Gummy candy is the broad family of soft, chewy, fruit-flavoured sweets set with a gelling agent into springy, translucent shapes — gummy bears and worms, wine gums, gumdrops, jelly babies, fruit pastilles and Turkish-style pastes. Built from sugar, glucose syrup and gelatine (or a vegetarian gel such as pectin or starch), they are among the most universally recognised confections on earth, sold everywhere from pick-and-mix counters to pharmacy vitamin aisles.