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Smarties

Greenveil's read: consider avoiding. Food health critical · 1 additive of concern (Cochineal / carmine).

Food health
Critical
Chemical concern
Not assessed

Allergens

  • Gluten
  • Soy

Declared on pack via Open Food Facts · updated 16 Nov 2025

Why it's rated this way

1 additive on this label is on our additives-of-concern list.

  1. Cochineal / carmineModerate concernInsect-derived red colour; documented allergic and anaphylactic reactions.
    What it is
    Its role isn't recorded in our data yet.
    Why it's flagged
    Insect-derived red colour; documented allergic and anaphylactic reactions.
    Regulatory basis
    Greenveil's curated additives-of-concern list, which cites the authority behind each entry.
    How sure we are
    High confidence. Matched by the additive code declared on the label.

A food's rating also reflects nutrition (Nutri-Score) and processing (NOVA); the additives above are the ingredient-level part of it.

Ingredients

  • Surar full cream milk powder cocoa butter cocoa mass vegetable fat56.3%No flag
  • Emulsifier21.9%No flag
  • Soya lecithin21.9%No flag›
  • Emulsifiers10.9%No flag
  • Soya lecithin5.5%No flag›
  • 4765.5%No flag
  • Wheat flour5.5%No flag›
  • Rice starch2.7%No flag›
  • Colours1.4%No flag
  • Carminic acid · E1200.7%Moderate

    Insect-derived red colour; documented allergic and anaphylactic reactions.

  • E160ai0.3%No flag
  • Anthocyann0.2%No flag
  • E141ii<0.1%No flag
  • Turmeric · E100<0.1%No flag
  • Flavouring0.7%No flag
  • Glazing agents0.7%No flag
  • 903‚9010.7%No flag
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surar full cream milk powder cocoa butter cocoa mass vegetable fat [emulsifier (soy lecithin), emulsifiers (soy lecithin, 476). wheat flour, rice starch, colours (carminic acid. beta carotene, anthocyann, copper chlorophyllin, turmeric), flavour, glazing agents (903,901),

Alerts

Declared allergens

This product declares Gluten, Soy.

Declared on pack via Open Food Facts · updated 16 Nov 2025

Food health

Nutrition profile and additives of concern

Contains additive of concern
  • Cochineal / carmineInsect-derived red colour; documented allergic and anaphylactic reactions.

Per-ingredient concern · chemical identity, not food safety

What drives this

1 low · 1 not assessed

1 of 2 ingredients not yet assessed · Show all

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