# Fizzy strawberry belts

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## Summary

Fizzy strawberry belts are flat strips of sweet in a sour sugar coat. Vidal's are made with wheat flour and carmine, so not vegan or gluten free.

## Description

Fizzy strawberry belts are long, flat strips of red sweet, flavoured with strawberry and coated in sugar sharpened with acid. Vidal, the sweet maker, sells them under the name Strawberry Belts, and the retailer The Sweet Store calls them one of its best sellers.
What is in them
The Sweet Store lists the ingredients of Vidal's Strawberry Belts as:
Sugar and glucose fructose syrup, the main sweeteners.Wheat flour, which contains gluten.Citric and malic acids, for the sour taste: see what is malic acid in sweets?Palm fat, dextrose and corn starch: see palm oil in sweetsAscorbic acid, vitamin C, used as an antioxidant, and potassium citrates, an acidity regulator.Flavouring and salt.Carrot and blackcurrant concentrates, and the colour E120.
Flour, not jelly
Like rainbow sour belts, these are made with wheat flour rather than set with gelatine: see rainbow sour belts. That makes them different from jelly sweets such as gummy strawberries, and it means they contain wheat and gluten, so they are not suitable for anyone with coeliac disease or a wheat allergy: see wheat in sweets
Where the red comes from
The red comes partly from carrot and blackcurrant concentrates and partly from E120, carmine, a colour made from cochineal insects. Carmine is not suitable for vegans, many vegetarians avoid it, and it may cause allergies: see what is carmine?
Other allergens
The Sweet Store warns that, because of the way its products are handled and made, all of them may contain nuts, peanuts, dairy, soya, gluten, mustard and other allergens: see pick and mix and allergies
Strawberry cousins
For other strawberry sweets, see strawberries and cream sweets and how are strawberry laces made?
In our pick and mix
We sell SW022 by the 100 g. Recipes differ between makers, so the card opens up to show the full ingredients and allergens for the fizzy strawberry belts we actually stock.

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