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Murray Mints
Wrapped, smooth and minty, Murray Mints are one of the old names still on sale. Here is what goes into them, what the molasses in the recipe does, and the diet and allergy points worth knowing.
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Murray Mints are wrapped mint sweets sold under the Bassetts name, in rolls. The UK retailer Sweets and Candy describes them as smooth and creamy mint flavoured sweets and lists them as suitable for vegetarians.
What is in them
Murray Mints, as recorded by Open Food Facts. Sugar, glucose syrup, palm oil, molasses, salt, sunflower lecithin as an emulsifier, and flavourings.
For other mint sweets, see mint imperials and butter mints
Why there is molasses in a mint
Molasses is a thick by product of refining sugar cane or sugar beet into sugar. Sugar cane molasses is used to sweeten and flavour foods, and it is a major part of commercial brown sugar.
What the lecithin does
Lecithin is a group of fatty substances that attract both water and fat, which makes it an excellent emulsifier: it helps ingredients that would separate stay evenly mixed. It can come from egg yolk, soybeans, milk, rapeseed or sunflower oil, and the recipe here uses sunflower.
Diet and allergy points
- Vegetarian. Sweets and Candy lists Murray Mints as suitable for vegetarians, and the recipe recorded here contains no gelatine, milk or egg.
- Soya. The recipe uses sunflower lecithin rather than soya lecithin, which matters to anyone with a soya allergy, but recipes change, so check the pack: see soya in sweets and how to read a sweet label
- Palm oil. The recipe contains palm oil: see palm oil in sweets
Who makes them
Murray Mints have Doncaster roots: in the 19th and 20th centuries the town's sweet makers included Parkinson's, the butterscotch makers, Nuttall's Mintoes and Murray Mints: see Nuttall's Mintoes
Today Murray Mints are sold under the Bassetts name. Maynards Bassetts is a brand of Mondelez, the company that also makes Cadbury chocolate. For other old names still on sale, see what are retro sweets?
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We do not sell Murray Mints, but we do sell 
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Questions and answers
What are Murray Mints made of?
An Open Food Facts record lists sugar, glucose syrup, palm oil, molasses, salt, sunflower lecithin as an emulsifier, and flavourings.
Are Murray Mints vegetarian?
The UK retailer Sweets and Candy lists them as suitable for vegetarians, and the recipe recorded here contains no gelatine, milk or egg.
Do Murray Mints contain soya?
The recipe recorded here uses sunflower lecithin rather than soya lecithin. Recipes change, so check the pack if you avoid soya.
Who makes Murray Mints?
They are sold under the Bassetts name. Maynards Bassetts is a brand of Mondelez.
Sources
- Bassetts Murray Mints, 4 pack, product listing, Sweets and Candy
- Maynard Murray mints, product record, Open Food Facts
- Molasses, Wikipedia
- Lecithin, Wikipedia
- Doncaster, Wikipedia
Keep reading
- British heritage sweetsButter mintsButtermints are hard boiled sweets that taste of butter and mint. The recipe here contains no butter or milk, and three of its four colours are synthetic.
- British heritage sweetsMint imperialsMint imperials are round white mints with a hard sugar shell and a softer middle. In Scotland they are pan drops or granny sookers.
- Diet, allergens and labelsPalm oil in sweetsPalm oil turns up in some chocolate bars and sweets. It is efficient to grow but linked to deforestation. How it is labelled, and what certified means.
- Diet, allergens and labelsSoya in sweetsSoya can appear in sweets as soya lecithin, E322, an emulsifier used in chocolate. Soya is one of the 14 allergens, though some soya ingredients are exempt.
- Questions people askWhat are retro sweets?Retro sweets are the sweets of past childhoods: Black Jacks, Sherbet Fountains, Parma Violets, Love Hearts, flying saucers and Wham bars. Here are their dates.
- Diet, allergens and labelsHow to read a sweet labelWhat each part of a sweet label means: ingredients by weight, allergens in bold, E numbers, the nutrition table, legal warnings and when there is no date.