Love Hearts — DUMP
Munch or Dump rates Love Hearts by Swizzels DUMP — score 20/90.
Pressed sugar tablets dressed up as 'natural' — it's pure sugar plus a stack of acids, anti-caking agents and modified starch with effectively zero nutrition.
Why this verdict
- Sugar is the #1 and overwhelmingly dominant ingredient — basically empty calories
- Modified starch plus a stack of anti-caking agents (stearic acid, magnesium stearate, magnesium carbonate) mark it as industrial NOVA-4 confectionery
- 15 ingredients, almost all of them processing additives rather than food
- 'Natural colours' marketing hides that there's no nutrition here at all
Ingredients (14)
- Sugar (moderate) — Added sugar sitting ahead of cocoa; the main flavor driver here.
- malic acid (safe) — Sour/fizzy acid; harmless but signals candy, not food.
- Stearic Acid (moderate) — Anti-caking/release agent — a processing aid, not food.
- Sodium Bicarbonate (safe) — Baking soda, used to create the slight fizz; benign.
- modified starch (moderate) — Industrial thickener that signals a processed, NOVA-4 formulation.
- MAGNESIUM STEARATE (moderate) — Flow/anti-caking agent common in pressed tablets; a processing aid.
- Magnesium Carbonate (moderate) — Anti-caking agent to keep the powder free-flowing during pressing.
- Flavourings (moderate) — Unspecified flavour compounds; benign but add nothing nutritionally.
- Anthocyanin (safe) — Plant-derived colour (purple/red); naturally sourced.
- Beetroot red (safe) — Natural red colour from beetroot.
- Copper chlorophyllin (safe) — Natural green colour derived from chlorophyll.
- Curcumin (safe) — Natural yellow colour from turmeric.
- LUTEIN (safe) — Natural yellow/orange carotenoid colour.
- Paprika (safe) — Real pepper, neutral-to-positive.