Rowntree's Fruit Gums Reviews

Rowntrees is one of the best known and longest standing brands in the confectionery marketplace. After a rather confused few years following the company's takeover by Nestlé a couple of decades ago, it now seems to have settled down to become "the sweet brand", while Nestlé itself is "the chocolate brand". This means ...  Read the complete review

I have always been quite a big fan of Rowntree's sweets, but I had actually never tried Fruit Gums before. So while I was out today, I popped into my local newsagents and decided that I would buy myself some to try. Fruit Gums come in either a 48g green tube or a 205g yellow "sharing" bag. My greediness took over, and I bought ...  Read the complete review

My husband came back from the local shop with a 205g bag of Rowntrees Fruit Gums for £1.79. Expensive i thought, but how wrong can you go with a big bag of sweets? What do you get: A bag of small hard sweets, not covered in sugar. There are six variants: orange, darker orange, lemon, lime, blackcurrant and strawberry. ...  Read the complete review

I hadn't had a packet of these for years! Saw them at lunch time and thought I'd have some! (was hoping they would make the afternoon at work go quicker...and I think they have!) Anyway, a 48g tube of fruit gums cost 48p. Not bad as they have lasted all afternoon! The packaging is quite traditional, a foil wrap around the ...  Read the complete review

Fruit gums are packaged in a similar to manner to fruit pastilles and both are made by Rowntrees. Fruit gums are a harder version of fruit pastilles with no sugar coating, jelly and which are very chewy. When I was younger I bought these instead of fruit pastilles by mistake once or twice and when this happened I was very ...  Read the complete review

Rowntree's Fruit Gums.....250g. These fruit gums are in a very bright colourful yellow and orange striped pack and do not contain any artificial colours or flavours. They also contain 25% Fruit Juice flavours. This pack gives you a percentage of a child's guideline daily amount. Each 1/4 bag serving contains 170 ...  Read the complete review

These are a must in my Christmas stocking every year. I grew up with these. they were the quick tasty snack to satisfy my hunger for something sweet, and there was just one day I recall going to the local sweetie shop to find they had sold out! Okay I wasn't distraught, but you know how easily kids get disappointed. Now the 'tubes' are ...  Read the complete review

Containing no artificial colours or flavours and real fruit juice Rowntrees Fruit Gums even sound healthy but let's not get carried away, they are after all just sweets! Very tasty sweets mind you, and I can remember having these as a kid in the 70s but I think they've been around for way longer than that so they've stood the test of ...  Read the complete review

Rowntree's Fruit Gums!! Is it just me or are these sweets simple fantastic. I first ate these sweets around 3 years ago whilst at uni and since then I cannot help but but them everytime I see them. Rowntree's fruit gums are a jelly type sweet and are similar to a wine gum in taste but a ...  Read the complete review