# Giant strawberries

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## Summary

Giant strawberries are big, soft strawberry flavoured jelly sweets set with starch, not gelatine. Why one is vegetarian, another vegan, and one has wheat.

## Description

Giant strawberries are large, soft jelly sweets shaped and flavoured like strawberries. Two well known versions in British shops come from Haribo, which calls them Giant Strawbs, and Kingsway, a pick and mix brand, which sells them in quarter pound, 113 g bags.
Set with starch
Both recipes are set with starch rather than gelatine: see starch jelly sweets explained
Haribo Giant Strawbs. Haribo lists glucose syrup, sugar, starch, strawberry juice from concentrate, citric acid, fruit and plant concentrates including aronia, blackcurrant, elderberry and spirulina for colour, caramelised sugar syrup, sunflower oil, flavouring, beeswax as a glazing agent, and elderberry extract. Haribo says they are suitable for vegetarians, and gives 42 g of sugar per 100 g.
Kingsway Giant Strawberries. The retailer ToffeeWorld lists sugar, glucose syrup, wheat starch, water, modified maize and potato starch, lactic, malic and citric acids, flavouring, black carrot, spirulina and safflower concentrates, coconut oil and carnauba wax. It describes them as gelatine free and suitable for vegans.
Vegetarian, vegan and wheat
The two recipes show why it pays to read the whole label:
Beeswax. Haribo's are glazed with beeswax, a product of bees, so they suit vegetarians but not vegans: see what is beeswax on sweets?Carnauba wax. Kingsway's use carnauba wax, from the leaves of a Brazilian palm, so they can be vegan: see what is carnauba wax on sweets?Wheat. Kingsway's contain wheat starch, so they are not suitable for anyone who must avoid wheat: see wheat in sweets
Strawberry cousins
If you like strawberry sweets, see also strawberries and cream sweets and how are strawberry laces made?
In our pick and mix
We sell SW006 by the 100 g. Recipes differ between makers, so the card opens up to show the full ingredients and allergens for the giant strawberries we actually stock.

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