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Mars Skittles |
| Date: |
18/11/08 (146 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: tasty, fruity, make me hyper
Disadvantages: too much sugar, loads of E-numbers so no good for kids.
One of my favourite sweet treats. I'm more of a savoury girl really and if I have sweets that aren't chocolate they have to be fruity, so Skittles are perfect!
In the supermarket last night I resisted a huge bag or one of those Christmas tubes and went for the small 55g bag like a good girl so that's the bag I'm reviewing now.
The packet as it always has been is bright red, the Skittles writing looks different though, its still in white and it has a red skittle in place of the dot for the i. Above the word Skittles it says 'fruits', in the background is a picture of a rainbow and a funny pink helicopter creature doodle, I guess this is a design a child has sent in as there is a little box with the website address and it says you can win your design on packs of Skittles. The website address is www.goskittleyourself.com which I guess is the new tagline; I must say it sounds quite rude to me. Gone is the traditional line 'Taste the rainbow'.
There are 222 calories in this little bag of Skittles; this is 11% of your recommended daily calorie intake.
There are 5 different flavours of Skittles in this fruits selection. You can get Sour Skittles and mint ones too but these are nowhere near as tasty as the traditional fruity ones!
Each different flavoured skittle is a different colour so it's easy to know which is which:
Red: Strawberry
Purple: Blackcurrant
Orange: Orange
Green: Lime
Yellow: Lemon
Each flavour tastes exactly like the fruit it is meant to represent but a lot sweeter obviously. Skittles actually contain 5.1% fruit juice, of each of the 5 above fruits!
They are only coloured on the outside, the middle is white.
Skittles are chewy sweets, the outside is a crisp sugar shell and once you start to chew this dissolves away and you are left with a really chewy centre, if I ate loads I could imagine my jaw would really start to ache!
As with most sweets, my favourites are the red ones closely followed by the purples, then orange, green and yellow in that order. I know I won't sleep tonight because I'm really sensitive to E numbers; I get almost hyper and these are full of them but its worth it once in a while lol.
Skittles contain E100, E120, E132, E160, E171 and E475. Sugar is the main ingredient of Skittles which is obvious as they are very sweet.
I really wouldn't recommend giving these to your kids unless you want them racing around your house high on E numbers!
Most sweets give you less of the best colours; fruit pastilles and wine gums for example usually only have a few red and black ones in. But Skittles are different, usually the amount of each colour is pretty equal but I've been lucky with this bag and got far more red ones than any other colour :)
Just to make my review a bit different I thought I'd count them, there were 50 skittles in total in my bag and then I counted how many of each colour I got:
Purple: 5
Green: 8
Yellow: 9
Orange: 10
Red: a whopping 18!
I eat them in an order, starting with yellow and saving the best; the reds till last!
This 55g bag cost me 35p, a 195g bag costs around £1.29 and the Christmas tubes which are full of little bags cost around £1.
A good treat for me but too much sugar and too many E-numbers for kiddies! Oh well, more for me.
Summary: A cheap high in these credit crunching days :)
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