Before giving a treat to your child, wait ... do you know what they are made of?

They are attractive, tasty, full of color and smell great. They have different forms: worm, fried egg, banana, heart, strawberry, bear, flower ... The offer is immense. Do you already know what we are talking about? Yes, they are the goodies and after that striking appearance there are some ingredie

They are attractive, tasty, full of color and smell great. They have different forms: worm, fried egg, banana, heart, strawberry, bear, flower ... The offer is immense.

Do you already know what we are talking about? Yes, they are the goodies and after that striking appearance there are some ingredients that you can not imagine. In their manufacture they intervene from the feared sugars to animal ingredients from the sheep or pig: skin, joints and marrow among them.

What are the jelly beans that our children eat made of?

When we enter a candy store, we feel hopelessly attracted, that showcase full of small boats containing sweets of different sizes and colors is an insurmountable claim. Even its smell is perceived before reaching them. We take a small transparent bag, fill it and give it to our children while we fall into the temptation without remedy. However, have we seen what they are made of? Who made them? What ingredients do they contain? In many places the regulation is quite lax, and it is not mandatory that it is a seller who dispenses them, nor that they have to be exposed in a certain way or that they have to attach product information: manufacturer, name or list of ingredients. In this way, we do not know everything about a simple candy.

Maybe you have never considered that when you eat a candy or buy your child a colorful bag of these trinkets you are ingesting animal products, but that's the way it is. The main compounds of the sweets are

sugars, glucose syrup or fructose and gelatin

. Also, of course, colorants are added, which in some cases are natural. This soft and rubbery texture that is unmade when chewing or sucking is achieved with the mixture of these three main ingredients. The point is that these gelatins that they add are of animal origin.The parts with which they are manufactured are the marrow, joints, cartilage and skins.

Yes, when eating a treat, we are taking pig skin. Starches are also added, either potato starch or corn starch

; additives, such as flavor enhancers or colorants; and even vegetable oilor beeswax, to get shine. Each treat has an extra that gives it a characteristic flavor. Now, what do you know, that the jelly that you buy from your children is delicious and irresistible, but besides the dreaded sugars, they are made with bovine and porcine waste materials, will you eat them again? your children?