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How Many Calories Are in One Sweet?
Per-sweet calories and sugar for common sweets, worked out from the piece weights and nutrition panels on our own products.
Nutrition panels are printed per 100g, which is a useless unit if what you actually want to know is what one sweet costs you. Most single sweets land between 3 and 20 kcal.
We hold two numbers for a lot of our range: the piece weight the supplier declares, and the per-100g panel. Put those together and the per-sweet figure falls out. The table below is worked that way from products on this site — 231 of our lines carry both numbers.
| Sweet | Piece | kcal each | Sugar each |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pips | 0.8g | 3.2 | 0.6g |
| Alphabet letters | 1.0g | 3.8 | 0.5g |
| Fizzy cola bottles (small) | 1.7g | 5.6 | 1.1g |
| Midget gems | 2.0g | 6.7 | 0.8g |
| Gummy frogs | 2.0g | 6.7 | 1.1g |
| Dolly mixture | 1.9g | 7.2 | 1.5g |
| Chewing nuts | 1.7g | 7.3 | 0.9g |
| Candy sticks | 1.9g | 7.5 | 1.5g |
| Chocolate raisins | 1.7g | 7.5 | 1.1g |
| Chocolate drops | 1.5g | 7.9 | 0.8g |
| Foam shrimps | 2.4g | 9.0 | 1.9g |
| Aniseed balls | 2.5g | 9.1 | 2.3g |
| Jelly beans | 2.8g | 10.2 | 1.7g |
| Chocolate peanuts | 1.9g | 10.5 | 0.7g |
| Mint imperials | 2.7g | 11.4 | 2.6g |
| Jelly buttons (spogs) | 4.0g | 13.3 | 2.2g |
| Fruit salad gums | 4.6g | 14.7 | 1.8g |
| Jelly babies (Iron Brew) | 5.1g | 15.9 | 2.5g |
| Wine gums | 4.9g | 16.3 | 2.5g |
| Fizzy bears | 5.0g | 16.5 | 2.8g |
| Sugar free barley sugar | 5.7g | 16.6 | 0.0g |
| Jelly babies (Vimto) | 6.0g | 21.0 | 4.1g |
The size of the sweet matters more than the type
The pattern in that table is not about chocolate versus gum or fizzy versus plain. It is almost entirely weight. A jelly baby has nearly seven times the calories of a pip because it is nearly eight times the size. Chocolate is the one genuine exception — chocolate peanuts pack 10.5 kcal into 1.9g because fat carries more than twice the calories per gram that sugar does.
Which is worth knowing if you are choosing what to put in a party bag or a pick and mix. Ten small sweets can cost you less than three large ones.
Sugar free does not mean calorie free
Look at the barley sugar row: 0.0g of sugar and still 16.6 kcal. Sugar free sweets are sweetened with maltitol, isomalt and sorbitol, which are carbohydrates with calories in them — fewer than sugar, but not none. What they mainly change is the effect on blood glucose and on teeth, not the calorie count.
More on that in are sugar free sweets OK for diabetics and are mints good for your teeth.
How much is in a 200g bag?
Take the piece weight and divide. A 200g bag of aniseed balls at 2.5g each is about 80 sweets. The same bag of Vimto jelly babies at 6g each is about 33. That is the number people usually actually want when they are working out party bags — there is a fuller version in how much pick and mix do you need per person.
Where these numbers come from
Every figure here is derived from the supplier declaration published on the product page it refers to, not from a general nutrition database. Suppliers reformulate and piece weights drift, so the product page is the authority. If a panel there disagrees with this table, the panel is right and we would be glad to be told.
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