# Fizzy cola bottles

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## Summary

Fizzy cola bottles are cola gummies in a sour sugar coat. Three UK recipes compared: a vegan one made with wheat starch, a halal one and a standard one.

## Description

Fizzy cola bottles are cola flavoured gummy bottles tumbled in sugar sharpened with acid. For the plain, glazed kind, see cola bottles, and for how both are shaped, see how are cola bottle sweets made?
Three recipes, three diets
Kingsway fizzy cola bottles, as listed by The Candy King. Sugar, glucose syrup, wheat starch, water, modified maize starch, lactic, malic and citric acids, sodium malates, modified potato starch, caramel syrup and flavouring. The retailer labels them vegan and vegetarian, and marks wheat as an allergen.
Fizzy cola bottles, as listed by Sweets and Candy. Glucose syrup, sugar, corn starch, gelatine, glycerol, citric and malic acids, concentrates of molasses, hibiscus, apple and carrot, pectins and flavourings. The listing does not say which animal the gelatine comes from.
Halal fizzy cola bottles, as listed by Sweets and Candy. Glucose syrup, sugar, corn starch, beef gelatine, citric acid, tartaric and malic acids, plain caramel as a colour, and flavouring. The retailer says they are made with certified halal gelatine.
Starch instead of gelatine
Kingsway's recipe has no gelatine. It is set with wheat, maize and potato starches, which is how it can be labelled vegan: see starch jelly sweets explained
The trade off is wheat. Kingsway's bottles are not suitable for anyone who must avoid wheat, so a vegan label does not make a sweet safe for everyone: see wheat in sweets and what sweets are vegan in the UK?
The colours
None of the three recipes lists a synthetic colour. Kingsway's contains caramel syrup, the standard Sweets and Candy recipe uses concentrates of molasses, hibiscus, apple and carrot, and the halal recipe uses plain caramel, a colour made by heating sugars. That is quite different from Kingsway's plain cola bottles, which list four added colours: see cola bottles
Why they taste sharp
The coat is sugar mixed with acids. All three recipes use citric and malic acids, Kingsway's adds lactic acid, and the halal recipe adds tartaric acid. None lists bicarbonate, so the sharpness comes from acid rather than real fizz: see how are sour sweets made? and why do fizzy sweets fizz on your tongue?
Other allergy points
Sweets and Candy says its sweets are packed where wheat, gluten, soya, milk, peanuts and nuts are handled, and it marks the halal bottles as may contain gluten: see pick and mix and allergies
In our pick and mix
We sell SW014 and SW024 by the 100 g. Recipes differ between makers, so each card opens up to show the full ingredients and allergens for the fizzy cola bottles we actually stock.

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