About Sponge Candy ingredients
If you have a question about Sponge Candy ingredients, nutrition information or food allergens not covered here, please contact us. We’ll get back to you, pronto.
Common questions concerning Sponge Candy ingredients, food allergens and nutrition information (links to answers down this page):
Other FAQs about other stuff (links to other pages):
What is your Sponge Candy made from?
Our Milk Chocolate Sponge Candy ingredients declaration:
Ingredients: sugar, corn syrup, cocoa butter, milk, chocolate liquor, soy lecithin, sodium bicarbonate, gelatin & vanillin. Contains milk & soybeans. Made with equipment which is also used to make products containing milk, eggs, soy, tree nuts (almonds, brazil nuts, cashews, macadamia nuts, pecans, walnuts), peanuts & wheat.
Our Dark Chocolate Sponge Candy ingredients declaration:
Ingredients: sugar, corn syrup, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, soy lecithin, sodium bicarbonate, gelatin, milk & vanillin. Contains milk & soybeans. Made with equipment which is also used to make products containing milk, eggs, soy, tree nuts (almonds, brazil nuts, cashews, macadamia nuts, pecans, walnuts), peanuts & wheat.
Do you have nutrition information for your Sponge Candy?
We are a very small candy kitchen with only our one attached retail store and we do not wholesale our candy so we are exempt from the federal nutrition label requirement on our packaging. Nevertheless, sometimes that information can be useful. Keep in mind that our piece size and weight varies along with the center to coating ratio so think of this as an approximation:
Serving size: 2 pieces (35 gm, 1.25 oz.)
Servings per container: 13 (approximate for 1 pound box)
Calories: 180
Calories from fat: 80
Amount/Serving……….%DV*
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Total Fat: 9g
Saturated fat: 4g……….14%
Trans Fat: 0g
Cholesterol: 5mg………….2%
Sodium: 65mg……………..3%
Total Carb.: 24g…………..8%
Dietary Fiber: 1g………..2%
Sugars: 20g
Protein: 1g
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Vitamin A…………………..0%
Vitamin C…………………..0%
Calcium…………………….2%
Iron…………………………2%
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*Percent Daily Values (DV)
are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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Which chocolate do you use?
We use a mix of Wilbur’s Cashmere and Sable for our milk chocolate Sponge Candy. For our dark chocolate Sponge Candy we use Wilbur’s Brandywine. Want to know more?
Is your Sponge Candy made from any animal products and specifically pork?
Yes. Gelatin is an animal product along with milk. We have checked with our supplier and the gelatin we use is a pork product.
Is your Sponge Candy made with any of the major food allergens?
Yes. Our Sponge Candy contains milk and soy. We also include in the ingredient declaration’s last sentence all those major food allergen ingredients that we use in other products that we make which the Sponge Candy is likely exposed to such as milk, eggs, soy, tree nuts (almonds, brazil nuts, cashews, macadamia nuts, pecans, walnuts), peanuts & wheat.
Can I safely eat your Sponge Candy if I have a I have an allergic reaction to [name a major food allergen]?
In a word: NO. There’s no way we can make a food allergen-free center in our small candy kitchens as long as we are processing food allergen ingredients. Not only are we unable to reliably separate center preparation into allergen and non-allergen, but also our enrober lines (machines that chocolate coat the centers) are shared and therefore contain food allergens. The only major food allergen that isn’t likely to pass through our candy kitchens is shellfish.
I have a serious allergy to another food ingredient that’s not one of the major food allergens. Can you tell me if you make any products containing this specific ingredient?
Maybe, but not with a reliable certainty. While 90% of all food allergies are due to the 8 major food allergens, the other 10% of food allergies are due to more than 250 different food allergens. As the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act of 2004 has taken effect as of January 1, 2006, we can expect to see an improved labeling of ingredients eventually from our vendors. Hopefully everyone will be reviewing their ingredients declarations and revising them in light of the new regulations but anyone with a life threatening food allergy should not eat Sponge Candy.
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