Food · Haribo
Haribo Goldbears
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Low nutrition · Ultra-processed · per 100 g
Ultra-processed — built with extras a kitchen wouldn’t use. Better as a rare treat, not a Good rating.
Worse than 9 in 10 packs in Snacks. The swap is on this aisle.
A 28 g handful is about 97 calories and 0 g of salt — before you finish the bag.
Council note
Ultra-processed — flavours, extras, a list a kitchen would not write. The colour (Tartrazine) is cosmetic, not food. A dietitian would not make this a weekday habit. Worse than 9 in 10 packs in Snacks. The swap is on this aisle.
Watch-outs
Artificial colours
Tartrazine, Sunset yellow FCF, Allura red AC, Quinoline yellow
The pack
Haribo is sugar stuck together with gelatine and coloured with a handful of dyes. Fun at a birthday. A poor everyday nibble, especially for children who react to bright colours.
How often
Rarely
Who it’s for
Parties, on purpose.
Skip if
Children sensitive to dyes, vegetarians (gelatine), or anyone treating sweets as a snack.
Pack
160 g
Origin
Germany / worldwide
A serving
A few bears. The bag is designed to empty itself.
- Very high sugar
- Several synthetic dyes
- Gelatine
At a glance
How often
Rarely
Nutrition box
Low
How processed
Ultra-processed
Extras
6 additives
Planet
Mixed footprint · 52/100
Organic
Not organic
Built in a factory with additives, flavours, or refined extras. Cannot be rated Good — a rare treat, not a habit.
Some good signs, some industrial ones. Not the heaviest in the aisle.
No shelf price logged yet. When a shopper posts a receipt to Open Prices, it lands here.
Why this number
Ultra-processed — built with extras a kitchen wouldn’t use. Better as a rare treat, not a Good rating.
Poor · 30/100 · nutrition low
- Nutrition quality39/100
- Ingredients28/100
- How processed16/100
- Organic0/100
What pulled it down
This nutrition box cannot be rated Excellent
This is a treat pattern. It can only scrape into low Good if the list is clean and it is not ultra-processed.
Ultra-processed food cannot be rated Good
A factory recipe — flavours, colours, or many additives — cannot be rated Good. A sometimes treat, not a daily habit.
A cluster of extras blocks Excellent or Good
A cluster of extras keeps this at Poor: a sometimes product, not a habit.
A weak-ish nutrition box
About 14 teaspoons of sugar in 100 g. A treat pattern.
Ultra-processed
Built in a factory with additives, flavours, or refined extras. A growing pile of research ties a diet of these to poorer health — not because one biscuit is poison, but because the pattern crowds out real food.
Tartrazine
-14Azo dye linked to hyperactivity in sensitive children. EFSA ADI 7.5 mg/kg.
Sunset yellow FCF
-14Azo dye associated with hypersensitivity and hyperactivity.
Allura red AC
-14Widely used azo dye. Hyperactivity concern in children.
Quinoline yellow
-14Synthetic dye. Southampton six colour; restricted in some markets.
Azo dye mix
-84 synthetic colours (the Southampton six family) sit on this pack. Linked to hyperactivity in sensitive children.
A long list of extras
-84 additives sit on this pack. One extra is a recipe. Four is a factory pattern.
Nutrition is half the number. Ingredients a quarter. How processed a fifth. Organic is a small bonus — it cannot rescue a sugary drink or a nitrite ham. How this compares to Nutri-Score
Nutrition · per 100 g
| Energy | 1456 kJ |
|---|---|
| Sugars | 56 gHigh Very sweet — about 14 teaspoons of sugar in 100 g. |
| Saturated fat | 0.1 gLow |
| Salt | 0.07 gLow Light on salt. |
| Fibre | 0 g |
| Protein | 6.9 g |
| Fruit, veg, nuts | 2 % |
Better neighbours
Same aisle, cleaner number. Ranked by how close the job is — not by who paid.
Ingredients
Glucose syrup, sugar, gelatine, dextrose, fruit juice from concentrate, acid (E330), flavouring, fruit and plant concentrates, colours (E100, E120, E141), glazing agents, citric acid.
TartrazineE102
−14Linked to restlessness in some children. You don’t need yellow food to be yellow.
Extra care for children
Sunset yellow FCFE110
−14Another dye tied to children’s behaviour in some studies.
Extra care for children
Allura red ACE129
−14Widely used, often flagged for children. You can live without red cereal.
Extra care for children
Quinoline yellowE104
−14Restricted in some countries. A look, not a nutrient.
Extra care for children
Sugar
Low concernNot a toxin. A teaspoon is a teaspoon. The issue is how many hide in drinks and breakfast.
Citric acidE330
No concernNo health concern at usual levels.
GlycerolE422
No concernLow concern in food. Also used in creams.
GelatineE428
No concernNot vegetarian. Otherwise a food, not a dye.
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