Caring Candies were developed in 2002 by my husband, Neil and I (Denise), a South African couple with two young children, and out of sheer desperation at the lack of healthy treats available in our country.

SUGAR-FREE DIET

At the time Neil was working as an Accountant and I ran my own web design business. After consulting with a local Homeopath, I was put onto a strict diet, which excluded (among other things) sugar. All the sugarfree products on the market were full of synthetic ingredients like artificial sweeteners, artificial colourants and preservatives and caused me to have heart palpitations.

We threw ourselves whole-heartedly into researching alternatives for my sugar-cravings. Neil developed our first sugarfree sweets on our kitchen stove and once the taste was to our satisfaction we tried them on friends and family and of course our most demanding critics; our children. By also using a test group of non-diabetic or non sugar-intolerant individuals we knew that if they liked the taste, then we had a winner on our hands.

HERBAL RANGE

Our initial range, Caring Candies Sugarfree “Naturals” were herbally-flavoured candies with flavours such as raspberry (general tonic, detox), Lemon (nausea, digestion), Liquorice (low blood pressure, chest infections), ginger (nausea, constipation, digestion), and Lavender mints (high blood pressure, calming, soothing).

PALATINIT AWARD

Our real stamp of approval came at the Annual Palatinit inhouse sugar-free meeting held in Milan Italy, where we were awarded the prize for “Best Product 2004”.

WE'VE MOVED

In May 2008 we moved into factory premises in Montague Gardens and within 4 months, had outgrown it. In December 2008 we moved into much larger factory premises in Montague Gardens, which is where we are currently.

EXPANDING THE RANGE

Following the success of our “Naturals” range, Caring Candies Sugarfree “Sourz” were added to the range offering an assortment of Sour Apple, Sour Cherry, Sour Tangerine & Sour Lemon flavours.

Our range currently consists of 22 amazing flavours!

YUMMY CHOCOLATE

In 2009 we began developing the most unbelievable sucrose-free real milk diabetic chocolate.

STARTING YOUNG

Our 10-year old son, who was visiting our factory during the school holidays, came up with the novel idea to crush our peppermint bonbons and sprinkle them into the chocolate - and thus our "FRESH MINT" chocolate was developed.

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best product 2004 award  |  factoryshop