Old Fashioned Hard Candies — DUMP

Name: Old Fashioned Hard Candies
Brand: F. B. Washburn Candy Corp.

Munch or Dump rates Old Fashioned Hard Candies by F. B. Washburn Candy Corp. DUMP — score 17/90.

Sugar and corn syrup tinted with a full stack of artificial dyes (Yellow #5, #6, Blue #1, Red #3, Red #40) and artificial flavors. Pure sweet, zero nutrition.

Why this verdict

Sugar and corn syrup are the entire base — straight added sugar
Five artificial dyes stacked: Yellow #5, Yellow #6, Blue #1, Red #3, Red #40
Red #3 is a dye the FDA moved to ban from food over cancer concerns
Artificial flavors and zero nutritional value

Ingredients (8)

Sugar (moderate) — Added for sweetness, can contribute to calorie content.
Corn Syrup (caution) — Added sugar baked into the crust.
Natural and Artificial Flavors (caution) — Undisclosed lab flavoring - the artificial half signals engineering.
Yellow 5 (tartrazine) (caution) — Synthetic petroleum-derived dye linked to hyperactivity sensitivity in some children.
yellow 6 (avoid) — Synthetic azo dye used purely for color.
blue 1 (avoid) — Artificial dye used to tune color; no nutritional role.
Red #3 (Erythrosine) (harmful) — Dye the FDA moved to ban from food in 2025 over cancer concerns in animal studies.
red 40 (avoid) — Artificial petroleum-derived dye with no purpose in a brown chocolate product; a decisive negative.