Hey smartie pants!! (Nestle Smarties)

Member Name: stebiz

Product:	Nestle Smarties
Date:	10/04/09 (61 review reads)
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Advantages: No Artificial Colurs

Disadvantages: Not healthy. Sugar and Chocolate!!

There can't be many out there who have never tried Nestle Smarties. I remember having them as a youngster. My mum and dad were always buying me them. At Christmas I used to get a huge tube off Father Christmas and I also used to get given one from church, providing I filled the empty tube with pennies. Oh the memories..............................

Anyway moving on 30 years or so. The smarties are still in the same tube. I now give my youngsters them and Father Christmas still buys them a large tube for Christmas. I don't know if our local church still gives the tubes out at Christmas because I don't go to church very often anymore.

Nestle Smarties were first made by Rowntress as far back as 1882. They are small circle shaped coloured sugar coated chocolate. They are delicious. They are in 8 different colours. Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Orange, Mauve, Pink and Brown. In 2006 they stopped producing the blue smartie for a short while because they removed all artificial colours from the production. As they couldn't find a natural colour they swapped the colour to white. In 2008 it was revived after they finally found a suitable natural colour.

There may be those out there that do not realise that the production no longer takes place in York but is now carried out in Germany.

When I was younger I know I used to love sucking the flavours off the smarties but now they seem so small and I can't wait to get through to the chocolate. Maybe it is just me getting bigger but a packet of smarties used to feel a lot bigger. Now as I empty the packet I tend to consume a number in one go.

So what about the nutrition side. Well as you would expect with sugar coated confectionary it is not going to be all that healthy for you.

In a tube there are 173 calories, which is 10% of a childs GDA. However you can be assured that there are no artificial colours or flavours. Milk chocolate itself accounts for 65% in a crisp sugar shell.

Per 100g there is 456kcal, Protein 4.2g, Carbohydrate 71.0g, Fat 17.2g.

The prices can vary from shop to shop but a small tube will cost about 45p.

Summary: The kids just love these.