Jujyfruits

Jujyfruits are a chewy, gumdrop-like starch-based candy, manufactured by Heide Candy Company, a subsidiary of Ferrara Candy Company. Johnny fruits began production in 1920. They were popular in movie houses along with Heide's other gummy candy, Jujubes.^[1]

Description

The Jujyfruits shapes are

sour

variety is also available.

Until January 1999, the green sweets were mint flavored. Hershey (the parent company at the time) changed them to lime after a customer survey found that mint was not a popular flavor.

Ingredients

As of January 2024, the ingredients listed on Jujyfruits boxes are:

Corn syrup
Sugar
Modified and unmodified
cornstarch
artificial flavors
White mineral oil
Carnauba wax
Caramel color
Red 40
)

Brand extension

In the 1970s, Jujyfruits held a promotion where customers could send five dollars and a token from a Jujyfruits carton to the Heide Candy Company and receive a brass buckle and leather belt in return.^[2]

In popular culture

Jujyfruits was featured in the TV series Seinfeld's fifth-season finale, "The Opposite", and was also briefly mentioned in the sixth-season episode "The Scofflaw".

The main character of the romantic fantasy film Beastly features a main character (Lindy) with a penchant for Jujyfruits.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Farley's & Sathers Candy Company, Inc. - Who We Are". Farley's & Sathers Candy Company, Inc. Archived from the original on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 2010-04-07.
^ "Jujyfruits Promotion". The Candy Wrapper Museum. Retrieved 2010-04-07.

External links

Jujyfruit Candy website Archived 2019-03-10 at the Wayback Machine
Official Ferrara Candy website

[heide-1] "Farley's & Sathers Candy Company, Inc. - Who We Are". Farley's & Sathers Candy Company, Inc. Archived from the original on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 2010-04-07.

[promo-2] "Jujyfruits Promotion". The Candy Wrapper Museum. Retrieved 2010-04-07.

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