If you've been a kid, you've had a Dum Dum sucker -- the giveaway candy of choice for offices across the country. They taste great and are just big enough for little hands, but are loaded with artificial ingredients. The ingredients according to Spanglers web site, include:
Doesn't that put a smile on your face? I purchased a resealable bag of 50+ lollipops at my local grocery store for $4.99. If they can't be found by you, try Amazon or buy direct from Yummy Earth. Note that they also sell gummy bears/worms, sour beans, candy drops, and artisan candies now too!
The Yummy Earth flavors include: wet-face watermelon, too berry blueberry, sour apple tart, pomegranate pucker, mango tango, googly grape, strawberry smash, and very very cherry.
To the families and businesses out there -- we can now do better! Our kids can have chemical free treats! Adults love them too! These are the best tasting lollipops I have ever had!
"Sugar, Corn Syrup, Citric Acid, Malic Acid, Salt, Artificial Flavor, Color Added (Includes Red 40, Yellow 6, Yellow 5, Blue 1). There is a trace amount of soy oil in the lubricant that we use in our cooking kettles. This soy oil has been refined, bleached, and deodorized and all of the proteins have been removed."
Our family was at a consignment store earlier this summer when the clerk asked if she could give the kids a sucker -- the corporate world's pacifier of choice. Most hard candy in our house gets tossed, so I cringe with these offers of chemical-laden kindness, but decided to allow it this time. To my delight, she handed them an organic Yummy Earth Lollipop.
Why hadn't I thought of this? I looked up the company when I got home and discovered that two guys with children -- who wanted something better for them -- set out to make a naturally colored and flavored candy and succeeded. Here is there story:
The best part (other than the childlike fun they seem to be having) is the ingredient list:
Organic evaporated cane juice, organic tapioca syrup and/or organic rice syrup, citric aid (from beet sugar), natural flavors, may contain organic black carrots, organic black currant, organic pumpkin, organic apple, organic carrot, organic alfalfa.
The Yummy Earth flavors include: wet-face watermelon, too berry blueberry, sour apple tart, pomegranate pucker, mango tango, googly grape, strawberry smash, and very very cherry.
To the families and businesses out there -- we can now do better! Our kids can have chemical free treats! Adults love them too! These are the best tasting lollipops I have ever had!
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