Fizzy Cola Bottles
The bottle shape everyone reaches for first.
- CategoryFizzy
- First appeared1920s
- CountryBritain
- How it is madeMoulded gummyExtruded
What it is
A soft chewy sweet moulded into a little glass bottle shape, flavoured with cola and rolled in sour fizzy sugar. The coating hits first and sharp, then the chew underneath is sweet and dark like flat cola. The single most ordered sweet in British pick and mix.
Taste
Where it comes from
Cola flavoured gums appeared in Germany in the 1920s, when Haribo and others started shaping sweets like the bottles the drink came in. The fizzy version came later, once manufacturers worked out that a coating of sugar mixed with citric and malic acid gave the same tingle as carbonation. British pick and mix took to them in the 1970s and they have not left the top of the tub since. Almost every European sweet maker now produces a version, which is why no two cola bottles taste quite the same.
What it's made of
Glucose syrup and sugar set with modified potato starch and beef and pork gelatine into a bottle mould, with grape juice concentrate and caramel syrup, then tumbled in a mix of sugar and food acids to give the fizz. The cola flavour is a blend of citrus oils, vanilla and caramel, the same family of flavours used in the drink itself.
Ingredients and allergens
Ingredients
Glucose syrup, sugar, modified potato starch, grape juice from concentrate (5%), beef gelatine, pork gelatine, acidity regulator (citric acid), acids (lactic, fumaric), caramel sugar syrup, natural flavouring
Choking Warning: Not suitable for children under 36 months
Allergens
No allergens in the ingredients
