and a setting agent whipped full of air. Which setting agent it… Read the guide → What Is Liquorice, and Why Does It Taste Like That? Liquorice is a plant root about fifty times sweeter than sugar. Here is what it is,… Read the guide → Toffee, Fudge and Caramel: What Actually Makes Them Different All three are sugar and dairy cooked together. Temperature and what happens as they cool is… Read the guide → What Makes Sweets Sour? The acids behind sour sweets, the difference between sour and fizzy, and whether they really damage… Read the guide → Why Chocolate Turns White (and Whether You Can Still Eat It) That pale grey film is bloom, not mould. Here is what causes it, why it happens… Read the guide → How to Melt Marshmallows Without Ruining Them Low and slow, with a little liquid. Marshmallows seize and go grainy for a specific reason,… Read the guide →
Events

Buying Sweets for an Occasion

Working quantities for parties, weddings, egg hunts and sweet cones, with the arithmetic shown so you can adjust it for your own guest list.

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Kids Party Treats Wedding Sweets Christmas Sweets
How Much Pick and Mix Do You Need Per Person? Working amounts for parties, weddings and party bags, plus how many sweets you actually get in… Read the guide → What to Put in Sweet Cones (and How Far Ahead to Make Them) Around 100g per cone, built from three textures, with the sweets that survive being made in… Read the guide → Planning an Easter Egg Hunt: How Much to Buy and What to Hide Quantities per child, which sweets survive being hidden outdoors, and how to run a hunt that… Read the guide →
Retro

Retro Sweets and Sweet History

Which sweets belong to which decade, which recipes quietly changed, and which ones are genuinely gone rather than just renamed.

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Retro & Traditional Sweets Boiled Sweets Spanish
Retro Sweets by Decade: What You Actually Remember Which sweets belong to which era, which recipes changed, and which ones are genuinely gone. Read the guide →
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