Is The Natural Confectionery Co. sour SQUIRMS ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 22 ingredients
- 3 additives
- Nutri-Score D
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Cane Sugar (processing marker), Glucose Syrup (ultra-processing marker) (From Wheat, corn), Thickener (ultra-processing marker) (Acid (Modified Wheat Starch (ultra-processing marker))), Water, Food Acids (Citric, Fumaric, Tartaric), Gelatine (ultra-processing marker), Fruit Juice Concentrate (ultra-processing marker), Natural Flavours (ultra-processing marker), Natural Food Colours (Anthocyanins (ultra-processing marker), Grape Skin Extract, Black Carrot (ultra-processing marker), Spirulina, Turmeric, Paprika Oleoresin (ultra-processing marker))
Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E163 Anthocyanins , E428 Gelatine
As written on the pack
Cane Sugar, Glucose Syrup (From Wheat and corn), Thickener (Acid Modified Wheat Starch), Water, Food Acids (Citric, Fumaric, Tartaric), Gelatine, Fruit Juice Concentrate, Natural Flavours, Natural Food Colours (Anthocyanins, Grape Skin Extract, Black Carrot, Spirulina, Turmeric, Paprika Oleoresin)
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.
- E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
- 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.
- E428 Gelatine Gelatine is a gelling agent made from collagen in animal skin and bones.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
- Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
- 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.
- Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
- Fruit juice concentrate An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
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 16 acid gummy candies
From least to most processed, this one ranks 14th. 100% of the acid gummy candies here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 9310434005832, last edited 4 June 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.