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Candy and gummies: what's actually in it?

Non-chocolate candy is not one product. Gummies / jelly sweets are set with gelatine (or, in some cases, pectin) and flavoured with fruit juice from concentrate. Hard candy is mostly glucose syrup and sugar, boiled and flavoured — Fox's Glacier Mints have only three ingredients. Chewy dragees (Mentos) are a crisp shell around a chewy centre, built on sugar, glucose syrup and coconut oil. Milk candy (White Rabbit) starts with maltose and milk powder instead. And sugar-free versions do not remove sweetness — they replace sugar and glucose syrup with sugar alcohols such as isomalt, plus sweeteners such as steviol glycosides or aspartame.

This page covers non-chocolate candy only: hard candy, gummies, jelly sweets, mints and lollipops sold in Singapore. Chocolate bars are a separate page in this batch, and chocolate-coated sweets (for example M&M's) are not panelled here. Throat lozenges sold as medicine (for example Strepsils) are excluded. Ricola herb drops are panelled as a sugar-free hard-candy row because they are sold on the candy shelf in Singapore, with a flag that they are also sold as cough/throat drops in some markets — check the pack's own classification before treating them as ordinary sweets.

Source-strength flags matter more on this page than on most. Only two rows below come from a Singapore retailer's own ingredient section (FairPrice). The rest come from the brand's own site, a Singapore distributor, a Singapore specialist retailer, or Open Food Facts (secondary, flagged). Haribo, Skittles, Fox's and Ricola formulations differ by country of manufacture — the UK, US and Turkish/Halal versions of the same named product are different lists, and none of them is presented here as the Singapore pack list unless the source says so. A Singapore pack photo is the step that would settle each of those rows.

The headline, in 30 seconds

Two rows are from a Singapore FairPrice ingredient section: Mentos Mini Chewy Dragees — Rainbow, and The Natural Confectionery Co. (TNCC) Sour Patch Sweets — Kids. Those are the strongest SG evidence on this page.
Most gummies start with glucose syrup, then sugar, then gelatine. Haribo Goldbears (UK/Australia brand list) is glucose syrup; sugar; gelatine; dextrose; fruit juice from concentrate. The Turkish/Halal Goldbears sold in Singapore through Shopee sellers use beef gelatine (Halal) and palm oil instead of sunflower oil — a different list for the same name.
Skittles contain no gelatine — but the UK and US lists are different products. UK Original: sugar, glucose syrup, palm fat, citric and malic acids, dextrin, maltodextrin, flavourings, modified starch and plant-derived colours (E162, E163, E170, E160a, E100, E132, E133). US Original: sugar, corn syrup, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, and synthetic dyes including Red 40, Yellow 5 and Blue 1.
"Sour Patch Kids" is two different products under one name. The FairPrice TNCC Sour Patch Sweets — Kids list is sugar, glucose syrup (from wheat and corn), invert sugar, thickener (acid modified wheat starch), food acids and natural colours — no gelatine, contains wheat. The US Sour Patch Kids Original list is sugar, invert sugar, corn syrup, modified corn starch and synthetic colours (Yellow 6, Red 40, Yellow 5, Blue 1).
White Rabbit is a milk candy, not a fruit candy. Maltose first, then white granulated sugar, whole milk powder, butter, gelatine and vanillin, wrapped in edible glutinous rice paper. It contains milk; the gelatine is beef gelatine in the Shopee SG listing.
Fox's Glacier Mints are the shortest list on the page: glucose syrup (sulphites), sugar, natural flavouring (0.1% mint oil). Three ingredients.
Sugar-free does not mean unsweetened. Ricola Sugar-Free Original drops are sweetener (isomalt), herb extract, colour (plain caramel), menthol, peppermint oil, mint oil and sweetener (steviol glycosides from stevia) — no sugar, no glucose syrup, but two sweeteners and menthol.

At a glance

Product	Section	First ingredient	Gelatine?	Added sugar?	Pack size (as printed)	Country of manufacture (as printed)
Haribo Goldbears	Gummies	Glucose syrup	Yes — gelatine	Yes — sugar, dextrose	not stated	Germany (OFF AU entry for same list; see notes)
Haribo Goldbears Sour	Gummies	Glucose syrup	Yes — gelatine	Yes — sugar, dextrose	not stated	not stated
Mentos Mini Chewy Dragees — Rainbow	Chewy dragees	Sugar	No gelatine listed	Yes — sugar, glucose syrup	120g	not stated
Mentos Chewy Dragees — Fruit	Chewy dragees	Sugar	No gelatine listed	Yes — sugar, glucose syrup	not stated	not stated
Skittles Original (UK list)	Hard / chewy sweets	Sugar	No	Yes — sugar, glucose syrup	125g (UK treat bag)	not stated
Skittles Chewies (UK list)	Hard / chewy sweets	Sugar	No	Yes — sugar, glucose syrup	not stated	not stated
TNCC Sour Patch Sweets — Kids	Gummies / sour sweets	Sugar	No gelatine listed	Yes — sugar, glucose syrup, invert sugar	220g	not stated
Sour Patch Kids Original (US list)	Gummies / sour sweets	Sugar	No gelatine listed	Yes — sugar, invert sugar, corn syrup	1.8 lb	not stated
White Rabbit Creamy Candy (Original)	Milk candy	Maltose	Yes — gelatine (beef, per Shopee SG)	Yes — maltose, sugar	150g	not stated
Fox's Glacier Mints	Hard candy / mints	Glucose syrup	No	Yes — glucose syrup, sugar	200g (retail bag; 250g jar also sold — see notes)	United Kingdom
Ricola Sugar-Free Original Drops	Hard candy / mints — sugar-free	Sweetener (isomalt)	No	No — isomalt + steviol glycosides	45g	not stated

Panelled with verbatim lists: 11 products. Two from a Singapore FairPrice ingredient section (Mentos Mini Rainbow; TNCC Sour Patch Sweets — Kids); one from the Singapore authorised distributor (White Rabbit); the rest from brand sites, a Singapore specialist retailer, or Open Food Facts, all flagged by source below. Seen-but-not-verified: see the list below. No lollipop row is panelled — none had a verifiable list in this pass.

Prices are deliberately not shown here: they change weekly and would go stale. This site compares ingredients only.

Gummies and jelly sweets

Haribo Goldbears

Pack size: not stated · Made in: Germany (OFF AU entry for same list; see notes) (as printed)

Ingredients (Haribo UK / Australia brand site): Glucose syrup; sugar; gelatine; dextrose; fruit juice from concentrate: apple, raspberry, strawberry, orange, lemon, pineapple; acid: citric acid; sunflower oil; fruit and plant concentrates: safflower, spirulina, apple, elderberry, orange, blackcurrant, kiwi, lemon, aronia, mango, grape, passion fruit; flavouring; elderberry extract; glazing agent: beeswax. May contain: milk, wheat.

The original gummy bear. Glucose syrup first, then sugar and gelatine, with fruit juice from concentrate and plant concentrates for colour. Flag — country versions differ: this is the Haribo UK/Australia list. The US list (Haribo US, Goldbears Tropical) is glucose syrup (from wheat or corn), sugar, gelatin, dextrose, citric acid, artificial and natural flavors, palm oil, palm kernel oil, carnauba wax, white beeswax, yellow beeswax, Yellow 5, Red 40, Blue 1 — synthetic colours and palm oils, not plant concentrates. The Turkish/Halal Goldbears sold in Singapore through Shopee sellers list beef gelatine-Halal, palm oil and carnauba wax, with fruit and plant concentrates including maracuja and red grape. Do not treat any one of these as the Singapore pack list — the SG pack's country of manufacture decides which one applies. Gummy Gelatine May contain: milk, wheat

Haribo Goldbears Sour

Pack size: not stated · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (Haribo UK brand site): Glucose syrup; sugar; gelatine; dextrose; acids: citric acid, malic acid; fruit juice from concentrate: pineapple, apple, strawberry, raspberry, orange, lemon; fruit and plant concentrates: elderberry, aronia, grape, blackcurrant, orange, lemon, mango, passion fruit, apple, kiwi, spirulina, safflower; flavouring; acidity regulator: sodium malate; elderberry extract.

Same Goldbears base, made sour: malic acid joins citric acid, and sodium malate is added as an acidity regulator. No glazing agent is listed in this UK Sour entry, unlike the Original. Flag: UK brand list; SG pack not transcribed. Gummy Sour Gelatine

The Natural Confectionery Co. (TNCC) Sour Patch Sweets — Kids

Pack size: 220g · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Sugar, Glucose syrup (from Wheat and Corn), Invert Sugar, Thickener (Acid modified wheat starch), Food Acids (Fumaric, Tartaric, Citric), Natural flavours, Natural food colours (Grape skin extract, Anthocyanin, Spirulina, Paprika oleoresin, Turmeric). Allergen statement: Contains Wheat.

The strongest SG row in the sour section: a FairPrice ingredient section, for the product FairPrice lists as "TNCC Sour Patch Sweets — Kids". Note the brand — this is The Natural Confectionery Co., not the US Mondelēz "Sour Patch Kids" below, even though the names are near-identical on a shelf. Three sugars (sugar, glucose syrup, invert sugar), a wheat-starch thickener, three food acids, and natural colours only. No gelatine is listed. Sour sweet Contains: wheat Natural colours only FairPrice SG ingredient section

Sour Patch Kids Original — US list

Pack size: 1.8 lb · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (US label, via Desertcart Singapore / EWG LabelINSIGHT): Sugar, Invert Sugar, Corn Syrup, Modified Corn Starch, Contains Less than 2% of Tartaric Acid, Citric Acid, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Yellow 6, Red 40, Yellow 5, Blue 1.

The US original, sold in Singapore through import/specialist channels (Desertcart SG lists the 1.8 lb family bag). Compare with the TNCC row above: invert sugar is second here (third there), corn syrup replaces glucose syrup, and the colours are four synthetic dyes rather than natural extracts. Same "sour then sweet" idea, different formulation. Flag: US label; the SG-imported bag's list needs a pack check, and it must not be mixed up with the TNCC FairPrice product. Sour sweet Synthetic colours: Yellow 6, Red 40, Yellow 5, Blue 1 US list only

Hard candy and chewy sweets

Skittles Original — UK list

Pack size: 125g (UK treat bag) · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (UK list): Sugar, glucose syrup, palm fat, citric acid, malic acid, dextrin, maltodextrin, flavourings, modified starch, E162, E163, E170, E160a, E100, E132, E133, trisodium citrate & carnauba wax.

No gelatine — Skittles are gelatine-free in the UK and US, which is the main structural difference from Haribo. Sugar and glucose syrup are the first two ingredients; the colours are plant/mineral-derived E-numbers (beetroot red E162, anthocyanins E163, calcium carbonate E170, carotenes E160a, curcumin E100, indigotine E132, brilliant blue E133). Flag: UK list. The US list is sugar, corn syrup, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, citric acid, tapioca dextrin, modified corn starch, natural and artificial flavors, Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 1 and Blue 2 (in lake forms), sodium citrate and carnauba wax — hydrogenated palm kernel oil instead of palm fat, and synthetic dyes instead of E-numbers. Neither is verified as the SG pack list. No gelatine UK list only

Skittles Chewies — UK list

Pack size: not stated · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (UK list): Sugar, glucose syrup, palm fat, acids malic acid, citric acid, dextrin, modified starch, maltodextrin, flavourings, emulsifier lecithin, colours E162, E163, E160a, E141, E153, concentrates (radish, carthamus, sweet potato).

Chewies are Original Skittles without the hard candy shell — same sugar/glucose-syrup/palm-fat base, plus lecithin as an emulsifier, and a different colour set (chlorophyll E141 and vegetable carbon E153 appear; E170, E100, E132 and E133 do not). Panelled as a separate row because the list differs, not because the flavour does. Flag: UK list; SG pack not transcribed. No gelatine No hard shell UK list only

Fox's Glacier Mints

Pack size: 200g (retail bag; 250g jar also sold — see notes) · Made in: United Kingdom (as printed)

Ingredients (UK retailer lists, agreeing — Tesco / Spoonful): Glucose Syrup (Sulphites), Sugar, Natural Flavouring (0.1% Mint Oil).

The shortest list on the page: three ingredients. Glucose syrup first, sugar second, and 0.1% mint oil as the only flavouring. No artificial colours or flavourings are claimed. Sulphites are declared as part of the glucose syrup — the allergen to note. Flag: UK retailer lists (Tesco IE, Spoonful transcription); no SG retailer ingredient section was retrieved, so the SG pack (imported stock) still needs a photo. Hard candy / mint Contains: sulphites UK list only

Chewy dragees

Mentos Mini Chewy Dragees — Rainbow

Pack size: 120g · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (Coconut), Acid (Citric Acid, Rice Starch, Thickeners (Gum, Arabic, Gellan Gum), Flavourings, Glazing Agent (Carnauba Wax), Emulsifier (Sucrose Esters of Fatty Acids), Colours (Carmines, Carotenes, Anthocyanins, Curcumin, Beet Red).

FairPrice's own ingredient section — the strongest SG evidence on this page alongside the TNCC row. Sugar first, glucose syrup second, hydrogenated coconut oil third; the chew comes from rice starch and the thickeners (gum arabic, gellan gum), and the rainbow colours are carmines, carotenes, anthocyanins, curcumin and beet red. Note the FairPrice transcription's punctuation is reproduced as found (the acid/thickener parenthesis does not close cleanly in the source) — the pack should be checked for the exact bracketing. No gelatine is listed. Chewy dragee FairPrice SG ingredient section

Mentos Chewy Dragees — Fruit

Pack size: not stated · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (Open Food Facts, secondary): Sugar, glucose syrup, fruit juices from concentrate (strawberry, apple, blackcurrant, orange, lemon) (2%), coconut oil, acid (citric acid), starch, cocoa butter, maltodextrin, flavourings, thickeners (gellan gum, cellulose gum, gum arabic), emulsifier (sucrose esters of fatty acids), glazing agent (carnauba wax), colours (anthocyanins, curcumin, beta-carotene, beetroot red).

The full-size Fruit roll, as distinct from the Mini Rainbow above: real fruit juice from concentrate at 2% (strawberry, apple, blackcurrant, orange, lemon), cocoa butter and maltodextrin that the Mini list does not show, and cellulose gum among the thickeners. Coconut oil here is not described as hydrogenated, unlike the Mini Rainbow's hydrogenated coconut oil — a real difference between the two lists, not a transcription choice. Flag: Open Food Facts is a community database (secondary); no SG retailer ingredient section was retrieved for this exact Fruit big-pack, so the SG roll needs a pack check. Chewy dragee Fruit juice 2% Open Food Facts — secondary

Milk candy

White Rabbit Creamy Candy (Original)

Pack size: 150g · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (Hao Food Sg — authorised Singapore distributor FAQ, corroborated by Shopee SG): Maltose, White granulated sugar, Whole milk powder, Butter, Food additives (gelatin), Vanillin, Edible glutinous rice paper (Edible starch, water, Glyceryl mono- and distearate).

A milk candy, not a fruit candy: maltose first, then sugar, whole milk powder and butter. The edible rice paper wrapping is itself an ingredient (edible starch, water, glyceryl mono- and distearate) and is meant to be eaten with the candy. The Shopee SG listing names the gelatine as beef gelatine and gives the same list as liquid maltose, white granulated sugar, whole milk powder, butter, food additives (gelatin, vanillin), edible glutinous rice paper. Contains milk. Flag: the distributor FAQ and Shopee SG agree on the list, but neither is a FairPrice-style SG retailer ingredient section, and flavoured variants (red bean, tiramisu, coffee and others) have different lists and are not panelled here. Milk candy Contains: milk Gelatine (beef, per Shopee SG)

Hard candy / mints — sugar-free

Ricola Sugar-Free Original Drops

Pack size: 45g · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (UK retailer list — Peak Pharmacy): Sweetener (isomalt), extract (1%) of Ricola's herb mixture, colour (plain caramel), menthol, peppermint oil, mint oil, sweetener (steviol glycosides from stevia).

The only sugar-free row panelled. No sugar, no glucose syrup: the bulk sweetener is isomalt, with steviol glycosides as a second sweetener, 1% herb-mixture extract, plain caramel colour, menthol and peppermint/mint oils. The US sugar-free listing differs in detail (aspartame and sorbitol appear, with menthol 4.8 mg per drop as the active ingredient) — do not mix the two. Flag: UK retailer list; SG pack not transcribed. Ricola is also sold as a cough/throat drop in some markets, so it sits in this section with that classification flag, not as an ordinary sweet. Excessive consumption of isomalt/sorbitol products may have a laxative effect (label warning on the Indian listing). Sugar-free Sweeteners: isomalt, steviol glycosides UK list only

Lollipops — no panelled row

No lollipop had a verifiable ingredient list in this pass. Lollipops are sold in Singapore (including Chupa Chups and assorted import lollipops at Donki, Mustafa and Shopee SG), but no FairPrice ingredient section, brand SG list or usable Open Food Facts transcription was retrieved for any of them in the time available, so this section is empty rather than guessed. It is a named gap for the next pass, not an absence of lollipops from Singapore shelves.

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

Yupi gummies — sold in Singapore (Shopee SG, supermarkets, import grocers), but no verbatim ingredient list was retrieved in this pass. Needs a pack check; do not borrow the Indonesian list as the SG pack list.
Haw Haw Milk Candy — a Filipino milk candy sold in Singapore through Filipino grocers and Shopee SG sellers. The only lists retrieved are Philippines Shopee listings: sugar, whey powder, buttermilk powder, glucose, magnesium stearate as anticaking agent and artificial milk flavor (a second listing gives refined sugar, buttermilk powder, whey powder, condensed milk flavor, magnesium stearate). Those are PH-market lists, not SG-pack evidence, so Haw Haw is not panelled. Needs an SG-bought pack photo.
Haribo Goldbears — Turkish/Halal version — sold in Singapore through Shopee SG sellers: glucose syrup, sugar, beef gelatine-Halal, dextrose, fruit juice concentrates (apple, strawberry, raspberry, orange, lemon, pineapple), acidity regulator (citric acid), fruit and plant concentrates (safflower, spirulina, apple, elderberry, orange, blackcurrant, kiwi, lemon, aronia, mango, maracuja, red grape), flavourings, palm oil, glazing agents (carnauba wax, beeswax), elderberry extract. Traces: gluten, milk. This is a reseller description on Shopee SG, not a retailer ingredient section, so it stays here until an SG-bought pack is transcribed. It is not the same list as the UK Goldbears panelled above (sunflower oil vs palm oil; pork vs beef gelatine).
Haribo Goldbears Tropical (US list) — glucose syrup (from wheat or corn), sugar, gelatin, dextrose (from wheat or corn), contains less than 2% of: citric acid, artificial and natural flavors, palm oil, palm kernel oil, carnauba wax, white beeswax, yellow beeswax, Yellow 5, Red 40, Blue 1; may contain wheat, traces of milk. US brand list only; SG sale of this exact variant not verified.
Skittles Squishy Cloudz — UK list retrieved only in truncated form (glucose syrup, sugar, water, gelatine/pectins …) via Open Food Facts, so it is not panelled on a partial list. Note it does contain a gelling agent, unlike Original/Chewies — verify the full list before paneling.
Skittles Original — US list — sugar, corn syrup, hydrogenated palm kernel oil; less than 2% of: citric acid, tapioca dextrin, modified corn starch, natural and artificial flavors, colors (Red 40 Lake, Yellow 5 Lake, Blue 2 Lake, Yellow 6 Lake, Blue 1 Lake, Yellow 6, Red 40, Yellow 5, Blue 1), sodium citrate, carnauba wax. Not panelled as a separate row because the UK row already represents Original; the US list is recorded here so the difference is visible. If the SG-imported bag is the US version, it needs its own row.
Mentos — Mint, Grape, Sour Mix, Rainbow (full-size rolls), Fanta Orange — sold in Singapore (Shopee SG rolls and cartons), but no SG retailer ingredient section was retrieved for any full-size roll in this pass. The Mini Rainbow (FairPrice) and Fruit big-pack (Open Food Facts) are panelled; the other flavours are not assumed to share those lists. The Fanta Orange list from a secondary source (sugar, glucose syrup, orange juice from concentrate 2%, coconut oil, acid, starch, flavouring, maltodextrin, cocoa butter, thickeners, emulsifier, glazing agent, colour beta-carotene) is not panelled without an SG source.
White Rabbit flavoured variants — red bean, tiramisu, coffee, chocolate, coconut, lychee, strawberry, mango, durian, matcha, yogurt and others. The red-bean list (maltose, white granulated sugar, whole milk powder 14%, butter (milk), red bean powder 2%, gelatine (beef), flavouring, colour E102, E129, edible starch paper) is from a secondary source and is not panelled; each flavour needs its own SG pack check.
Ricola Original Herb (with sugar) and Ricola Sugar-Free Lemon Mint — the with-sugar original is described in secondary sources as sucrose, glucose syrup and 13 herbs, but no verbatim list was retrieved; the sugar-free lemon-mint US list (menthol 1.1 mg per drop; inactive: ascorbic acid, aspartame, citric acid, extract of lemon balm and Ricola's herb mixture, isomalt, natural color beta-carotene, natural flavors lemon oil and peppermint oil) is a US drug-facts list, not a candy ingredient list, and is not panelled.
Strepsils and other throat lozenges — excluded by scope: medicine, not candy.
M&M's and other chocolate-coated sweets — excluded by scope: chocolate, covered on the chocolate-bars page, not here.
Giant, Sheng Siong, Cold Storage, Don Don Donki, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot, Little Farms, RedMart and Lazada candy ranges — not inventoried with verified lists in this pass (see Sources and method). Their shelves are a named gap, not a claim that they stock nothing in this category. In-store pack photography is the step that closes this.
Chupa Chups and other lollipops; Haribo Happy Cola / Chamallows; Sour Patch Kids Berry, Watermelon and Glow Ups variants — seen on SG channels (Shopee SG, The Candy Store SG) but no verbatim SG list retrieved in this pass. Glow Ups (US list via The Candy Store SG: sugar, invert sugar, corn syrup, modified corn starch; less than 2% tartaric acid, citric acid, edible confetti, natural and artificial flavour, Red 40) is a specialist-retailer description, not panelled without a pack check.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

All figures in the table are as sold, per 100 g, unless a row is explicitly flagged as per-serving. Sugars here are total sugars as printed, not added sugars, unless the source states added sugars separately. No official Singapore Nutri-Grade (A–D) was found printed on any of these candy listings in this pass, so none is quoted here; no grade has been assigned.

Salt and sodium: salt = sodium × 2.5. The table shows sodium as printed (in mg) with the salt equivalent in brackets. Where the source prints salt instead of sodium (Fox's), the salt figure is shown and the sodium equivalent (salt ÷ 2.5) is given in brackets. Sodium is not presented as salt, and salt is not presented as sodium.

Total vs added sugars: Singapore packs list total sugars, not added sugars. A total-sugars figure is never labelled here as "added sugar". The ingredient list remains the evidence for added sugar (sugar, glucose syrup, maltose, invert sugar, corn syrup) versus naturally occurring sugars.

Open Food Facts is a community database and is flagged as secondary where used: the pack and the retailer nutrition section take precedence if they disagree. Figures marked "not stated" were not in the source retrieved; they are not estimated, borrowed from another variant, or copied across flavours.

Product	Basis	Energy	Protein	Total fat	Saturated fat	Carbohydrate	Sugars	Sodium (salt equiv.)
Fox's Glacier Mints	Per 100 g, as sold (UK retailer)	385 kcal (1,634 kJ)	0 g	0 g	0 g	96.1 g	72.3 g	32 mg (salt 0.08 g, as printed)
Skittles Original	Per 100 g, as sold (Open Food Facts, secondary — partial)	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated	74 g	not stated
Ricola Sugar-Free Original Drops	Per 100 g, as sold (retailer listing — partial)	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated	0 g	not stated
White Rabbit Creamy Candy	Per serving (22 g), as printed on Shopee SG — NOT per 100 g, not converted	89.1 kcal	not stated	1.9 g	0.97 g	not stated	not stated	11.1 mg (salt 0.03 g)

Observed numbers, no verdict: Fox's Glacier Mints list 72.3 g sugars per 100 g and 96.1 g carbohydrate per 100 g, with 0 g fat and 0 g protein. Skittles Original lists 74 g sugars per 100 g (Open Food Facts, secondary). Ricola Sugar-Free Original lists 0 g sugars per 100 g. White Rabbit is quoted per 22 g serving only (89.1 kcal, 1.9 g total fat, 0.97 g saturated fat, 11.1 mg sodium) — that serving figure is not converted to per 100 g. No per-100 g nutrition panel was verified in this pass for any Haribo, Mentos, TNCC Sour Patch, US Sour Patch Kids or Skittles Chewies row, so this section does not compare their sugars.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): no per-100 g nutrition panel was verified in this pass for Haribo Goldbears, Haribo Goldbears Sour, Mentos Mini Chewy Dragees — Rainbow, Mentos Chewy Dragees — Fruit, Skittles Chewies, TNCC Sour Patch Sweets — Kids, Sour Patch Kids Original (US), and all products in the seen-but-not-verified list above. Their ingredient panels are unchanged; their nutrition figures are not estimated here, and the Fox's, Skittles Original and Ricola figures above are not copied onto other flavours or variants.

How to read a candy label — the jargon, in plain English

Glucose syrup / corn syrup / invert sugar / maltose: Different sweet syrups. Glucose syrup and corn syrup are liquid sugars that stop candy crystallising; invert sugar is sugar split into glucose and fructose; maltose is a sugar from starch, and it is the first ingredient in White Rabbit. All of them count as added sugar.
Gelatine: The protein that sets gummies. It is animal-derived (pork in most Haribo; beef in the Halal/Turkish Goldbears and in White Rabbit). Skittles and Mentos list no gelatine — Skittles use starches and palm fat for their chew instead.
Dragee: A sweet with a hard shell around a chewy centre — the Mentos format. The shell is sugar/glucose syrup; the chew comes from starches and gums (gum arabic, gellan gum, cellulose gum).
Glazing agent (beeswax, carnauba wax): A thin wax coating that stops sweets sticking together and gives them shine. It is the last ingredient in Haribo and Mentos lists.
Isomalt / sorbitol / steviol glycosides / aspartame: Sweeteners used instead of sugar in sugar-free candy. Isomalt and sorbitol are sugar alcohols (bulk sweeteners); steviol glycosides come from stevia; aspartame is an intense sweetener. "Sugar-free" means no sugar was used — it does not mean unsweetened, and sugar alcohols can have a laxative effect in large amounts.
E-numbers vs named colours: UK/EU lists often give colours as E-numbers (E162 beetroot red, E163 anthocyanins, E100 curcumin, E133 brilliant blue). US lists name the dyes (Red 40, Yellow 5, Blue 1). The same colour can appear under either system — check which system your pack uses before comparing two lists.
"May contain" / "traces": A factory warning, not an ingredient: the product is made where milk, wheat, nuts or gluten may be present in trace amounts. Haribo Goldbears list "may contain: milk, wheat"; the Halal Goldbears list traces of gluten and milk.

What this page is not

Not a health score, and not a "best" pick. Gummies, hard candy, chewy dragees, milk candy and sugar-free drops are different products, and this page does not rank them.
Not a taste test, and not a price comparison. Prices change weekly; ingredients change less often, but still change.
Not complete. Only two rows come from a Singapore retailer's ingredient section; the rest rest on brand, distributor, specialist-retailer or secondary sources, all flagged. Giant, Sheng Siong, Cold Storage, Donki, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot, RedMart, Lazada and Little Farms were not inventoried with verified lists in this pass, no lollipop is panelled, and Yupi, Haw Haw, Haribo Happy Cola and the full Mentos flavour range remain unverified for the reasons in seen-but-not-verified.

Sources and method

Checked 5–6 November 2026 from: FairPrice ingredient sections (Mentos Mini Chewy Dragees — Rainbow; TNCC Sour Patch Sweets — Kids); Haribo UK/Australia/US brand sites (Goldbears, Goldbears Sour, Goldbears Tropical); Hao Food Sg authorised-distributor FAQ and Shopee SG (White Rabbit); Open Food Facts (Mentos Fruit big-pack; Haribo Goldbears Turkish/Halal entry; Skittles Original; Sour Patch Kids entries); UK retailer lists (Skittles Original/Chewies via a UK ingredients summary; Fox's Glacier Mints via Tesco IE and Spoonful; Ricola Sugar-Free Original via Peak Pharmacy; Ricola Sugar-Free via BigBasket India for the per-100 g sugars figure); Desertcart Singapore and EWG LabelINSIGHT (US Sour Patch Kids Original); The Candy Store Singapore (Sour Patch Kids Glow Ups — seen-not-verified only); Shopee Philippines (Haw Haw — PH lists only, not panelled). Full per-fact source list is in the accompanying research notes. Limitation of this pass: web search was rate-limited (429) during this build, so inventory was search-led rather than full category-page pagination, and several channels (Giant, Sheng Siong, Cold Storage, Donki, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot, RedMart, Lazada, Little Farms) were not checked with verified lists. That is stated here rather than hidden, and those channels are the first step for the next pass, with Singapore pack photography for the Haribo, Skittles, Fox's, Ricola, Yupi and Haw Haw rows. Nutrition section added 5–6 November 2026: figures are standardised to per 100 g where the source gives per-100 figures; per-serving-only figures are labelled as such and are not converted; sugars are total sugars as printed, not added sugars, unless the source states added sugars; salt = sodium × 2.5. Where a full pack list could not be verified, the product is in seen-but-not-verified instead of being panelled.