One of the things we always recognised is that people do buy with their eyes so we need to make sure that what they see tastes as good as they expect,” Fretwell tells me – something my attempt at Dolly Mix, purple with an overpowering mango flavour, doesn’t quite achieve. Confectionery classics with a twist This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Everyone loves a sweet treat now and again, but traditional sweets provide no nutrition, only calories from sugars – and the type that we should be cutting down on. Three sweets (26g) will provide 20g sugar – that is 67 per cent of your daily maximum free sugar allowance.” Minties 'Minties' is a brand of confectionery originating in Australia and manufactured in both Australia and New Zealand for their respective… That might explain why research conducted by its parent company revealed that 75 per cent of shoppers have fond memories of the Barratt brand, with adults often indulging in the sweets they enjoyed in their youth to escape the grind of adult life. We have fond memories of brands such as Barratt and Bassett, creators of the famous Liquorice Allsorts (Photo: Museums Sheffield) A taste of nostalgia

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Nothing will ever beat the classic Bassetts Liquorice Allsorts! In 1899, a confectionary sale representative dropped a tray of the liquorice delights and mixed them all up (when scrambling them off of the floor to save them). Intrigued by the jumbled-up colourful creation, Bassetts started manufacturing their allsorts on a mass scale and they've been around ever since! Are you a fan? Glucose syrup, Sugar, Palm Oil, Colour (Vegetable Carbon), Hydrolysed Pea Protein, Citric Acid, Aniseed Oil, Acidity Regulator ( Trisodium citrate). [2] Forever a favourite with children and adults alike - White Mice is a chocolate treat that nobody can refuse. The smooth and creamy white chocolate texture is hard to beat. We also available have pink and white mice /large-pink-white-mice for a unique and fun strawberry twist or traditional sugar mice /sugar-mice for a true retro classic. These morish mice will always be a fun one to eat! UK adults eat around 60g of sugar per day, with teenagers consuming as much as 75g. Public Health England says that anybody over 11 should only eat around 30g, or seven sugar cubes, a day. With St George's Day right around the corner on Friday 23rd April, why not celebrate the patron saint of England with our favourite traditional English confectionaries that we all know and love. We're sure that George would probably have a sweet tooth himself and so here are just a few of the sweets that you'll remember from your childhood and that you can still buy at AQuarterOf.co.uk today

Space Dust Nobody ate Space Dust because it tasted nice. In fact, most people probably couldn't tell you what it tasted like. It wasn't… Wine Gums have been a household name for years and were first invented over 100 years ago! In contrast to their name, Wine Gums contain no alcohol, but each coloured sweet is named after a type of wine. Wine Gums are traditionally made in 5 shapes: kidney, crown, rhombus, circle, and oblong (and also in a variety of colours). Which is your favourite shape and colour?

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Goblin Teasmade Now a mid-20th century icon, the Goblin Teasmade - which first appeared in 1936 - was one of the first… Some are confused over which products come under the tax. McDonald’s has added 12p to the price of a medium Coca-Cola, which contains 42g of sugar. But Fanta – which has recently changed its recipe – and low-sugar Coke Zero, Diet Coke, and Sprite, remain the same price. Nothing is more nostalgic than these melt-in-the-mouth Raspberry-flavoured shrimp-shaped delights. If you have never had these - don't worry, they don't taste like seafood! Nothing compares to the iconic Bassetts Shrimp. Do you chew yours or let them melt on your tongue a bit first? Pink Shrimps have always been an incredibly moreish sweet. During the 1960s Trebor sold well around the world. North America, Europe, Asia and Australasia all performed strongly. Thanks to this export success, the firm won one of the first Queen’s Awards for Industry.Runts – the candy sweet that looks like fruit, making some kids feel like they are getting their 5-a-day whilst rotting their teeth. Well that’s what the tagline should have been. Another of Willy Wonka’s creations (actually Nestle, but they obtained the Charlie and the Chocolate factories rights). These provided a tangy citrus like flavour when you bit into one of these beauties. You can still find them in some of those annoying 20p in and twist machines – which never give you enough sweets for your dollar. Sherbet Fountain The transformation. Nevertheless, the fact remains that sugar causes health problems. Registered dietitian Helen Bond says: “A spoonful of sugar here and there may seem harmless, but it soon adds up and can boost your daily [energy] calorie intake, and cause dental disease in children. So there are our best traditional English sweets. perhaps we've reminded you of a retro childhood favourite or we've introduced you to a new favourite? New Coke "New Coke" almost spelt the end for the Coca-Cola empire in 1985. They changed the flavour of Coke and the…

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On top of impressing an eclectic audience of adults on a trip down memory lane and children on the hunt for the next on-trend treat brands such as Barratt also have to make sure their sweets are appropriate in our sugar-conscious era. That involves a delicate balance between doing their bit to lower sugar content while still making sure people feel they are having a treat. For the sake of our waistlines and health, Public Health England (PHE) recommends we should be halving the amount of added or newly termed ‘free sugars’ [sugar that’s been added to food by you or a manufacturer, as well as natural sugars you get in honey, syrups and unsweetened fruit juice] we’re consuming to no more than 5 per cent of our daily calories – that’s around 30g of sugar (or about 7 teaspoons) a day for adults, and less for children, depending on their age. Her paintings are now in private collections across the world, in Europe, the USA, Australia, the Middle East, China and South Africa.

Balancing nostalgia and people’s reluctance to let go of their childhood favourites with the need to win over a brand new audience is a task for Fretwell and his team. Yet that challenge has not stopped them trying twists on tried and tested classics, such as a new Sour Apple dip dab that riffs on the old-school version, to mark the relaunch. But more than one in five adults eat these bags alone, and more than a third of 16 to 24 year olds. Sno-Cone Machines In 1967, Hasbro introduced its little icy treat factories to sweaty summer cities and suburbs everywhere. The Frosty Sno-Man Sno-Cone…