How many calories are in a Quality Street and are they gluten free? | The Sun

QUALITY STREET are a guilty pleasure for everyone, especially when it's Christmas time and the family is opening a brand new box of the different-flavoured chocolates.

However, if you're trying to watch out for how many calories you consume, you might want to know how many calories your favourite chocolates have.

How many calories are in a Quality Street tub?

For every 100g of Quality Street chocolate that you eat, you consume 473 calories.

The Quality Street tub weighs 600g with at least 65 chocolates in it that vary from 12 different flavours.

If 100g equal 473 calories, that means that 600g would equal 2838 calories.

Some other nutrition facts included in 600g of Quality Street are:

  • Fat – 126g
  • Saturated fat – 72g
  • Energy – 11880kJ
  • Sodium – 528mg
  • Total Carbohydrate – 402g
  • Sugars – 348g
  • Protein – 18g

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How many Quality Streets are in a serving?

One Quality Street is estimated to have around 45 calories.

That means that one serving equals two sweets which would have 90 calories in total.

What Quality Street chocolate has the highest calories?

In a Quality Street tub, you'll find 12 different flavours, the newest one being the Lemon Zing.

Its calorie count is yet to be determined, however, we do have how many calories the other chocolates contain.

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The chocolate that contains the most calories is the Orange Creme, the largest chocolate in the tub at 11g with 52 calories.

The other chocolates have the following amount of calories:

  1. Coconut Eclair at 10.8g has 51 calories
  2. Strawberry Delight at 10.7g has 50 calories
  3. Fudge at 10.3g has 49 calories
  4. The Purple One at 9.5g has 45 calories
  5. Orange Chocolate Crunch at 9.4g has 44 calories
  6. Toffee Finger at 9.2g has 43 calories
  7. Caramel Swirl at 9g has 42 calories
  8. Milk Chocolate Block at 8.6g has 40 calories
  9. Green Triangle at 8g has 38 calories
  10. Toffee Penny at 6.5g has 31 calories

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Are Quality Street chocolates gluten free?

Quality Street chocolates are all gluten free.

Not only, but their matchmakers – Orange, Mint, Honeycomb and Salted Caramel – are also made available to gluten free consumers.

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