Strawberry Sweets Gummy Candies
by kate spade NEW YORK
Scores 25/100 on FDA SAFFA + CSPI ingredient analysis , with 3 flagged ingredients identified.
The verdict
Strawberry Sweets Gummy Candies by kate spade NEW YORK scores 25/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 15 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 15-component label led by Corn Syrup, Sugar, Corn Starch; compare those leading ingredients with the product's processing and nutrition fields before deciding whether it fits your goal. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 25/100
- Avoid safety score
- 3
- flagged ingredients of 15 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0196761450236
- Barcode (UPC/EAN)
Computed directly from OpenFoodFacts ingredient data cross-referenced with FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. See our methodology for the scoring formula.
61450236 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Strawberry Sweets Gummy Candies label screening desk
Strawberry Sweets Gummy Candies screens 25/100 with 3 flagged of 15 parsed ingredients. 10 of 15 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Blue 1). Derived index from public OFF + FDA SAFFA + CSPI data — not an official FDA rating; see methodology. Methodology · Read with nearest score peer: 3D Gummi Fruits (0 pts).
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
The composite for this product falls in the lowest of the four bands. That is where labels land when registry-rated components drive the greater part of the deduction from the index. The band name is drawn from the framework's own scale and is distinct from the ratings the registries themselves assign to individual substances, which are shown per component below. A single heavily rated component and several lightly rated ones can produce the same band, so the component table is the more precise reading of the two.
No Nutri-Score grade is present for this record in the OpenFoodFacts snapshot this page is built from. The nutritional dimension is absent rather than assessed and withheld: the grade depends on a complete declared nutrition panel, and community-contributed records vary in how much of that panel they carry. Nothing about the missing grade implies anything either way about the panel itself. The screen below covers additive ratings only and does not depend on the nutrition figures.
A mid-length component list was parsed from this label. There are enough separate entries for the screen to match several independently, while each matched entry still carries visible weight in the resulting index. Lists of this size are the most common shape in the catalogue, which makes the composite here easier to place against comparable products than at either extreme.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 73 products we've scored in the Gummy-candies category, the average safety score is 75.5/100. Strawberry Sweets Gummy Candies scores 50.5 points below that category average (25/100 vs. 75.5/100), so it is a comparatively weaker pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Gummy-candies products
Strawberry Sweets Gummy Candies lists 15 ingredients on its label
15 24th percentile a longer ingredient list than 24% of the 68 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 10–12
- 5 products (7%)
- 12–14
- 8 products (12%)
- 14–16
- 13 products (19%)
- 16–18
- 12 products (18%)
- 18–20
- 13 products (19%)
- 20–22
- 3 products (4%)
- 22–24
- 5 products (7%)
- 24–26
- 2 products (3%)
- 26–28
- 2 products (3%)
- 28–30
- 4 products (6%)
- 40 and above
- 1 products (1%)
Source Open Food Facts, product label ingredient lists · July 2026
Ingredient-list length is a descriptive property of the label, not a safety rating. A longer list is not automatically worse and a shorter one is not automatically better; the count is shown so the label can be placed against a comparable population. The comparison here runs against the 68 Gummy-candies products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
Full Ingredient List
CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, WATER, GELATIN (PORK), CITRIC ACID, LACTIC ACID, SODIUM LACTATE, ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, BEESWAX, CARNAUBA WAX, YELLOW 5, RED 40, BLUE 1
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, CSPI Chemical Cuisine.
Product data from OpenFoodFacts (ODbL). Ingredient safety ratings from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine. See our methodology for details.
This information is for reference only and does not constitute dietary or medical advice.
Cross-brand products with similar screening profiles
Two PlainFoodSafe-derived peer sets for Strawberry Sweets Gummy Candies, both outside the kate spade NEW YORK brand so the neighborhoods are not catalog containment (the More-from block above stays brand-local).
Similar safety score
Nearest cross-brand products by ingredient screening score (25/100 here).
Similar ingredient-count peers
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (15 here).
Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Product figures are computed directly from OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, and CSPI Chemical Cuisine data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.
