Someone just said they contain cochineal, but from what i'm reading, this is not true:
Carmine is red dye #4, Crimson Lake, ec.
But Swedish fish (according to wikipedia) contain red dye #40
From wiki: "Despite the popular misconception, Allura Red AC is not derived from any insect, unlike the food colouring carmine which is derived from the female cochineal insect"
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Ingredients
Swedish Fish are one of the few gummy candies that contain no gelatin. According to the USA distribution packages, the candy contains the following ingredients:
Sugar
Invert Sugar
Corn syrup
Modified Corn starch
Citric Acid
White Mineral Oil
Artificial flavors
Coloring (FD&C Red 40 for the red color)
Carnauba wax
I don't see anything non-vegan in the ingredients, correct me if i'm wrong.
Technically yes. I tend not to worry about sugar in foods I eat (although I buy evaporated cane juice or turbinado sugar for use in the home). Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids are two types of "gummy" candies that are vegan, even if they aren't particularly healthy.
I want to clarify something here, just because you are eating a vegan diet does not mean it is necessarily healthier, you could sit there munching on vegan cupcakes cookies and cake all day (because we can eat that and its yummy) and get fat or fatter than those eating mcdonswedish fish veganalds.
I buy organic Swedish Berries at a Health Food store here in Toronto Canada, they use seaweed gel, pure fruit juice, fructose which is a fruit based sweetener and pectin again derived from fruit.
Invert Sugar is also known as glucose a syrup made in the sugar process, not filtered, and for those who still insist that they use bone char, it is not used since the Mad Cow scare for a few years back, most place now use cloth or paper pressure filters like brewery's and winery's.
Most Food colour now is a chemically based one, no many Cochineal beetles get ground now a days.
I'm inclined to believe that it's the chemical red dye and not carmine, because I used to eat them as a kid and they gave me terrible headaches, which I always get from the chemical red dye (kool aid, etc). I don't know why they feel the need to dye foods at all - it tastes the same whether it's red or white or clear.
@the first answer: Swedish fish are not really fish lol!
Ah, you're right. My apologies, I had just assumed that all red food dye was sourced the same.
However, I still don't consider sweedish fish to be vegan because of the sugar. Bone char, made from the bones of cows, is at times used to whiten sugar. Some sugar companies use it in filters to decolorize their sugar. Other types of filters involve granswedish fish veganular carbon or an ion exchange system rather than bone char.sugar companies
Unless I knew for a fact that the sugar was raw, I wouldn't go for it.
Looks vegan to me. But, veganism usually signifies concern for ones dietary intake, which would generally mean avoiding candy in the first place :)
And who knows what's in the euphemistically termed "artificial flavors" - it's likely MSG so you can get addicted, fat and diabetic!
Just about any type of wiki site involves anyone having the power to change information.
The information you got from wikipedia is most likely incorrect which is what makes wikipedia a very unreliable site.
Most likely Swedish Fish isn't vegan friendly.
Red 40 is a coal tar dye, i.e. animal derivative free. Peta lists Swedish Fish (and Sour Patch Kids) as vegan on it's list of foods that are accidentally vegan.
You don't know where the sugar came from, so I wouldn't go there.
i dont know but id rather eat color made from a bug then space aged chemicals.
Yes, they are. :)
Best way to find out it to contact them.
Wikipedia can be changed by anyone, so the information is not always accurate!
And no Swedish Fish are not vegan, no fish can possibly be vegan because they are living creatures.
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