Sour Bears

Name: Sour Bears
Brand: SmartSweets

75Clean

Ingredients · 4

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Common questions

Is SmartSweets Sour Bears healthy?

SmartSweets Sour Bears scores 75/100 on Tallow — our clean band. That number comes from what is on the label: the ingredients, how processed it is, and what it is packaged in. It is not a verdict on your diet — Tallow does not weigh calories, portion size or how often you eat it, so a high score means the ingredients are clean, not that the food is unlimited.

What is in SmartSweets Sour Bears?

SmartSweets Sour Bears lists 4 ingredients, starting with Stevia, Natural Flavours, Pectin and Citric Acid. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does SmartSweets Sour Bears contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in SmartSweets Sour Bears’s ingredient list matches a seed oil — canola, soybean, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, sunflower, safflower, rice bran or peanut oil, or an unspecified "vegetable oil".

How processed is SmartSweets Sour Bears?

SmartSweets Sour Bears is NOVA group 4: ultra-processed. That is the top of the scale and the classification the score penalises most heavily.

How does SmartSweets Sour Bears compare to other gummies & chewy candy?

At 75/100 SmartSweets Sour Bears sits in our top band, among the better gummies & chewy candy we have scored. A higher-scoring option in gummies & chewy candy is Haribo Starmix at 80/100.

Is SmartSweets Sour Bears organic?

SmartSweets Sour Bears is not certified organic in our data.

Has SmartSweets Sour Bears been lab tested?

Not yet. No independent lab has published results for SmartSweets Sour Bears, so its score is based on its ingredient list, processing and packaging alone.

Full methodology: how we score products.