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An 8 oz bag of Sour Patch Kids is 192 g of sugar. The bag weighs 227 g. The label reads sugar, invert sugar, corn syrup and modified corn starch, then under 2% of tartaric acid, citric acid, natural and artificial flavor, Yellow 6, Red 40, Yellow 5 and Blue 1. The first 3 ingredients are sugar in 3 forms. Invert sugar is table sugar split into glucose and fructose so it stays soft and doesn't crystallize, and corn syrup does the same thing from the other direction. The starch is what makes it a gummy instead of a syrup. The sour is the under 2%. FDA's listing for tartaric acid describes it as a byproduct of wine manufacturing, the crust that forms inside wine tanks, scraped out, purified and ground to a powder. Most of the world's supply still comes from wineries. The rest, mostly made in China since the late 1990s, starts from maleic anhydride, a petrochemical, and a bacterial enzyme turns it into tartaric acid. Citric acid is the one grown on a mold. Both acids are in the sugar coating on the outside of the candy, which is why the bag says sour then sweet.