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Hard candies, from least to most processed

We track 15 hard candies, 87% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is The Original Natural Herb Cough Drops.

What makes hard candies ultra-processed

The signs of ultra-processing found most often, and the share of hard candies that contain each:

Processed food (2)

  1. 1 The Original Natural Herb Cough Drops Ricola 3
  2. 2 Mint Balls Uncle Joes · Tin 3

Ultra-processed food (13)

  1. 3 Werthers Original Drops Sukkerfri 42g Conaxess trade norway · 42g 4
  2. 4 ALTOIDS Curiously Strong Mints Peppermint Altoids · 1.76 oz (50 g) 4
  3. 5 3x POLO 3 MINTS 1 SERVING 18 CALORIES PER SERVING 3 x 34 g 4
  4. 6 Swiss Herbal Sweets: Tasty Cranberry Ricola · 45 grams 4
  5. 7 Orange Tic Tac · 49 g 4
  6. 8 Werther's Original Storck · 135 g 4
  7. 9 Mint Humbugs Tesco · 200 g 4
  8. 10 Clean Breath sugar free Mentos · 150 pieces 4
  9. 11 SweetTarts Original SweetTarts · 36 / 1.8 oz (51 g) 4
  10. 12 Jolly Rancher Hard candy Jolly Rancher · 14 oz 4
  11. 13 Pieces Reese's · 4 oz (113 g) 4
  12. 14 Mynthon Sockerfri Menthol Mynthon 4
  13. 15 Duo Fruit + Cool Strawberry Ice Breakers · 1.3 oz (36 g) 4

Within each group, products with fewer signs of ultra-processing, additives and ingredients come first. This ordering is ours, for comparison; it is not part of NOVA.