Fascinating Facts - JELLY BELLY®
- The Jelly Belly Beans are produced by Jelly Belly Candy Company.
- They were first introduced in1976 to the USA and in 1986 to the UK.
- There are 50 official unbelievably wonderful flavors.
- The most popular flavors are Very Cherry, Licorice, Green Apple, Coconut
- Buttered Popcorn, Watermelon, Cinnamon
- The newest flavors are The Mint Trio: Peppermint, Spearmint and Wintergreen
- "Rookie" Flavors are the New Jelly Belly beans that are introduced on a limited trial each year. If they prove sufficiently popular they replace four flavors at the bottom of the popularity league.
- It takes Seven to ten days usually but can be up to 21 days to create a single bean.
- The ingredients are Natural flavors used whenever possible, ie fruit purees in Raspberry, Blueberry and Peach; real peanut butter in Peanut Butter and real jalapeno pepper in Jalapeno Jelly Belly beans. Other primary ingredients are sugar, corn syrup, modified corn starch and confectioner's glaze.
- There are approximately 4 calories per bean; there is NO fat in Jelly Belly beans.
- Production Capacity is Over 2,000,000 beans per hour. Over 14 billion beans per year.
- The Difference from traditional jelly beans is that Standard jelly beans have no taste in the centre.Jelly Belly beans are flavored inside and in the shells. They are also smaller, have moreintense and exotic flavors than traditional beans and flavors are sold individually. Traditional beans are not made with natural ingredients, either.
- It is recommended that they are consumed one flavor at a time for the best taste.
- President Reagan had three and a half tons of Jelly Belly delivered to the White House for his inauguration party. And the astronauts on Space Shuttle Challenger insisted on their supply of Jelly Belly while they orbited the earth.
- When Jelly Belly first came to the UK, fans became so frustrated not to be able to purchase regular supplies; they started their own fan club. Now called THE TASTE BUD CLUB, it has over 45,000 members in the UK and USA.
- Over 14,000,000,000 Jelly Belly beans will be eaten worldwide in 2005 that’s enough to circle the earth 4 times.
- If all the Jelly Belly beans eaten in the last two years had been placed end to end, they would reach further than the moon (roughly 366,000 kilometres).