Candy Roundup
We analyzed 398 products to help you choose the healthiest & safest options.
Detailed Reviews (Page 9)

Caramel Nougat
Ingredients: Org. Raw Cashews, Org. Brown Rice Syrup, Org. Raw Cacao Butter, Org. Raw Blue Agave, Org. Peanut Butter (Organic Peanuts), Org. Shredded Coconut, Org. Raw Vanilla Beans & Pink Himalayan Salt. Chocolate Coverture: Org. Cacao Paste, Org. Cacao Butter and Org. Cane Sugar
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Contains Peanut
- ● High Sugar Content

Cherry Laffy Taffy Candy
Ingredients: CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, PALM OIL, MALIC ACID, MONO - AND DIGLYCERIDES, HYDROGENATED COTTONSEED OIL, SALT, NATURAL FLAVOR, SOY LECITHIN, RED 40
The Good
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Contains Red 40 (Allura Red)

special dark chocolate candy
Ingredients: maltitol, chocolate, cocoa butter, cocoa processed with alkali, polydextrose, milk fat, lecithin (soy), vanillin (artificial flavor)
The Good
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

The original cinnamon flavored candy
Ingredients: Sugar, corn syrup, acacia (gum arabic), artificial flavor, confectioner's glaze (shellac), carnauba wax, white mineral oil, red 40, cornstarch, sunflower lecithin.
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Contains Red 40 (Allura Red)
- ● High Sugar Content

Cotton candy flavored soda
Ingredients: Carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup, potassium benzoate (as preservative), artificial flavor, citric acid, sucralose, fd&c blue 1.
The Good
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Contains High Fructose Corn Syrup

Cotton candy frosted sugar cookies
Ingredients: Sugar, bleached enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin folic acid), margarine (palm oil, water, soybean oil, salt, contains 2% or less of: mono-and diglycerides, calcium disodium edta [preservative], artificial
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● High Sugar Content

Autumn Mix Mellowcreme Candy
Ingredients: SUGAR, CORN SYRUP, CONFECTIONER'S GLAZE (SHELLAC), SALT, COCOA POWDER, HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL, GELATIN, DEXTROSE, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, HONEY, YELLOW 6, SESAME OIL, RED 3, YELLOW 5, RED 40, SOY LECITHIN (AN EMULSIFIER), BLUE 1.
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Contains Red 40 (Allura Red)
- ● High Sugar Content

Sour Gummi Candy Trees
Ingredients: Corn syrup, sugar, gelatin, modified food starch (corn), fumaric acid, lactic acid, citric acid, sodium citrate, calcium lactate, sodium lactate, natural and artificial flavors, titanium dioxide [color], red 40, yellow 5, yellow 6, blue 1.
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Contains Red 40 (Allura Red)
- ● High Sugar Content

Candy blasts real chocolate chip cookies
Ingredients: Unbleached enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate {vitamin b1}, riboflavin {vitamin b2}, folic acid), palm oil, sugar, semisweet chocolate chips (sugar, chocolate cocoa butter, dextrose, milk, soy lecithin), candy coated morsels (sugar, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, cocoa, cocoa processed with alkali, dextrose, whey, artificial color, confectioner's glaze {shellac, carnauba wax, beeswax}, yellow 5 lake, blue 1, red 40 lake, soy lecithin, yellow 5, red 3, blue 1 lake, blue 2 lake), high fructose corn syrup, leavening (baking soda, ammonium phosphate), salt, soy lecithin, caramel color, artificial flavor, natural flavor.
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Contains Red 40 (Allura Red)
- ● High Sugar Content

The Good
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● High Sugar Content

Peanut chocolate candy fun size ounce
Ingredients: Milk chocolate (sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter, skim milk, lactose, milkfat, peanuts, soy lecithin, salt, artificial flavors), sugar, peanuts, cornstarch, less than 1% - corn syrup, dextrin, coloring (includes blue 1 lake, yellow 6, red 40, yellow 5, blue 1, yellow 6 lake, red 40 lake, yellow 5 lake, blue 2 lake, blue 2), gum acacia.
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Contains Red 40 (Allura Red)
- ● High Sugar Content

Mini Milk Chocolate Bars
Ingredients: Sugar, Cocoa Butter,, Whole Milk Powder,, Unsweetened Chocolate,, Soy Lecithin (Emulsifier),, Natural Vanilla Flavor.
The Good
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● High Sugar Content

Classic Candy Corn
Ingredients: Sugar, corn syrup, confectioner's glaze (shellac), salt, dextrose, gelatin, sesame oil, artificial flavor, honey, yellow 6, yellow 5, red 3.
The Good
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Contains Corn Syrup
- ● High Sugar Content

Sour gold-bears gummi candy
Ingredients: Corn syrup, sugar, gelatin, dextrose, citric acid, malic acid, calcium citrate, sodium malate, corn starch, artificial and natural flavors, artificial colors: yellow 5, red 40, blue 1, carnauba wax
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Contains Red 40 (Allura Red)
- ● High Sugar Content

Candy Coated Peanuts
Ingredients: Sugar, peanuts, corn syrup, corn syrup, modified food starch (corn), acacia (gum arabic), confectioner's glaze (shellac), artificial flavor, carnauba wax, white mineral oil, red 40, yellow 5, yellow 6, blue 2.
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Contains Red 40 (Allura Red)
- ● High Sugar Content

Botan rice candy
Ingredients: Corn syrup, sugar, water, glutinous rice flour, wafer paper (potato starch, sweet potato starch, rapeseed oil, soy lecithin), natural flavor, FD&C Red no 40.
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Contains Corn Syrup

Jolly Rancher Hard Candy
Ingredients: Corn syrup; sugar; contains 2% or less of: malic acid; natural flavor and artificial flavor; artificial color [red 40; yellow 5; blue 1; yellow 6]; mineral oil; lecithin (soy).
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Contains Red 40 (Allura Red)
- ● High Sugar Content

lemon bar
Ingredients: Dates, Cashews, Almonds, Lemon Juice Concentrate, Dried Lemon Juice Concentrate, Lemon Oil
The Good
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Peanut Butter Cups
Ingredients: WHEY PROTEIN ISOLATE, ERYTHRITOL, UNSWEETENED CHOCOLATE, COCOA BUTTER, PEANUTS, PALM KERNEL OIL, SOLUBLE CORN FIBER, SODIUM CASEINATE, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF THE FOLLOWING: LECITHIN (SUNFLOWER AND/OR SOY LECITHIN), SEA SALT, BUTTERFAT, NATURAL FLAVOR, PEANUT OIL, SUCRALOSE
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Contains Peanut

The Good
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Contains Red 40 (Allura Red)
- ● High Sugar Content

Funfetti Premium Cake & Cupcake Mix with Candy Bits
Ingredients: enriched bleached flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sugar, candy bits (sugar, vegetable oil (palm and palm kernel), modified corn starch, soy lecithin, yellow 5, red 40, blue 1, carnauba wax, yellow 6), leavening (baking soda, calcium phosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate), contains 2% or less of: canola oil, dextrose, salt, cellulose, corn starch, propylene glycol esters of fatty acids, mono - and diglycerides, xanthan gum, natural and artificial flavor, cellulose gum, sodium stearoyl lactylate, soy lecithin, whey, sodium caseinate, palm kernel oil, bht and citric acid (antioxidants). contains milk, soybean and wheat ingredients. may contain egg ingredients.
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Contains Red 40 (Allura Red)
- ● High Sugar Content

Gummi candy
Ingredients: Corn syrup, sugar, gelatin, modified food starch (corn), fumaric acid, lactic acid, citric acid, sodium citrate, calcium lactate, natural and artificial flavors, sodium lactate, titanium dioxide [color], red 40, blue 1.
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Contains Red 40 (Allura Red)
- ● High Sugar Content

Dark chocolate candy, dark chocolate
Ingredients: Semisweet chocolate (sugar, chocolate, chocolate processed with alkali, cocoa butter, milkfat, soy lecithin, artificial and natural flavors).
The Good
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● High Sugar Content

Watermelon Soft & Chewy Candy
Ingredients: sugar, invert sugar, corn syrup, modified corn starch, citric acid, tartaric acid, natural and artificial flavor, titanium dioxide, red 40, yellow 5, blue 1,
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Contains Red 40 (Allura Red)
- ● High Sugar Content

Candy theater box
Ingredients: dextrose, maltodextrine, acidifiant: acide malique, émulsifiant'. stéarate de calcium, arômes naturels, colorants: bleu brillant FCF, indigotine, rouge attura AC* , tartrazine* *Peuvent avoir des effets indésirables sur ('activité et l'attention des enfants Peut contenir des oeufs Risques d'étouffement pour enfants de moins de 4 ans
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● High Sugar Content

Candy
Ingredients: Sugar, corn syrup, maltodextrin, dextrose, modified food starch (corn), palm oil, contains less than 2% of: citric acid, water, artificial flavors, red 40, blue 1, yellow 6, yellow 5.
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Contains Red 40 (Allura Red)
- ● High Sugar Content

Original minis fruit chews candy
Ingredients: sugar, corn syrup, palm oil, less than 2% of: citric acid, sodium citrate, pectin, apple juice from concentrate, mono - and diglycerides, confectioner's glaze, natural and artificial flavors, color (yellow 6, red 40, yellow 5, blue 1), carnauba wax,
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Contains Red 40 (Allura Red)
- ● High Sugar Content

Quaker Chew Dipps Chocolate Chip
Ingredients: Granola (whole grain rolled oats, brown sugar, brown rice crisp [whole grain brown rice flour, sugar, salt], whole grain rolled wheat, soybean oil, whole wheat flour, sodium bicarbonate, soy lecithin, nonfat dry milk), sugar, hydrogenated vegetable oil blend (palm kernel and palm oil), brown rice crisp (whole grain brown rice flour, sugar, salt), corn syrup, invert sugar, semisweet chocolate chips (sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, soy lecithin, vanilla extract), whey, brown sugar, corn syrup solids, glycerin, lactose, vegetable shortening (monounsaturated canola oil, palm oil, palm kernel oil), cocoa powder, cocoa (processed with alkali), sorbitol, soy lecithin, milk fat, salt, glyceryl lacto esters of fatty acids, water, natural and artificial flavor, soybean oil, BHT (preservative), citric acid. (3453-4)
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Contains Corn Syrup
- ● High Sugar Content

Sour gummy candy: Apricot, Pomegranate, Plum
Ingredients: WATER, TAPIOCA FIBER SYRUP, ALLULOSE, APPLE JUICE CONCENTRATE, TAPIOCA FLOUR, CITRIC ACID, PECTIN, FRUIT AND VEGETABLE JUICE (COLOR), CITRATE, NATURAL POMEGRANATE FLAVOR, NATURAL APRICOT FLAVOR, NATURAL PLUM FLAVOR, COCONUT OIL, CARNAUBA WAX
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Strawberry/Cotton Candy Smoothies
Ingredients: cultured grade a low fat milk, water, cane sugar, modified food starch, contains less than 1% of milk minerals, fruit , vegetable juice (for color), natural flavors, lemon juice concentrate, vitamin d3, active yogurt cultures s. thermophilus , l. bulgaricus
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed
