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| Jelly
Babies were originally called Peace Babies when they were made
by Basset’s in celebration the end of the First World War.
Production stopped during Second World War but returned in 1953
renamed Jelly babies. |
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| In
1989 Jelly babies were given a more streetwise look. Each of
the six Jelly Babies - who live in a wibberly wobberly world
of their own - was given a name and character; they are: |
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Bonny
- Pink,
who wears a nappy and frilly bonnet
Boofuls
- Blue,
who is always crying
Bumper
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Green,
clumsy with a funny shape, and wears a bum-bag
Bubbles
– Yellow,
a female, has a ponytail
Big
Heart - Black/Grey,
wears trainers
Brilliant
–
Red, the
leader of the gang, and wears green baseball boots
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| Legal
description: Fruit flavoured jelly confectionary with natural
colours and flavours |
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Ingredients:
Wheat glucose syrup, sugar, water, starch (maize and wheat),
gelatine, food acids (citric acid, malic acid), vegetable
fat, natural flavours, natural colours (turmeric, carmine,
chlorophyll, carotene, paprika oleoresin, anthocyanins)
Nutritional Information:
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Servings
per package
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4
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Serving
size
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45g
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Per
serving
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Per
100g
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Energy
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617kJ
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1370kJ
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Protein
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1.4g
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3.2g
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Fat
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0.1g
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0.3g
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Includes
saturated fat
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0.1g
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0.2g
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Carbohydrate
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34.4g
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76.4g
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Includes
Sugars
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24.5g
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54.5g
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Sodium
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32mg
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70mg
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Research
has discovered that women who have children were more likely
to bite the heads off first, where those without children
ate them whole. No great psychological conclusions have been
drawn from this.
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| In
blindfold taste tests, the most popular flavour was strawberry,
followed by lime, blackcurrant, lemon, raspberry, and orange.
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| Three
million Jelly Babies are eaten every week. They are permanent
contenders in the Top 20 sweeties chart, with sales of 14 million
pounds a year. |
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MP
Bernie Grant was accused of wanting black Jelly Babies banned
as he claimed they were racist. (How innocent little sweets
can be racist, I’ve yet to comprehend, do sweets have minds?) |
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Dr
Who, as played by Tom Baker with his long scarf favoured Jelly
Babies, maybe if he shared them with the Darleks, they would
have been less hostile. |
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