sweets presentation vaatsa basic school (1)

What we studied...

• We studied sweeteners, colours and calories in sweets produced in Estonian factories.

• We also pointed out energy, protein, fat,

carbohydrates per 100 g.

• In Estonia there are allowed 12 synthetic colours in food products. In our presentation these are marked with the star.

• In 1994 the government lowered permissible limits of these colours from 300 mg/kg to 50 mg/kg.

The regulation act of the EU 1333/2008 for food additives and theregulation act of Estonia 81/2010 says: when using colourings E 102,104, 110, 122, 124, 129 in food products there must be a label on thepacket „E-number: may cause unhealthy impact on children´sactiveness and abilities.“

Sunset yellow (E110) - Colouring found in squashesCarmoisine (E122) - Red colouring in jelliesTartrazine (E102) - New colouring in lollies, fizzy drinksPonceau 4R (E124) - Red colouringQuinoline yellow (E104) - Food colouringAllura red AC (E129) - Orange/red food dye

Due to that we payed more attention to these colours in sweets. We alsoused comparing data from 2009. That´s why there is marked a yearbehind a colour used in given product.

There are seven factories in Estonia, which produce differentsweets: candies, marmalade, marzipan, zephyr, halvah, coockiesand waffles. We studied 23 sweets from 4 producers in givenresearch.

The biggest and oldestconfectionery company inEstonia is Kalev ChocolateFactory, which started itsactivities in Tallinn in 1806.

For years, Kalev has been the bestknown and most prestigioustrademark of Estonia.

We studied 15 products fromKalev

Strawberry flavored chewing candy

nutritional value per 100 g :

energy 1651kJ/390kcal

protein 0 g

fat 3 g

carbohydrates 84g

food colours E122* Carmoisine(2009)

E120 Carmine (2010)

Apple flavored chewing candy enriched with vitamin C



protein 0 g

fat 3 g

carbohydrates 84g

food colours E131, E102*tartrazine (2009)

E141, E161 (2010)

Cream-Vanilla flavored chewing candy



protein 0 g

fat 6 g

carbohydrates 85g

Cherry flavored jelly candynutritional value per 100 g :


protein 6 g

fat 8 g

carbohydrates 76 g

food colours E104*Quinoline yellow (2009)

No colours (2010)

„Kaseke“ bar


protein 8 g

fat 37 g

carbohydrates 49 g

„Kama“ barenergy 2587kJ/616kcal

protein 8 g

fat 36 g

carbohydrates 65 g

Orange flavoured hard-boiled candy with filling


protein 0 g

fat 0 g

carbohydrates 89 g

food colours E104*Quinoline yellow (2009)

E 120 Carmine (2010)

Pear flavoured hard-boiled candy


protein 0 g

fat 0g

carbohydrates 89 g

food colours E 131, 104*Quinoline yellow (2009)

E 141 E160a (2010)

“Barbariss” hard-boiled candynutritional value per 100 g :


protein 0 g

fat 0 g

carbohydrates 89g

food colours E122* Carmoisine (2009)

E120 Carmine (2010)

„Kalev Toffee classic“toffee



protein 2 g

fat 13 g

carbohydrates 62g

“Tallinn” rum flavoured water candy



protein 6 g

fat 30 g

carbohydrates 54g

„Kalev“ praline candy



protein 5g

fat 21g

carbohydrates 67g

Chocolate cream flavoured praline candy



protein 7g

fat 32g

carbohydrates 52g

Marzipan



protein 7g

fat 13g

carbohydrates 68g

Genuine Marzipan Vana Tallinn



protein 7g

fat 13g

carbohydrates 68g

We studied 5 products from AS Marmiton

Marmalade slices



protein 0g

fat 0g

carbohydrates 71,5g

food colours E120, E 141,E 160a

Zephyr vanilla



protein 0,6g

fat 0g

carbohydrates 67,3g

Zephyr strawberry



protein 0,6g

fat 0g

carbohydrates 67,3g

food colour E122*

● There are no marks:“May cause unhealthyimpact on children´sactiveness and abilities.“

Zephyr apple



protein 0,6g

fat 0g

carbohydrates 67,3g

food colour E104*

● There are no marks:“May cause unhealthyimpact on children´sactiveness and abilities.“

Halvah vanillanutritional value per 100 g :


protein 18,8g

fat 30,9g

carbohydrates 31,1g

We studied 1product from AS Maris Gilden

Ave Halvahnutritional value per 100 g :


protein 7,6g

fat 11,6g

carbohydrates 80g

We studied 2 products from AS Cautes

Marmalade Marja

Food colours: E104*

Quinoline yellow

E122 * Carmoisine

E110* Sunset yellow

E131 (2010)

● There is a mark: “May causeunhealthy impact on children´sactiveness and abilities.“

Monpansjee Apelsin

Food colours: E104*

Quinoline yellow (2010)

● There are no marks:“May cause unhealthy impact onchildren´s activeness andabilities.“

We found out the following:SweetenersThere are no sweeteners in sweets we studied.

Colours: Till 2010 the confectioners used all food colourings in their products including ones given above.

But since 2010:● The biggest confectioner Kalev replaced colourings with ones which did not need labelling. (E120, E141, E160, E161 )● A confectioner Cautes uses colourings (E104, E 110, E122) which need labelling. In one product we studied there was a label on the packet, in another there wasn´t.● A confectioner Marmiton uses given colourings ( E 104, E122) but there are no labels on the packets.

CaloriesWe pointed out the most highly calorific and the lowest calorific products.

The most highly calorific products per 100 g are“Kama“ bar 2587kJ/616kcal and “Kaseke” bar 2356kJ/561kcalChocolate cream flavoured praline candy 2201kJ/524kcal“Kalev“ praline candy 2003kJ/477kcalHalvahs: 1993kJ/473kcal (Halvah Vanilla)1918kJ/455kcal (Ave Halvah)Marzipan 1787kJ/424kcalCherry flavored jelly candies 1690kJ/400kcalChewing candies 1651kJ/390kcalToffees 1562kJ/372kcalHard-boiled candies 1491kJ/355kcalMarmalade slices 1217kJ/286kcal

The lowest calorific products areZephyrs 1154kJ/272kcal

sweets presentation vaatsa basic school (1)

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