Foam Banana
The banana that tastes of a banana nobody eats any more.
- CategoryMisc
- First appeared1950s
- CountryBritain
- How it is madeMoulded gummyAerated or foamed
What it is
A soft foam banana, light and spongy, with the strong artificial banana flavour that British children have grown up with for seventy years.
Taste
Where it comes from
Foam sweets use the same aerated sugar and gelatine base as marshmallow, whipped until light and moulded into shapes. The banana and the shrimp became the two great British foam sweets of the penny counter era, and the flavour used, isoamyl acetate, is the one that defined banana flavour long before the fruit we eat now was common.
What it's made of
Sugar and glucose syrup whipped with pork gelatine and air, coloured with safflower and flavoured, then moulded and set.
Ingredients and allergens
Ingredients
May contain traces of <strong>nuts</strong> and <strong>peanuts</strong>. Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Pork Gelatine, Acid (Citric Acid), Flavouring, Plant and Vegetable Concentrates (Safflower, Red Beet).
Allergens
May contain: Peanuts, Tree nuts
