Swedish berries are red (and occasionally blue) berry-shaped soft chewy candy. The name Swedish Berries is trademarked by Maynards Candy, a division of Cadbury Canada. Their ingredients include sugar

Sugar

Sugar is a class of edible crystalline carbohydrates, mainly sucrose, lactose, and fructose, characterized by a sweet flavor.Sucrose in its refined form primarily comes from sugar cane and sugar beet...

, glucose syrup

Glucose syrup

Glucose syrup is a food syrup, made from the hydrolysis of starch. Maize is commonly used as the source of the starch in the USA, in which case the syrup is called "corn syrup", but glucose syrup is also made from other starch crops, including potatoes, wheat, barley, rice and cassavap.21...

, modified corn starch, citric acid

Citric acid

Citric acid is a weak organic acid. It is a natural preservative/conservative and is also used to add an acidic, or sour, taste to foods and soft drinks...

, artificial flavours, mineral oil

Mineral oil

A mineral oil is any of various colorless, odorless, light mixtures of alkanes in the C15 to C40 range from a non-vegetable source, particularly a distillate of petroleum....

, carnauba wax

Carnauba wax

Carnauba , also called Brazil wax and palm wax, is a wax of the leaves of the palm Copernicia prunifera, a plant native to and grown only in the northeastern Brazilian states of Piauí, Ceará, and Rio Grande do Norte. It is known as "queen of waxes" and usually comes in the form of hard yellow-brown...

, colour, and concentrated pear juice.

Swedish Berries are similar in taste and consistency to Swedish Fish

Swedish Fish

Swedish Fish is a type of chewy fish-shaped candy. It has been developed with special flavors specifically for the North American market by the Swedish candy producer Malaco, which exports products to North America.-History:...

, another Maynards product.

Production of Swedish Berries has been discontinued in the U.S. It is possible to purchase Maynards Swedish Berries in Canada.