name: Fruit Gum

flavor_db_name_variants: fruit gum

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Fruit gum

id: 677

name_scientific: null

description: Rowntree's Fruit Gums are circular sweets formerly made by Rowntree's, who were later acquired by Nestlé. They appear in different colours, each with a different flavour: strawberry, orange, lemon, blackcurrant and lime. The sweets were first introduced in 1893, and originally marketed as Rowntree's Clear Gums - "The nation's favourite sweet" - and were available in twopenny tubes and sixpenny packets. They are primarily composed of glucose syrup and fruit juices and are as a result similar to wine gums. In addition to the traditional roll packaging, they come in a larger volume box, that contains the sweets in the shape of the fruit or part of the fruit that the flavour represents. Originally the purple fruit gums were blueberry, but this changed to blackcurrant in the 1990s.

itis_id: null

wikipedia_id: Fruit_Gums

picture_file_name: 699.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 53944

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:38:43.000Z

legacy_id: null

food_group: Confectioneries

food_subgroup: Candies

food_type: Type 2

created_at: 2011-12-07T00:12:29.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:05:29.000Z

creator_id: 2

updater_id: 2

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: null

export_to_foodb: false

public_id: FOOD00677