# Strawberry bonbons

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## Summary

Strawberry bonbons are a British sweet with a hard outside and a chewy centre, dusted in icing sugar. What is in them, and why one recipe is vegan.

## Description

The word bonbon means different things in different countries. Elsewhere, a bonbon is usually a small chocolate, sometimes filled with liqueur and wrapped in coloured foil. In the United Kingdom, a bonbon is a hard sweet with a chewy centre, coated in icing sugar, and British bonbons come in flavours including strawberry, lemon, blue raspberry and toffee.
What is in them
Recipes vary between makers. CandyKing, a pick and mix supplier, lists the ingredients of its Strawberry Bonbons as:
Sugar and glucose syrup, the base of the sweet.Vegetable fats, coconut and palm: see palm oil in sweetsMaltodextrin, a carbohydrate made from starch.Citric acid, for a fruity tang: see what is citric acid in sweets?Sucrose esters of fatty acids, an emulsifier that helps the fat and sugar mix.Concentrates of apple, lemon, strawberry, beetroot, orange, pineapple and peach, natural flavouring, and beetroot red for colour: see natural colours in sweets
CandyKing gives 70.4 g of sugar, 5.8 g of fat and 4.9 g of saturated fat per 100 g.
Diet and allergies
CandyKing describes these bonbons as vegan and gelatine free. Two points are worth knowing:
Palm fat. The recipe uses palm fat, which some people choose to avoid for environmental reasons: see palm oil in sweetsMay contain milk. CandyKing warns that they may contain milk, and that pick and mix scoops move between boxes, so allergens can travel. A sweet can be vegan by recipe and still carry a milk warning: see milk in sweets and pick and mix and allergies
Other bonbons
Bonbons also come in toffee, lemon and blue raspberry flavours: see toffee bonbons
In our pick and mix
We sell SW045 by the 100 g. Recipes differ between makers, so the card opens up to show the full ingredients and allergens for the strawberry bonbons we actually stock.

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