# Milk bottle sweets

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## Summary

Milk bottle sweets are chewy, milk flavoured bottles. Some recipes use condensed milk and beef gelatine, while one here has neither.

## Description

Milk bottle sweets are small, white, chewy sweets shaped like old fashioned milk bottles, with a sweet, milky flavour. They are made in bottle shaped moulds like other gummy sweets: see how are milk bottle sweets made?
Three recipes
Barratt Milk Bottles, 150 g bag, as recorded by Open Food Facts. Glucose syrup, sugar, sweetened condensed milk (17 per cent, made from whole milk, sugar and lactose), maize starch, beef gelatine, flavouring and salt. The record was last updated in July 2026.
Barratt Milk Bottles, as listed by The Candy King. Sugar, glucose syrup, maize starch, beef gelatine, flavourings, palm, coconut and sunflower oils, and carnauba wax and beeswax as glazing agents. This listing includes no milk at all.
Morrisons Milk Bottles, 75 g, as recorded by Open Food Facts. Glucose syrup, sugar, modified potato starch, water, maize starch, maltodextrin, hydrolysed pea protein, potato protein, sunflower oil, flavouring, carnauba wax and beeswax, and caramelised sugar syrup. There is no milk and no gelatine.
Same name, different recipe
The two Barratt listings do not match: one lists condensed milk, and the other does not. The listings do not say whether one is out of date or whether they describe different products. Either way, the lesson for anyone with a milk allergy is plain: read the label on the sweets in front of you, not a list you remember: see how to read a sweet label and milk in sweets
Milk flavour without milk
Where there is no milk in the recipe, the milky taste comes from flavourings. The Morrisons recipe gets its chew from potato and maize starches, with pea and potato proteins, instead of gelatine. Starch based sweets use added protein like this to help them hold air: see what sweets are gelatine free?
Diet and allergy points
Milk. The Barratt bag recipe contains milk, so it is not suitable for anyone with a milk allergy or for vegans.Gelatine. Both Barratt listings name beef gelatine, so those milk bottles are not suitable for vegetarians: see gelatine in sweets explainedBeeswax. The Morrisons recipe has no gelatine, but its beeswax glaze means it is not vegan: see what is beeswax on sweets?Younger children. The Candy King's Barratt listing says milk bottles are not suitable for children under 36 months, because of the risk of choking.
In our pick and mix
We sell SW031 by the 100 g. Recipes differ between makers, so the card opens up to show the full ingredients and allergens for the milk bottles we actually stock.

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