# Bubblegum bottles

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## Summary

Bubblegum bottles are bottle shaped gummy sweets that taste of bubblegum but contain no gum. Two recipes compared, including a halal version.

## Description

Bubblegum bottles are gummy sweets shaped like little bottles, flavoured to taste like bubblegum and coated in sharp sugar. Despite the name, the recipes here contain no gum: they are jelly sweets with a bubblegum flavour.
Two recipes from one shop
The UK retailer Sweets and Candy lists small and giant fizzy bubblegum bottles, and their ingredients differ.
Fizzy Bubblegum Bottles. Sugar, glucose syrup, water, gelatine, malic and citric acids, glycerol, sodium carbonate as an acidity regulator, dextrose, flavouring, calcium phosphates as an anticaking agent, and the colours E120, E133 and E171. The listing says they may contain traces of milk.
Halal Giant Fizzy Bubblegum Bottles. Glucose syrup, sugar, apple juice from concentrate, corn starch, beef gelatine, citric acid, tartaric and malic acids, spirulina concentrate, titanium dioxide, flavouring, and concentrates of apple, radish, blackcurrant and black carrot. The retailer says they are made with certified halal gelatine.
What bubblegum flavour is
Bubblegum flavour does not come from any one fruit. It is a blend of flavourings that varies from one maker to another, and neither listing says what goes into its blend: see how is bubblegum made?
The colours
E120 is carmine, a red made from cochineal insects, so the smaller bottles are not suitable for vegans: see what is carmine?E133 is brilliant blue, a synthetic colour. The giant bottles get their blue from spirulina concentrate instead: see what is spirulina doing in my sweets?E171, titanium dioxide, is in both recipes. The EU banned it as a food additive in 2022, but the Food Standards Agency did not follow the ban, so it is still permitted in Great Britain: see what are E numbers in sweets?
Diet and allergy points
Gelatine. Both recipes contain gelatine, so neither is suitable for vegetarians or vegans: see gelatine in sweets explainedHalal. Only the giant bottles say their gelatine is certified halal: see a guide to halal sweetsMilk. The smaller bottles may contain traces of milk: see milk in sweetsGluten and other allergens. Neither recipe lists wheat, but the retailer says its sweets are packed where wheat, gluten, soya, milk, peanuts and nuts are handled, and it marks the giant bottles as may contain gluten: see pick and mix and allergies
Bottle cousins
Bubblegum bottles are one of a family of bottle shaped sweets: see how are cola bottle sweets made? and how are milk bottle sweets made?
In our pick and mix
We sell SW025 by the 100 g. Recipes differ between makers, so the card opens up to show the full ingredients and allergens for the bubblegum bottles we actually stock.

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