{"product_id":"les-bonbons-coeur","title":"Corazones de Caramelo","description":"\u003cp\u003eHeart-shaped fruit sweets from Sophie M, flavoured with \u003cstrong\u003enatural fruit extracts\u003c\/strong\u003e and set with \u003cstrong\u003efruit pectin rather than gelatine\u003c\/strong\u003e. Organic, made in France, in an 80 g clip-top tin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThese are made to be given\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe shape says so, and so does the tin. A clip-top tin can be handed over exactly as it is — no wrapping, no gift bag, no ribbon — and it is still there a year later holding paperclips or hairgrips. That is the whole design of the thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey sit in a useful gap: more considered than a bar of chocolate, less committal than flowers, and small enough to bring to someone's house without it becoming an event.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe reason they work as a gift when you do not know the person well\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the practical case, and it is stronger than it sounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVegan, lactose-free, gluten-free and organic\u003c\/strong\u003e covers most of the things you would otherwise have to ask about — and asking someone about their diet before giving them a present rather defeats the purpose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe one that matters most in confectionery is the \u003cstrong\u003egelatine\u003c\/strong\u003e. Gelatine is collagen boiled out of pig or cattle hide and bone, and it is in almost every gum sweet sold. That single ingredient rules ordinary sweets out for vegans, for vegetarians, and for anyone eating halal or kosher. \u003cstrong\u003ePectin — a plant fibre from apple pomace and citrus peel — removes the problem entirely.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne honest qualification: “free from” on a label is a recipe statement, not a guarantee about the room the sweets were made in. \u003cstrong\u003eIf you are buying for someone with a diagnosed allergy rather than a dietary preference, read the tin's own allergen statement\u003c\/strong\u003e, which will say what else the workshop handles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat pectin does to the sweet itself\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is not only an ethical substitution — it changes the eating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGelatine is \u003cstrong\u003eelastic\u003c\/strong\u003e: it stretches, it bounces, it has to be chewed down. Pectin is \u003cstrong\u003eshort\u003c\/strong\u003e: it gives cleanly under the teeth and then melts. The consequence is that the fruit flavour arrives immediately rather than emerging slowly from beneath the sugar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePectin also belongs in a fruit sweet for a reason of chemistry: \u003cstrong\u003eit only sets in the presence of acid and sugar\u003c\/strong\u003e, which is exactly what fruit brings. It is the same reaction that sets jam.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy they are not lurid\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause the colour is fruit and plant extract. Six synthetic colours common in confectionery must, under European law, carry the warning \u003cem\u003e“may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children”\u003c\/em\u003e — and \u003cstrong\u003eorganic certification permits none of them\u003c\/strong\u003e, nor artificial sweeteners or synthetic flavourings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNatural colours are softer, deeper and less uniform, and they fade in sunlight where synthetic dyes do not. A tin left in a bright window will lose colour; that is a sign of what is in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003ePractical notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey are sweets, and organic changes what is in them rather than what they are. Sugar is sugar, and soft sweets cling to teeth — not last thing at night.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSmall children:\u003c\/strong\u003e whole sweets are a choking hazard for the very young. Cut them up or wait.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eStorage\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCool, dry, clip closed, out of direct sun. Pectin sweets dry out in an open bag within days and go tacky in humidity — the tin is doing real work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sophie m","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56105118892356,"sku":null,"price":3.79,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/5772\/4228\/files\/les-bonbons-coeur-9801072.png?v=1787323759","url":"https:\/\/soverde.pt\/es\/products\/les-bonbons-coeur","provider":"Só Verde","version":"1.0","type":"link"}