36 varieties of jelly bean?! Popcorn? Whatever next, garlic bread? (The Jelly Bean Factory Gourmet Beans)

Member Name: katykicker

Product:	The Jelly Bean Factory Gourmet Beans
Date:	25/07/09 (78 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Fantastic variety of flavours should be something for everyone, lots of nice tastes.

Disadvantages: Some awful tastes, a little overpriced for just 200g.

When browsing the aisles of Tesco today my eyes spotted a 200g tub of The Jelly Bean Factory Gourmet Beans (36 varieties) and after recently reading a nice positive review on them I decided to pick some up.

The tub is a cardboard tub with a polythene seal and a plastic purple lid. The tub is fairly eye catching and displays the usual nutritional information, company information and shows you a picture of each of the 36 varieties.

For the purposes of this review we poured the entire contents out in to a bowl and then deemed to work out way through each of the 36 varieties each eating one. At around one hour of sampling the different varieties we have tried around half with me not liking around 1/3 of these and my other half loving all of them except one.

On the tub it shows you a picture of each jelly bean and it tells you underneath what each of the flavours are so it should be relatively easy to identify what each flavour is. There are many weird and wonderful flavours and some relatively normal ones such as granny smith apple, tangerine, cranberry & apple and then some of the weirder ones are popcorn and candy floss. All of the flavours that we sampled have indeed tastes just how the real thing would taste and as we picked one colour at random and then had one of that colour each it meant that I ended up with a few that I wasn't very keen on such as liquorice.

The beans are very colourful and made my mouth water, the tastes were amazing and I was really astounded by how realistic most of them tastes. As I said above there was a few flavours that I wasn't very keen on and this definitely marred the enjoyment a little.

There are many flavours and I'm sure that there would be something for everybody. It does seem that there is around 100 beans and at least 2 or 3 of all of the varieties so you can sample them a few times just assess whether or not you actually enjoyed the flavour.

I paid £1.75 from Tesco for the 200g tub and I do think this was a little overpriced, however, it was fine to try something different. I won't be making these a regular addition to any junk food shopping trip though as they are just a little expensive and weren't quite as nice as I imagined them to be. I'm obviously a normal girl at heart as I longed for lemon, lime, orange, strawberry etc without having any weird flavours in between!

Also, I would not recommend just throwing a handful in your mouth at any one time as the different flavours will mingle together and the result probably won't be very nice, however, if you hand pick some that would usually blend well together you might be surprised.

I can't comment on the calories or any of the nutritional information as unfortunately (or fortunately?!) this is not displayed on the tub.

I am going to rate these jelly beans 4/5 and I would recommend them as a novelty kind of sweet but it's not something that I'm going to be purchasing long term partly due to the price and partly due to some of the more weird flavours.

Summary: A tub of jelly beans, some nice, some not so nice.