Candy Canes

Name: Candy Canes
Brand: SweeTarts

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Ingredients · 11

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Common questions

Is SweeTarts Candy Canes healthy?

SweeTarts Candy Canes 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. 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 SweeTarts Candy Canes?

SweeTarts Candy Canes lists 11 ingredients, starting with Corn Syrup, Sugar, Malic Acid, Natural and Artificial Flavors and Sodium Citrate. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does SweeTarts Candy Canes contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in SweeTarts Candy Canes’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 SweeTarts Candy Canes?

SweeTarts Candy Canes is NOVA group 4: ultra-processed. That is the top of the scale and the classification the score penalises most heavily.

How does SweeTarts Candy Canes compare to other hard candy & lollipops?

At 5/100 SweeTarts Candy Canes scores worse than most hard candy & lollipops we have scored. A higher-scoring option in hard candy & lollipops is Fox's Fruit at 90/100.

Is SweeTarts Candy Canes organic?

SweeTarts Candy Canes is not certified organic in our data.

Full methodology: how we score products.