Is Mike and Ike Original Fruits Cherry Assorted Fruit Flavored Candy ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- Flavouring
- Glucose
- Modified starch
- E102 Tartrazine
- E110 Sunset yellow FCF
- E129 Allura red
- and 3 more
- 17 ingredients
- 10 additives
- Nutri-Score E
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
sugar (processing marker), corn syrup (ultra-processing marker), modified food starch (ultra-processing marker), citric acid, malic acid, fumaric acid, sodium citrate, NATURAL and ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS (ultra-processing marker), dextrin (ultra-processing marker), confectioners glaze, carnauba wax (ultra-processing marker), medium chain triglycerides, red #40 (ultra-processing marker), yellow #6 (ultra-processing marker), yellow #5 (ultra-processing marker) (tartrazine), blue #1 (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E102 Tartrazine , E110 Sunset yellow FCF , E129 Allura red , E133 Brilliant blue FCF , E1400 Dextrin , E296 Malic acid , E297 Fumaric acid , E330 Citric acid , E331 Sodium citrates , E903 Carnauba wax
As written on the pack
SUGAR, CORN SYRUP, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, CITRIC ACID, MALIC ACID, FUMARIC ACID, SODIUM CITRATE, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, DEXTRIN, CONFECTIONERS GLAZE, CARNAUBA WAX, MEDIUM CHAIN TRIGLYCERIDES, RED #40, YELLOW #6, YELLOW #5 (TARTRAZINE), BLUE #1
What makes it ultra-processed
Cosmetic additives
Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.
- E102 Tartrazine Tartrazine is a synthetic yellow azo dye (FD&C Yellow No. 5 in the US).
- E110 Sunset yellow FCF Sunset yellow FCF is a synthetic orange azo dye (FD&C Yellow No. 6 in the US).
- E129 Allura red Allura red AC is a synthetic red azo dye (FD&C Red No. 40 in the US).
- E133 Brilliant blue FCF Brilliant blue FCF is a synthetic blue dye, listed in the US as FD&C Blue No. 1.
- E1400 Dextrin Dextrin is starch partly broken down by heat or acid, used as a thickener, binder and coating.
- E903 Carnauba wax Carnauba wax comes from the leaves of a Brazilian palm and gives sweets and coated chocolates their shine.
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- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
- Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.
Substances rarely used in home kitchens
Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.
- Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
4 ingredients that would only make it processed
Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.
Among 486 candies
From least to most processed, this one ranks 369th. 96% of the candies here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0070970475337, last edited 20 September 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
- Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
- NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of E (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.