Are Maynards Wine Gums Low In Syns? Can I Eat Them On Slimming World? (Our Unofficial Syn Guide)

If you're a lover of chewy candies, Maynard's Wine Gums are probably one of your favourite choices, but like many sweets, these can be high in syns on the slimming world plan due to their high sugar content.

Maynard wine gums have 12.5 syns for a whole 52g serving or around 0.5 syns per wine gum, making them low in syns, but only if consumed within moderation.

In our short syn guide below, to help you make smarter choices when it comes to satisfying your candy cravings, we've gone into how many wine gums you can have on the SW plan, syn values and some low syn alternatives.

How Many Maynard Wine Gums Can I Have On Slimming World?

At around 0.5 syns per candy, you can have up to thirty Maynard wine gums on the Slimming World plan before using all of your 15 syn daily allowances.

These wine gums are high in syns due to their sugar content, having around 1g of sugar per one; we, therefore, recommend having them in moderation. It should be noted that a roll used around 12.5 syns is the majority of your 15 syn daily allowances.

Syn Values Of Maynard Wine Gums

Maynard has a wide range of wine gum sweets on offer with varying syn values; we've listed them below so that you can keep track of syns.

• Original (52g bag or roll pack) - 12.5 Syns.
•  Juicy Squirts (46g bag or roll pack) - 11.5 Syns.
•  Sour Wine Gums (52g bag or roll pack) - 12.5 Syns.
•  Fizzy Fish (52g bag or roll pack) - 12.5 Syns.
•  Dessert Flavours (52g bag or roll pack) - 12.5 Syns.
•  Tropical (52g bag or roll pack) - 12.5 Syns.

Low Syn Alternatives To Maynard Wine Gums

If you find Maynard wine gums too high in sugar, we've got a few low-syn alternatives below, which might be more suitable for craving something sweet.

• Hartley's 10 Cal Mango & Passion Fruit Flavour Jelly 175g - 0.5 syns.
•  Hartley's Sugar Free Blackcurrant Flavour Jelly 2 x 11.5g - 0.5 syns.
•  HARIBO Tangfastics Bag 16g - 3 syns.
•  Maynards Bassetts Jelly Babies Sweets Bag 190g - 4.5 syns.
•  M&S Percy Pigs Sweets 170g - 1.5 syns.
•  Skittles Fruits Sweets £0.15 PMP Bag 18g - 8 syns.
•  Rowntree's Jelly Tots Sweets Sharing Bag 150g - 2 syns for 7.
•  Swizzels Drumstick Squashies Giant Cookie 308g - 8 syns.
•  Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles Vegan-Friendly Strawberry & Blackcurrant Sweets Sharing Pouch 150g - 5 syns for 7.
•  Skittles Crazy Sours Sweets Pouch Bag 152g - 7.5 syns.
•  Aldi Dominion Fruit Chews Sweets 450g - 5 syns for 4.
•  Candy Kittens Wild Strawberry Gourmet Sweets 125g - 7 syns for 25g.
•  Hartley's Lemon & Lime Flavour Jelly Sugar-Free Twin Pack 23g - 0.5 syns.

Last Words

Overall, Maynard's wine gums are good low-syn sweet treats as long as you are mindful of how many you have on the plan; a roll will use 12.5 syns, while one will use 1 syn. Unfortunately, these sweets are also high in sugar.

To save syns, we recommend checking out our list of some sugar-free low-syn sweets to satisfy your cravings without consuming as much sugar in your diet.