Original Fruit Chews

Breakdown

Ultra-processed · 8 ingredients to avoid

Includes lab results from its product family: Starburst Original Fruit Chews

Contaminants · 4

Starburst Original Fruit Chews scores 5/100 on Tallow — our avoid band. That number comes from what is on the label: the ingredients, how processed it is, and what it is packaged in, plus lab results from its product family, Starburst Original Fruit Chews. Per serving it carries 0g protein and 16g sugar. 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.

Starburst Original Fruit Chews lists 13 ingredients, starting with Sugar, Corn Syrup, Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil, Citric Acid and Tapioca Dextrin. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

120 kcal per serving, or 414 kcal per 100g. Calories are only part of the picture — Tallow scores Starburst Original Fruit Chews on what the ingredients are, not how many calories they carry.

At 5/100 Starburst Original Fruit Chews scores worse than most gummies & chewy candy we have scored. A higher-scoring option in gummies & chewy candy is Blue Stripes Superfruit Gummies Mango Pineapple at 100/100.