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! 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… 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. 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?

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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. 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 Minties 'Minties' is a brand of confectionery originating in Australia and manufactured in both Australia and New Zealand for their respective…British painter Sarah Graham was born in Hitchin, England in 1977 and works mostly with oil on canvas.She completed a BA (hons) in Fine Art from De Montfort University in Leicester 2000, and has been pursuing her passion ever since. From 2001 - 2007 she exhibited her work at independent art galleries and art fairs in the UK and overseas. Graham signed with a major UK fine art publisher in 2007 before her work became widely available as limited edition prints, alongside originals throughout the UK. 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. 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. In medieval and Victorian times, sweets were treats for adults, but somewhere along the way the focus shifted to children, says Charrington-Hollins. Thanks to our memories of crunching Kola Kubes and feasting on toffees, our love for certain sweets continues even when we leave childhood behind, she says. “People get very protective about products remaining the same because it’s part of their childhood.” By 1981 Trebor was the UK’s leading maker of children’s sugar confectionery, selling 2.5m sweets each day and now sold over half the mints bought in Britain.

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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. 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.

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. Pressure group Action on Sugar wants similar rules to be applied to sweets and chocolate, with a ban on multibuy promotions, and a 20 per cent levy on all confectionery. Last week’s sugar tax added up to 24 pence per litre on fizzy drinks sold in the UK, as part of a government initiative to reduce obesity.