Goody Good Stuff

A post about vegan sweets, yippee! I had an email last week from a company called Goody Good Stuff asking if I would like to review some sweets…hmm, now let me see? Of course the answer was yes, well actually the answer was ‘I’ll let my children review them’! So in a celebrity fashion I received some free goodies – yes I’m going up in the world, may have to review my stance on equality…

Here is the about information, taken from the companies website:

Goody Good Stuff is an all-new natural gummy candy range that is made with a plant derived bio-gum technology, which eliminates the need for animal-based gelatin, which most traditional gummy candies use.

Over the last 15 years, we have worked to develop a food technology, which allows us to remove the gelatine from Gummy candies while still producing a deliciously smooth and clear consistency. This makes our product range a first and only of its kind in the market. In addition, we have taken out all of the artificial colours and flavours and use only natural fruit and vegetable extracts in our range. Lastly, we have removed all of the other harmful food additives and possible allergens such as gluten, to create a truly all natural alternative, which is completely allergen free.

The sweets are currently available at a selection of stores including Waitrose and Holland and Barratt (full list here) and I would seriously recommend giving them a try. 4 flavours are vegan and 4 are vegetarian (these contain beeswax).

The vegan varieties are as follows (with our remarks added on!) not necessarily in order of yummi-ness!!

1.  Summer Peaches – these are just lovely and were the kids favourites, they are quite sweet and my six year old said they ‘tasted of strawberries’, in my opinion they do actually taste of juicy peaches (just having another one now just to check – hm, yep, definitely peaches!)

2. Sour Fruit Salad – My favourites by a long way (not that I wouldn’t eat all of the others in a second). These are like the usual fruit assortment segments you can get but nicer as they are cruelty free. There are different flavours in the pack and are stunningly good.

3. Sour Mix and Match – Both the kids and I like these, again, they come in different mixed flavours, they are more sour than the above, causing a little screwing up of the face upon eating which is great. Extremely nice.

4. Cola Breeze – Ah, just like the fizzy cola bottles I remember from being a child, although not quite as strong which is a good thing. Still some face screwing as the flavour hits the roof of the mouth but still gorgeous.

And for those thinking I’m endorsing these as I got some free sweets, incorrect, if they were awful I would tell you! I will be buying these for my kids in future, no more having to look at the back of the sweets everywhere I go to find out they have bovine extract in them, thank goodness!