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Milk teeth sweets
Shaped like a set of baby teeth, milk teeth are a pick and mix joke you can eat. Here is what goes into them, why the name does not mean milk, and the diet points worth knowing.
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Milk teeth are gum sweets shaped like teeth, with a strawberry and vanilla flavour. They are made by Barratt, and the joke is in the name: milk teeth are the baby teeth children lose, not teeth made of milk.
What is in them
Barratt Milk Teeth, as listed by Sweets and Candy. Sugar, glucose syrup, water, maize starch, beef gelatine, lactic acid, flavourings, and carmine and anthocyanins as colours. Open Food Facts records for Barratt's milk teeth packs list the same ingredients, and one photographed pack describes them as strawberry and vanilla flavour teeth shaped gums.
No milk inside
Despite the name, the recipe lists no milk, cream or milk powder. The vanilla taste comes from flavourings. That makes milk teeth different from milk bottles, some recipes for which do contain milk: see milk bottle sweets and milk in sweets
How they are shaped
Gum sweets like milk teeth are shaped by pouring the hot mixture into tooth shaped hollows pressed into trays of starch. The sweets are left in drying rooms to set, then tipped out and cleaned: see how are gummy sweets shaped?
Diet points
- Gelatine. Milk teeth are set with beef gelatine, so they are not suitable for vegetarians or vegans, and beef gelatine is only halal if the cattle were slaughtered according to Islamic law: see gelatine in sweets explained
- Carmine. The colour comes from carmine, a red made from insects, and from anthocyanins, plant pigments: see what is carmine?
- Other allergens. Sweets and Candy says its sweets are packed where wheat, gluten, soya, milk, peanuts and nuts are handled: see pick and mix and allergies
Teeth cousins
For jelly teeth, see jelly teeth
In our pick and mix
We do not sell milk teeth, but we do sell 
Jelly Teeth and 
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Questions and answers
Do milk teeth sweets contain milk?
Not in the recipe here. The name refers to baby teeth, and the ingredients list sugar, glucose syrup, water, maize starch, beef gelatine, lactic acid, flavourings and two colours, with no milk.
What flavour are milk teeth?
Strawberry and vanilla, according to a pack photographed for Open Food Facts.
Are milk teeth vegetarian?
No. The recipe here uses beef gelatine, and carmine, a colour made from insects.
Are milk teeth halal?
The listings here do not say so. They use beef gelatine, which is only halal if it comes from cattle slaughtered according to Islamic law, so look for a halal label.
Sources
- Milk teeth 1kg, Barratt, product listing, Sweets and Candy
- Milk teeth, 160 g, product record, Open Food Facts
- Carmine, Wikipedia
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