Candy Challenge – Foodwatch warns of these extreme sweets

The naschware is brightly colored and super sweet, super and great: “Candy Challenges”, in which people try through the most exotic and nastiest sweets, are a popular genre on YouTube and Tiktok. Manufacturers and dealers also use the entertainment factor of such videos to sell young people all sorts of questionable “extreme cany”.

The consumer organization Foodwatch has looked at what is in the most imported goods that are marketed via social media, but are also available in “Candy Shops” in many pedestrian zones. The result makes you laugh, because in many Candys there are health -hazardous ingredients. “Many of the sweets and snacks are the purest additive cocktails,” explains Foodwatch.

Ingredients with up to 20 e numbers are not uncommon, the Foodwatch market check showed. Behind some of these additives are hidden in azora color that are suspected of being carcinogenic and triggering pseudo -allergies. Because they are also suspected of triggering hyperactivity and attention disorders, sweets with azora colors in the EU have only been sold with warning for years. The Hamburg Consumer Center recommends avoiding products with these fabrics.

Foodwatch also found other potentially carcinogenic or other critical additives. The high acidity of some products can also attack the teeth. Many of the products examined by Foodwatch were also not correctly marked. Ingredients were missing, were incomplete or only printed in Japanese. Additions were incorrectly translated, the prescribed warning was missing.

“The candy trend has long been no longer a funny youth phenomenon, but a serious danger for minors,” says Foodwatch expert Luise Molling. It demands that the products marketed via Tikok and Co. are checked more seamlessly by German authorities and removed from the market if necessary.