M&M + Soft fruit Chew=Skittle (Mars Skittles)

Member Name: iamasadlittleboy

Product:	Mars Skittles
Date:	22/10/09 (41 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Taste, Texture

Disadvantages: Hard to find for some reason, can be messy

What happens when you cross breed a Fruit based chew with an M&M? Well you'd surely end up with something similar to a Skittle. Coming in a Mainly red bag with a bright colour scheme and the word Skittles written in big white lettering one of the most loved sweets Mars produce seem to have gotten harder to find in recent years. However as I've (finally) gotten myself a 55g bar of them it's time to review them before the bag vanishes (seems to be an annoying trait in this house at the moment sadly).

The product was being solid with the tag "Taste the rainbow" and contain a variety of real fruit flavours (5 flavours coming from real fruit juices). Though with so many other fruit based sweets are they good enough to hold their own?

The first thing you notice is the way they look, almost identical to the small plain M&M's that Mars make (Mars are also responsible for these) though with an "s" replacing the "m" on the coating of the sweet. They come in Red, Yellow, Green, Orange and Purple each representing it's own flavour but each identical in size and texture. They have an outer coating made of sugar (again identical to that of an m&m) with a softy chewy centre in the middle that holds the flavour of each individual sweet. As you do sort of expect with Mars the quality is high, the sweets never feel cheap, or like you could easily squish them between your fingers and the taste meets the high standards that Mars do often seem to work towards. The individual flavours are terrifically sharp and yet equally sweet in a wonderful combination of sweet and fruity and the sweets do maintain a rather chewable quality to them that manages to make them genuinely fun to eat, something most sweets can't really claim to be.

Nutritional Information (per 100g)
403 Calories
0.0g Protein
90.5g Carbohydrates
4.2g Fat

The sweets contain: Modified Starch, E numbers (100, 120, 132, 144, 160e, 171,330, 331, 475) (source: the packet)

Overall they are lovely, they taste fantastic, really beautiful taste and great chews that seem to mix soft (inside) with hard (outside) to compliment each part wonderfully. Although the product does contain a lot of E numbers, a lot of Carbohydrates (almost certainly mainly sugar) and over 200 Calories a bag it's easily to think you're having a fruit snack due to the taste and convince yourself all is fine. As with m&m's there is a rather large possibility of making a rather large mess with them if you spill them as they seem to just run and the bag seemed oddly impossible to open with out splitting them (annoyingly). Though it's almost impossible not to love Skittles they maintain a childish charm to them that could attract almost anyone into enjoying a mouthful and if eaten a mouthful at a time you can also feel like you've got yourself a bit of a fruit salad in your mouth. A real delight.

Summary: Taste the fruit salad