candies

Skittles

To look at the history of Skittles candy, it's not a bad idea to take a brief glance at the history of the Mars candy company.  Frank C. Mars and his wife Ethel started the Mars company back in 1911.  Well before this time, Frank was making candy with his Mom as a young boy.  Later, he and his wife Ethel began producing candy in their own kitchen.  It was from this humble beginning, that the huge Mars candy company has grown.  Today, Skittles are marketed through the Wrigley company which is a subsidiary of the Mars company.  

Now on to the history of Skittles candy...  Skittles were first sold in Europe starting around 1974.  In 1979, Skittles first started to be imported for sale in the United States.  They continued to be manufactured in Europe and exported to the US up until 1982.  At that point, the Skittles sold in the US also were produced in the US.  A wide variety of different flavors have been released over the years.  The "Original Fruit" variety of Skittles consists of the following flavors: Orange, Lemon, Lime, Grape, and Strawberry.  In 1989, a couple new flavors were introduced: Tropical and Wild Berry.  The next variety of Skittles was Sour and it was released in 2000.  It wasn't until 2009, that the dual flavor Crazy Cores Skittles were introduced.  More recently, the Fizzl'd Fruit flavor was introduced in 2010.  More than 200,000,000 individual Skittles are produced each day!  That's over 47,000 bags of Skittles each and every day.  Another interesting bit of Skittles candy trivia is the fact that it takes around 8 hours to put the candy coating on the outside of the fruit center.  The history of Skittles candy continues to be written as this popular candy is sold around the world .

The original skittles has five different fruit flavors that include grape, strawberry, lemon, lime and orange. Furthermore, Skittles has other varieties available that include Skittles Candies Tropical, Skittles Candies Original Flavor and Skittles Bite Size Candies Smoothie Mix. They feature smooth fruit combinations which include mango, peach pear and orange.

Skittles was extended with the release of Skittles Bubble Gum in the summer of 2004. In addition to the crunchy candy shell, the difference was the center having a fruit flavor and soft bubble gum. 

Skittles is easily eatable, it is an attractive candy which is wrapped in a colorful shell. The complete process of creating Skittles takes nearly 8 hours. First, the chewy center is created which is primarily made of sugar and other ingredients including fruit juice, citric acid, hydrogenated vegetable oil, natural & artificial flavors. When the center is completed, these centers are coated with a sugar flavored shell. This process is called panning. These shells are then polished and blended. The logo ‘s' is then printed on each candy. Finally it is packed and is ready for sale.

The marketing slogan ‘Taste the rainbow' is the identity of Skittles. Skittles has recently launched an internet marketing campaign in 2009 for promoting their candies in a more aggressive way on social networks including Twitter.com.  Skittles is sold today worldwide in more than 65 countries and is still one of the most popular and available candy brand. It is manufactured in the Czech Republic for European markets and in Victoria for markets in 

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Skittles Candy Ingredients

What the chewy delights are made of...

After biting into the have hard sugar shells Skittles Candy Ingredients are mainly sugar and hydrogenated vegetable oil along with fruit juice, citric acid and surprise-surprise lots and lots of natural and artificial flavors.

ORIGINAL:
SUGAR, CORN SYRUP, HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL, APPLE JUICE FROM CONCENTRATE, LESS THAN 2% - CITRIC ACID, DEXTRIN, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, COLORING (INCLUDES YELLOW 6 LAKE, RED 40 LAKE, YELLOW 5 LAKE, BLUE 2 LAKE, YELLOW 5, RED 40, YELLOW 6, BLUE 1 LAKE, BLUE 1), ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C).

WILD BERRY SKITTLES:
SUGAR, CORN SYRUP, HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL, FRUIT JUICE FROM CONCENTRATE (STRAWBERRY, CHERRY, RASPBERRY, GRAPE, BLACKBERRY), LESS THAN 2% - CITRIC ACID, DEXTRIN, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, ARTIFICIAL AND NATURAL FLAVORS, COLORING (INCLUDES RED 40 LAKE, BLUE 1 LAKE, BLUE 2 LAKE, RED 40, YELLOW 5 LAKE, YELLOW 5, BLUE 1, YELLOW 6), ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C). Product is not Kosher


TROPICAL:
SUGAR, CORN SYRUP, HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL, APPLE JUICE FROM CONCENTRATE, LESS THAN 2% - CITRIC ACID, DEXTRIN, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, COLORING (INCLUDES YELLOW 5 LAKE, YELLOW 6 LAKE, RED 40 LAKE, RED 40, YELLOW 5, YELLOW 6, BLUE 1 LAKE, BLUE 1),ARTIFICIAL AND NATURAL FLAVORS, ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C). Product is not Kosher.

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Nerds

Nerds are a form of candy currently sold by Nestlé under their Willy Wonka Candy Company brand. Nerds are essentially small irregularly-shaped bits of sugar crystal (similar to rock candy) which are covered in a thin variety of colored and flavored candy-coating. Nerds are produced in a variety of flavors and are usually sold in a box that has two flavors separated into distinct compartments, each with its own opening mechanism. Nerds are anthropomorphized on the cover of its distinctive box package. Larger-sized packages have been produced with an assortment of colors, sometimes branded "Rainbow Nerds".

Nerds were first launched in 1983 by a man named Kevin Ruby Deering, who was Brand Manager, eventually becoming Vice President of Marketing and Technical Services until he left in 1992. Robert Boutin led his team with the product development and commercialization of Nerds. Nerds became the "Candy of the Year" in 1985 by NCWA

Variety

Nerds are of varied flavors and color, ranging from extremely sweet to extremely sour; often the two flavours in one box will contrast, and a single flavour may even exhibit both extremes. They are thickly glazed with carnauba wax, which gives them a hard bite and a gloss. The nucleus of each candy is composed of one or more complete sucrose crystals. These optically clear monoclinic crystals are about 0.2–1 mm in length and help define the irregular shape.

A Nerds breakfast cereal based on this concept appeared in the 1980s, but had a short life.

Nerds (Pinktricity & Electro Orange)

Here are four of the regular flavors of Nerds sold today:

§  Strawberry/Grape (pink and purple)

§  Wild Cherry/Watermelon (orange/red and green)

§  Double Dipped Lemonade-Wild Cherry/Apple-Watermelon (red and yellow)

§  Sour - Lightning Lemon and Amped Apple (yellow and light green)

There are many other flavors available.

There are also several Nerds spin-off products by Willy Wonka:

§  Sour Nerds are normal sized Nerds, usually come in Lightning Lemon and Amped Apple, and are in a regular box. Also, a second flavor with Shocking Strawberry and Electric Blue was released.

§  Giant Chewy Nerds have a chewy jelly bean center with a bumpy, crunchy nerd shell. They are the same product as the jellybeans, but available year-round. Also known as "Future Nerds".

§  Nerds Rope consists of a soft candy string with a variety of Nerds attached to the outside. It comes in original, berry and tropical flavors. Nerds rope comes only one to a package but there are rumors that there may be two to a pack in the future.

§  Rainbow Nerds is a box of regular Nerds of multiple flavors, with no partition or organization.

§  Jumbo Nerds is a box of Nerds of multiple flavors which are much larger than regular Nerds. The box depicts one jumbo nerd on a teeter-totter with several regular sized nerds trying to counter its weight.

§  Nerds Gum Balls are bubble gum balls filled with multiple flavors of Nerds on the inside.

§  Theme Nerds are sometimes manufactured seasonally for holidays such as Halloween or Valentine's Day with names such as "Spooky Nerds". Flavors can include fruit punch,strawberry, and orange.

§  Nerds Cereal, a now discontinued breakfast cereal that, like the candy, featured two separated flavors to a box. The cereal came with a mail-in offer for a Nerds cereal bowl, which also could be divided in two like a standard Nerds box.

§  Techno-Nerds, a lesser-known variety, was composed of three compartments; green, blue, yellow, and multicolored.

§  Nerds Gum consisted of pieces that looked like regular Nerds, but were actually bubble gum. The box featured a Nerd floating away with a bubble gum bubble.

 
§  Dweebs, now discontinued, were a soft, chewy version kinda like nerds

released in the mid-1990s, that contained three separate flavors rather than two. Dweebs were available only for a short time.

§  Neon Nerds were introduced in 1996.

§  Nerd Jelly Beans, produced for Easter, are jelly beans with a coating of carnauba wax, which makes thetaste like Nerds.

§  Wonkalate, A UK-only chocolate bar which, aside from being purple unlike regular chocolate bars, had snozzberry-flavored Nerds put into it.

Throughout the 1980s several new flavors of Nerds were introduced from time to time; for example, "Hot and Cold" Nerds (cinnamon & wintergreen flavored), Blueberry and Raspberry, and Lemon and Lime.

Nerds were first created in 1976 at the original candy company, Breaker Confections in Itasca Illinois, a far west suburb of Chicago. One of the engineers, Ronald Salek Sr., would bring home samples for his children and their friends to taste-test. Nerds candy is named by one of Ron Jr.’s friends, Vivian Muñoz after test-tasting. All three high school students had cross-country nicknames; Ron Jr.’s nickname was “Sticks” after his thin legs, and Vivian Muñoz’s nickname was Taco, and Dave Neidra’s nickname was Nerd. Vivian jokingly suggested naming the candy Nerds, after Dave, and it stuck.

In 1971 Breaker Confection licensed the "Willy Wonka" name so it could be used as a merchandising tie-in for the movie. In 1980, Breaker Confections changed its name to Willy Wonka Brands. Nestlé then bought the company eight years later, in 1988


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Starburst

Starburst (originally known as Opal Fruits) is the brand name of a cuboid-shaped, fruit-flavoured soft taffy candy manufactured byThe Wrigley Company, a subsidiary of Mars, Incorporated. Starburst also exist as jellybeans (known as Joosters), lollipops,gummies, hard candy, candy canes, and lip gloss (the latter in a partnership with Lip Smackers).

History

The Starburst brand was introduced by Mars in the UK in 1959, named by Peter Pfeffer in a competition that won him £5, as Opal Fruits.The four original flavours were strawberry, lemon, orange, and lime. Lime was later replaced with cherry. In the 1970s Opal Fruits were well known for their advertising tag line "Opal Fruits - made to make your mouth water! Fresh with the tang of citrus. Orange! Lemon! Cherry! Strawberry!" (slogan coined by Murray Walkers). Opal Fruits were introduced in the United States in 1967 asStarburst. Originally, Starburst came in the same flavours as Opal Fruits and the first variant, "Sunshine Flavors", later renamed "Tropical Opal Fruits", was released thereafter. In Europe, lemon and lime were combined to become "Lemon and Lime" to make room for a Blackcurrant flavour. The brand name 'Opal Fruits' was phased out in the UK, followed by Ireland in 1998 in order to standardise the product in a globalised marketplace. In 2008, the supermarket chain Asda revived the original Opal Fruits in the UK for a period of 12 weeks starting May 10, 2008. On October 6, 2008, Mars acquired Wrigley, and transferred Mars' non-chocolate candy brands, including Starburst, to the Wrigley subsidiary.The original flavours are now branded "Original Fruits", and Starburst now comes in several assortments: Limited Edition Retro Fruits, Tropical, Baja California, Sour, Strawberry Mix, and Berries & Creme. Among the additional flavours are Kiwi, Banana, Plum, Passion Fruit, Raspberry, Strawberry-Banana, Mango, Melon, Tropical Punch, Green Apple,Blue Raspberry, Watermelon, Mixed Berries & Cream, Peaches & Cream, Orange Cream, and Strawberry & Cream. Europe also has the "Sour" assortment, which includes Apple, Cherry, Pineapple and Raspberry, as well as Strawberry Mix. As of early 2010 it was decided that Strawberry was the most popular flavour in the United Kingdom. Lime is also very popular within this demand.

Starburst in the UK is vegetarian, its packaging clearly stating "Suitable for Vegetarians". In the US, Starburst contains non-vegetarian gelatin in its ingredients.

Lime Starburst made a comeback in 2007 as a limited-edition 'retro' flavour in packages of the 'Baja' version, while the range in the UK was further extended with a version named Starburst Choozers. These lozenge shaped chews have a liquid fruit juice centre, and come packaged with the tag line "The chews that ooze." Each packet contains three flavours; Orange & Mango, Raspberry & Orange, and Pineapple & Orange.

Starburst engaged in a marketing tie-in for the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest by replacing Kiwi Banana and Tropical Punch with Royal Berry Punch.

The current slogan for Starburst in the U.S. is "It's A Juicy Contradiction and in the UK and Australia it is "Tastes Like Summer/Let Your Starburst Out."

Some time after June in the summer of 2009, Starburst discontinued their Baja California flavor worldwide due to low sales.

Ingredients

Made from real fruit juice and a good source of vitamin C!

Flavors

The original flavors were strawberry, lemon, orange, and lime. Today, they have many more flavors such as, strawberry banana, strawberry blueberry with yogurt, mango passionfruit, blueberry banana, strawberry lime, cherry lemon, blue raspberry, strawberry sour green apple, watermelon.

According to the official website, Starbursts is rumored to have inspired the pop art movement.

It would take 30 million packs of Starbursts to reach from New York to Los Angeles.

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Fun dip

Fun Dip is a candy manufactured by The Willy Wonka Candy Company, a brand owned by Nestlé. The candy has been on the market in the United States and Canada since April 1942, and was originally called Lik-M-Aid. It was originally manufactured by Sunline, Inc, through their Sunmark Brands division, which was purchased by Nestlé in January 1989. The candy was then rebranded as Fun Dip a brand change instituted by Jared Allen and Fredrick Nick, and added to the Willy Wonka product line.

Fun Dip is similar to fellow Wonka product Pixy Stix, but sold in small pouches, rather than paper or plastic straws. It generally consists of three packets of flavored and colored sugar, along with two edible marshmallow flavored candy sticks called "Lik-A-Stix". It is intended to be consumed by licking the sticks and using the moistened stick to collect some of the sugar. While the original flavors consisted of lime, cherry and grape, the most common flavors are cherry, grape, and araspberry/apple combination that turns from blue when dry to green when wet with saliva. It also comes in sour flavors, including sour watermelon, sour apple, and sour lemonade. There is also orange flavored Fun Dip. Packets with one stick and two flavors were once the standard, and packets with only one or two flavors are still available with less prominence than the now-standard three-flavor package.

The Lik-A-Stix were introduced in the 1970s. The stick resembles a flat stick of white sidewalk chalk. Recently, fruit-flavored sticks were introduced, unsuccessfully.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun_Dip

Laffy taffy

Laffy Taffy is a brand of taffy manufactured by Nestlé and sold under their Willy Wonka Candy Company brand. Laffy Taffy is a brand of candy first produced in the 1970s. The candies are small (about 1.5 oz or 45 g) individually wrapped taffy available in a variety of artificial fruit flavors, as well as a chocolate mousse flavor. The candy was advertised as having a "long-lasting" flavor. In 2003, Wonka introduced a variety called "Flavor Flippers", a piece of taffy that had a soft center with a different flavor.
The name refers to both the texture of the taffy as well as its embodiment of silliness; jokes are written on the inside of each wrapper. For example: "What do you call a cow with no legs? -- Ground Beef." Some jokes are pun-based, such as "What is Labor Day? -- That's when mommies have their babies." Other jokes are based on silly word play, such as "What's an owl's favorite subject? -- Owlgebra." These jokes are usually sent in by children who are credited on the wrapper. Laffy Taffy used to come in thick, square shaped pieces, but today, it is sold in thinner, rectangular shaped pieces.
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Sweet tarts

SweeTarts officially stylized as SweeTARTS) are sweet and sour candies invented by the owner of Sunline John Fish Smith in 1962. The tablets were created using the same basic recipe as the already popular Pixy Stix and Lik-M-Aid products, in response to parents' requests for a less-messy candy. In 1963, SweeTarts were introduced with the same flavours as the popular Pixy Stix: cherry, grape, lemon, lime, and orange.

The Sunline company was later bought by Rowntree Mackintosh, of the United Kingdom, which was, in turn, taken over by Nestlé. Nestlé rolled the SweeTarts family of candies into the already-existing Willy Wonka Candy Company family of brands

In 2001, Nestlé replaced the original lime with green apple. In 2009, Nestlé stopped making lemon (yellow). Also, the flavours are more tart now than in the past. The current flavours in the SweeTarts roll are: blue raspberry (blue), cherry (pink), grape (purple), orange (orange) and green apple (green). Retired flavours include lime (the former flavour for green) and lemon (yellow).

The name's gemination is appropriate to the wording "sweet tarts" even though the brand has only a single medial

SweeTarts also come in a variety of other products including gum, little SweeTarts (often packaged to be handed out as Halloween trick-or-treat candy), SweeTart "hearts" for Valentine's Day, "chicks and bunnies" shaped SweeTarts (marketed for Easter in some regions of the US), and Giant Chewy SweeTarts, which are a larger, chewier variant of SweeTarts that come 4 to a package, 1 of each flavour, and are the size of a silver dollar and 1/4 inch thick. The Giant Chewy SweeTarts have also retained the lemon (yellow) flavour discontinued in the standard SweeTarts products.