What's wrong with Haribo sweets ??

[mummyloveslucy]

I've noticed a few times on hear now, people saying things like the dredded Haribos ect.
I just wondered if it's because they're sweets or if they were particulally bad for children? I've always trusted Haribo as it's a very well known brand. If they are much worse than other brands, then I'll stop my daughter having them.
Could someone please let me know.

Nothing wrong with gelatin as long as you are not a vegetarian
"gelatin (also gelatine, from French gélatine) is a translucent, colourless, brittle, nearly tasteless solid substance, extracted from the collagen inside animals' skin and bones. It has been commonly used as a gelling agent in food, pharmaceutical, photography, and cosmetic manufacturing. Substances containing gelatin or functioning in a similar way are called gelatinous. Gelatin is an irreversibly hydrolyzed form of collagen. Gelatin is classified as a foodstuff and has E441 E number.

Gelatin is in bones and skin. Info here if you're interested.

They are the only sweets over the planet DS can have (VERRRRRY alergic child here). To be honest, I don't think that a healthy sweet does exist.

All have their pros and cons but are equally bad for the children, regardles of what we want to believe

It sounds horrible, I'm not a vegiterian but I can see why vegiterians wouldn't want their children to have them.
I don't suppose I'd eat much if I really thought about what's in the food.
I do try to go for the no added ingredients etc.

You can get halal ones in ASDA

saw them and thought? what could be different?

thanks to gruesome detailed outline of what gelatin is, I now knwo why!!!

Does anybody here eat Jelly or Sunday roasts? well that kind of jelly that forms over the liquids once the roast is cold is gelatine. Obviously, sweets come with other added rubish like plenty of sugar.

Most of us non vegetarians eat it anyway.

gelatine is meant to be good for preventing arthritis
any excuse eh

ohhh, I love the jelly from a roast chicken....

Haribo now has no artificial colours so OK with me.

blimey, they are JUST SWEETS

love cola bottles meself, yum

Would have to agree with the vegetarian angle. Gelatine is a particularly GROSS form of meat, being all by-products and stuff, but is in a scary amount of kid food like Haribo (and all other gummy sweets), yogurt etc etc.

By the way, did you know that a lot of products which now advertise themselves as no artificial colourings use squashed beetles (cochinel red) as a colouring instead? The world is a scary place for vegetarian parents!

I can't take sweets/jelly etc off DD1, obviously, because it would be cruel (she's only 3 so wouldn't understand) so I HATE IT when Haribo gets handed out at pre-school.

I like the cherries, able to get 1kg bags in Italy {yeah}

Gelatine is in loads of foods actually- even some yoghurts!

i,know 100% these sweet actually contain sugar lots of it a standard big pack have actually got 5 ozs of pure sugsr in just one pack !! until i knew that i use to get them for my kids now i 100% don't

whats worse is when the gelatine is animal specific

YUM porcine galatine in my chocolate pud

SCRUMMY bovine gelatine lemon mousse

more haribo?? crunch crunch - these bones are lush

I am gutted they aren't veggie as they taste lovely, but every time I look at them I shudder now

I love Haribo, but have never bothered with checking for colourings etc as dd's sugar intake and hyper moments never seem to correspond, so am not the right person to answer this

No wonder I'm getting fat

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Surely the Halal ones do have gelatine in, just from animals that have been killed according to the requirements for Halal status?

it is animal balls and vagnias

ZOMBIE THREAD.

Is there a particular reason you were looking for a thread to talk about animal balls and vaginas gymnast?

You can get halal Haribo in Tesco.

Their adverts are so annoying