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  • March 26, 2016

    Back to sugar free Sweets

    Ever wondered why some sweets are called hard boiled.  It's all to do with water content  Most sweets are made from a syrup made with sugar and water, or in the case of sugar free sweets, an isomalt  syrup or...

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  • February 12, 2016

    Sugar free celebrities - can you trust them?

    Looking at a copy of the Mail on Sunday there was an article about how some of the advice given out by cerebrate to reduce sugar could not always be trusted .  This is something I have blogged about before.  Some of...

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  • December 26, 2015

    Sugar Free Sale

    It's Sale time! Now Christmas is over we're busy deciding what yummy sweets to stock in the New Year.  So we want to make a bit more space in the sweet cupboard and, at the same time, give you a...

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  • October 2, 2015

    What's in a name?.

    I've just been adding our new whisky & ginger sugar free sweets to the Sweetswithout website.  It made me realise just how evocative the name of a sweet can be.    As soon as I saw the words "Whisky & Ginger" I...

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  • September 23, 2015

    Sugar free Sweets from Greece

    We have added a new range of sugar free sweets that come from Greece. The taste has a distinctly original twist with hints of Mediterranean flavours.  They are quite sweet compared with some of the English sweets but the unusual flavours mean...

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  • September 11, 2015

    Sugar free Sweets and Scotland

    It may not be not strictly about sugar free sweets but over the last few weeks while adding new sugar free candy to our range, I have found it interesting to learn about Scotland's sweet heritage. Scotland has a very distinct sweet...

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  • August 27, 2015

    Sweetener for Boiled sweets

    We have taken on a new range of sweets that use Isomalt as a sweetener. Isomalt is not only almost as sweet as sugar but also has a similar structure.  Like sugar it is stable at high temperatures which means...

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  • August 21, 2015

    Pretty New sweets

    Just taken delivery of a new range of sugar free sweets.  They look fantastic, don't they? Can't wait to taste them allReminds me of a sweetshop in Cambridge that used to make mosaics from sweets. I will be tasting them...

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