Gin gin's (Ginger candy)

Hi fellow IBS'ers

I usually post on the UC forum but wanted to cross over to share this. I also have IBS and have had no luck finding candy my gut would tolerate due to ingredients like sugar alcohols or citric acid. Oh yeah my gut also hates all types of fruit and most chocolate. That makes it very, very hard to eat candy or even most desserts.

I found these individually wrapped soft candy "gin gin's" in the bulk bin at a health food store and impulse bought them. Happy day, no IBS, actually the opposite, calm gut for hours afterward.

Anyone else tried them? Ginger is known for positive benefits and I cook with it whenever possible. But combining healthy food with candy=happiness. Yes I know sugar is not healthy but a little bit can be wonderful.

There are both hard candy and the soft type, I use the soft kind which has only three ingredients: ginger, cane sugar and tapioca starch. The pieces are pretty small.

The hard candy gin-gins have a different sugar, sucrose, and I'm not sure my IBS would like it (don't know for sure) so I stick to the soft type.

I guess you'd have to try one to see. I bought mine loose from a health store bin (they are ind. wrapped) so not a lot of $$ to find out for me. And last week a different store had small boxes of 10 gin-gins for 79 cents/box. Amazon's prices are high IMO so try local first. I live in a very small town and have 2 sources locally, one close and one 20 minutes away.