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Thursday, March 13, 2008
Smarties Jelly Beans
Just to make things clear, the package says, “Tangy Fruit Flavors” ... just in case people thought they were some other assortment of flavors associated with Smartie. They never actually say which fruits they are, though. Actually, I think Smartie are an ideal Easter candy, with their pastel colors and light flavors. I like Smartie. I like their lack of flavor, the way they dissolve so quickly and smoothly. I like their tiny tablet size, their light colors and complete indistinguishableness from one another. These jelly beans were about the same price as others are these days, retail of $1.99.
The shell is a dry and a little crumbly and cool on the tongue (as dextrose usually is). The shells have a tangy and flavorful layer. The flavors aren’t very strong or complex. Grape is the most vivid, in that grape soda way. Green apple is pretty mild. Blue tastes like ball point pen ink smells (I think it’s raspberry). Cherry is very tart and then very sweet but less bitter than most pink/red cherry candies. Lemon was probably the sweetest of the bunch. What was missing was the white Smartie, you know, that one that we all think is pineapple and is by far the best. (What? You don’t think so, too?) The colors are bright and opaque, rather like highlighter pens. The funny part is that Smartie actually makes their lack of color in their compressed dextrose tablets a selling point. From their website:
In the case of these little jelly beans, I think they’re using just as much dye as everyone else. Most of all I noticed the similarities between the Smartie Jelly Bean and the SweeTarts Jelly Beans.
The beans were essentially identical with the Smartie being slightly more flavorful, mostly in the tangy layer. The colors very little but the purple and the green are the easiest to tell apart by looking at them and the blue in the SweeTarts version is punch flavor, not raspberry. I really don’t have a preference of one over the other. If you have a choice, I say go with whichever is cheaper or whichever brand you feel you prefer to support. They’re both made in Canada and come in 14 ounce bags, though their ingredients label differs slightly ... so it’s entirely possible that this factory churns both out under contract with Nestle or CeDe Candy. While all of the Smartie compressed dextrose products are gluten, nut and milk free, the Smartie Jelly Beans are made in Canada and are made in a facility that processes all the hit-list allergens: peanuts, nuts, milk products, soy products, wheat, eggs and sesame seeds. Related Candies
POSTED BY Cybele AT 12:53 pm 
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>>Blue tastes like ball point pen ink smells (I think it’s raspberry)<<
your best description of a blue candy flavor to date
Bought these and was surprised at how good they taste. They really managed to capture the taste *and* feel of Smarties in a jelly bean. Not getting even an inkling of what “flavor” they all are though
. A nice change but really is there any jelly bean in the world that can stand up to the mighty Jelly Belly? I think not.
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