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Chocolate limes
A green lime shell around a chocolate middle, the chocolate lime is a boiled sweet with a surprise inside. Here is what goes into one, where its green comes from, and the allergy points worth knowing.
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Chocolate limes are lime flavoured boiled sweets with a chocolate centre. The UK retailer Sweets and Candy describes them as lime flavoured boiled sweets with a smooth, chocolatey centre.
What is in them
Chocolate Limes, as listed by Sweets and Candy. Sugar, glucose syrup, water, dark chocolate containing soya, icing sugar, flavouring, and the colours E133 and E102. The retailer lists them as suitable for vegetarians.
The shell is a boiled sweet, made by cooking sugar and glucose syrup until almost no water is left, and the dark chocolate forms the centre: see how are boiled sweets made?
Where the green comes from
The recipe lists only two colours: brilliant blue, E133, and tartrazine, E102, which is yellow. Mixed together, blue and yellow make green. Tartrazine is one of the six colours that must carry the warning may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children, and the listing shows it: see the Southampton six colours
Allergy points
- Soya. The dark chocolate contains soya: see soya in sweets
- Milk. Milk is not listed as an ingredient, but the retailer warns that the sweets may contain milk: see what does may contain mean on sweets?
- Nuts and gluten. The retailer also warns that they may contain nuts and gluten.
Safety
The shell is a hard boiled sweet. The NHS says not to give young children hard foods such as boiled sweets, because of the risk of choking: see hard sweets and young children
In our pick and mix
We do not sell chocolate limes, but we do sell other traditional boiled sweets, such as 
Rhubarb and Custard and 
Pineapple Chunks. Each card opens up to show the full ingredients and allergens for the sweets we actually stock.
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Questions and answers
What are chocolate limes made of?
One UK recipe: sugar, glucose syrup, water, dark chocolate containing soya, icing sugar, flavouring, and the colours E133 and E102.
Why are chocolate limes green?
The recipe here lists only two colours: brilliant blue, E133, and tartrazine, E102, a yellow. Blue and yellow together make the green.
Do chocolate limes contain milk?
Milk is not listed as an ingredient in the recipe here, which uses dark chocolate, but the retailer warns that they may contain milk, as well as nuts and gluten.
Why do chocolate limes carry a warning?
Tartrazine, E102, is one of the six colours that must carry the warning may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children.
Sources
- Chocolate limes 1kg, product listing, Sweets and Candy
- Tartrazine, Wikipedia
- Foods to avoid giving babies and young children, NHS
Keep reading
- How it is madeHow are boiled sweets made?Boiled sweets are sugar syrup boiled to around 160°C, flavoured, coloured and shaped while warm, then set into a glassy solid about 98 per cent sugar.
- Questions people askWhat are boiled sweets?Boiled sweets are hard sweets made by boiling sugar syrup until almost no water is left. They set into a glassy solid that dissolves slowly as you suck it.
- Diet, allergens and labelsThe Southampton six coloursThe Southampton six are E102, E104, E110, E122, E124 and E129, synthetic colours that carry a warning about children. Each one explained.
- Diet, allergens and labelsSoya in sweetsSoya can appear in sweets as soya lecithin, E322, an emulsifier used in chocolate. Soya is one of the 14 allergens, though some soya ingredients are exempt.
- Diet, allergens and labelsHard sweets and young childrenThe NHS says not to give young children hard foods such as boiled sweets or whole nuts, because of choking. What to watch for, and what to do if a child chokes.
- Questions people askWhat are retro sweets?Retro sweets are the sweets of past childhoods: Black Jacks, Sherbet Fountains, Parma Violets, Love Hearts, flying saucers and Wham bars. Here are their dates.