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Is Sweet Corner Fruit pastilles ultra-processed?

230 g Gummi candies Sold in Ireland

Pack of Sweet Corner Fruit pastilles

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 40 ingredients
  • 7 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed candies

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

sugar, glucose syrup, water, pork gelatine, gelling agent (gum arabic), maize starch, fruit, juice (apple, blackcurrant, cherry, raspberry, strawbery, orange, apricot, pineapple, passion fruit, lemon, grapefruit, banana, peach, grape, pear), acids (lactic acid), malic acid, citric acid, colours (curcumin), anthocyanins, natural flavourings, fruit, plant, vegetable concentrates (safflower, spirulina, radish, carrot, blackcurrant)

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E163 Anthocyanins , E270 Lactic acid , E296 Malic acid , E330 Citric acid , E414 Acacia gum , E428 Gelatine

As written on the pack

sugar, glucose syrup, water, pork gelatine, gelling agent: gum arabic, maize starch, fruit,juice from concentrate (apple, blackcurrant, cherry, raspberry, strawbery, orange, apricot, pineapple, passion fruit, lemon, grapefruit, banana, peach, grape, pear), acids: lactic acid, malic acid, citric acid, colours: curcumin, anthocyanins, natural flavourings, fruit, plant and vegetable concentrates (safflower, spirulina, radish, carrot, blackcurrant),

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.

  • E100 Curcumin Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E163 Anthocyanins Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E414 Acacia gum Gum arabic (acacia gum) is the hardened sap of acacia trees, used to stabilise flavour emulsions in soft drinks and to coat sweets.
  • E428 Gelatine Gelatine is a gelling agent made from collagen in animal skin and bones.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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  • Gelling agent Gelling agents such as pectin, gelatine or carrageenan set liquids into gels and stabilise textures.

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.
  • Glucose syrup 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.

  • Candies Products in the category "Candies" are at least group 3.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 119 gummi candies

From least to most processed, this one ranks 87th. 99% of the gummi candies here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 119 gummi candies, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20714406, last edited 2 April 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.