Sweets and candy

Yenzo has checked 11 products in this group, from Look-O-Look, Markenburg, Haribo and 6 other brands; on a Vietnamese pack the group is called “kẹo”. The ingredient list and the nutrition table of each product come from its own label — 2 from label photos checked by Yenzo and 9 from the open database Open Food Facts — and every product is rated with the same open formula the Yenzo app uses. Product names are given as printed on the pack, in Vietnamese, with a short English description in brackets.

On the Yenzo scale, 7 are rated “Sometimes” and 4 “Moderate”. Across these 11 products, the thing that most often pulls the rating down is sugar (10 of 11 products), followed by energy density (10) and ultra-processing (10). The ratings compare sweets and candy with each other by the same rules — which rank higher within the group — not whether to eat them. Each product's page lists the reasons behind its level, figure by figure, with the threshold each figure is measured against.