Tescos Own Fruit Pastilles (Tesco Fruit Pastilles)

Member Name: OhLala-17

Product:	Tesco Fruit Pastilles
Date:	28/03/09 (124 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Fruity, Pear!

Disadvantages: Loads Of Sugar.

On a shopping trip to Tesco, I wondered down the sweet aisle as I had a craving for jelly tots for about 3 days. I couldn't see any Jelly tots and thought fruit pastilles would fill my fancy as they are near enough the same.
My eye caught the purple, bright packet of Tesco's own version, I picked the packet up and it looked perfect.
Light & dark purple with a picture of the sweets on the front, the picture looked just like the Rowntrees fruit pastilles and the bag around the same size of 250g.

Opening the packet was easy you just pull it open like most packet sweets. And the smell was nice and fruity.
I popped my hand into the packet and pulled out a sweet, unlike Rowntree's the Tesco's own brand are in different shapes made to look like fruits. Each flavour sweet representing that fruit. E.g Green = Lime.
In the packet are Orange, Blackcurrent, Raspberry, Pear, Lemon & Lime tasting pastilles.
I am a big fan of the Blackcurrent and of course this was the one I ate first, and it tasted pleasent, just like Rowntrees.
I useually leave the Yellow/ Green coloured sweets as I don't like Lemon & Lime, but as it was a different make I thought I might as well give it a taste My first reaction on the Yellow one was 'Wow, this tastes alot like pear drops.' A bit odd for a Lemon flavoured sweet right? It took me the last yellow sweet to realise it was actually a Pear flavoured sweet and not Lemon!! And this made a really nice change to have Pear sweet instead of Lemon.
I then tried the Green colour (yes this one is Lemon & Lime) as I bit into the soft sweet the taste hit me and unfortunatly I'm still not a fan of Lemon & Lime.
All the other colours tasted pleasent and had a good fruity taste to them. Each pastille being a soft centered sweet or you could just stuck it for a while, with a sugar coating dusted on top.
I enjoyed the pastilles and it didn't take me long to finish the packet off after a hard day at work, I was kind enough to share the green ones though!

Overall the Tesco own Fruit Pastilles are good, I must say Rowntress will always be my number 1 choice as I like the hardness of them.
At just 63p for 250g compared with Rowntrees £1.26 for 205g, it's a bargin and you can't go wrong. It just depends on what you like best.

A downside to the product like most sweets is the sugar content.
5 Sweets contain 85 calories & 15g of Sugar. On the packet it doesn't actually say how much the whole bag contains it only shows you 100g or 5 sweets worth, but 100g contains...

330 Calories
59.8g Of Sugar
Protein 3.6g
Carbs 78.2g
Trace of Fat, Fibre, Sodium & Salt.

On the ingrediants Sugar is listed first which means thats what it contains most of. I also noticed this product is NOT suitable for Vegetarians as it contains Beef Gelatine.

A good product shame about the sugar content!
I give this 4*'s because of the pear pastille instead of Lemon, otherwise it would have been just 3*'s. It looses a star because of the Sugar content.

Summary: Tasty Treat.