Every Barratt product sold in the UK broken down by portion size and checked against NHS daily free sugar limits for children aged 4 to 17.
Barratt makes many of the traditional British sweets found in pick-and-mix, party bags and corner shops. The formats are small and priced at pocket-money level, which means they are bought for children and eaten in quantities that are easy to lose track of.
All the sugar in Barratt products is free sugar. There is no fruit content, no fibre and no meaningful nutritional contribution in any of them. Fruit names on the packaging describe flavouring rather than ingredients.
The sherbet products combine sugar with an acid and a raising agent, which is what produces the fizzing sensation on the tongue. They are close to pure sugar by weight and contain effectively no fat.
The fondant and jelly lines are built on sugar and glucose syrup with a gelling agent, sometimes layered with coloured sugar fondant. The firmness that separates one product from another comes from the gelling agent and moisture content rather than from any difference in sugar concentration.
The foam and aerated lines use a whipped base, which lowers the density of the sweet without lowering the sugar concentration per gram. A foam sweet feels lighter than a jelly one of the same size but carries a similar sugar load for its weight.
Individual pieces are small across the range, so per-sweet figures look modest. The figure worth checking is the full bag or single-serve pack, several of which contain a large proportion of a child's entire daily limit.
Each product page includes a full nutrition breakdown per sweet and per bag, portion size comparisons at 5, 10 and 20 sweets and full bag, age-adjusted NHS daily limit calculations for children aged 4 to 17, an interactive calculator for your child's specific age and gender, and a complete ingredient and allergen guide.
