# Winter mixture

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## Summary

Winter mixture is a bag of wrapped boiled sweets with herbal, aniseed and mint flavours. The recipe here contains milk and soya and two warning colours.

## Description

Winter mixture is a mixture of hard boiled sweets with warming flavours, sold individually wrapped. The UK retailer Sweets and Candy describes its winter mixture as winter warming sweets that usually include herbal sweets, aniseed sweets and mint flavour sweets.
What is in it
Winter Mixture, as listed by Sweets and Candy. Sugar, glucose syrup, water, citric acid, sweetened condensed skimmed milk, palm kernel oil and palm stearin, flavourings, the colours E122, E129, E142, E153 and E155, and soya lecithin. The retailer lists it as suitable for vegetarians.
Why a boiled sweet contains milk
The recipe lists sweetened condensed skimmed milk, which brings milk into a bag of boiled sweets. That matters for anyone with a milk allergy: see milk in sweets
The flavours
The herbal, aniseed and mint flavours of winter mixture are the same family as other British sweets for cold weather: cough candy, Army and Navy sweets and buttermints: see cough candy, Army and Navy sweets and butter mints
Like cough candy, winter mixture is a sweet, not a medicine. The recipe here contains no active ingredients, unlike medicated throat lozenges, which contain substances such as menthol or mild antiseptics.
Colours and allergens
Warning colours. Carmoisine, E122, and allura red, E129, are two of the six colours that must carry the warning may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children, and the listing shows it: see the Southampton six coloursMilk and soya. The recipe contains condensed skimmed milk and soya lecithin: see soya in sweetsMay contain. The retailer warns that it may contain nuts and gluten.
Safety
These are hard sweets, and the NHS says not to give younger children hard foods such as boiled sweets, because of the risk of choking: see hard sweets and younger children
In our pick and mix
We do not sell winter mixture, but we do sell SW038 and SW040. Each card opens up to show the full ingredients and allergens for the sweets we actually stock.

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