What it is
A mixture of liquorice pieces, fruit gums and jelly shapes, with an aniseed and liquorice character throughout. Old fashioned and strongly flavoured.
Taste
Where it comes from
Poor Bens are a traditional British liquorice mixture, related to allsorts but with a wider range of shapes and a more pronounced liquorice flavour. Mixtures like this come out of the Pontefract liquorice trade, which produced several competing assortments through the twentieth century.
What it's made of
Several components, liquorice paste, modified starch gums, apple jam centres and fruit juice concentrates, combined into one mixture with beeswax and carnauba wax glazes.
Ingredients and allergens
Ingredients
Glucose syrup, Sugar, Water, Beef Gelatine, Modified Potato starch, Liquorice extract, Colours (Anthocyanins, Carmines, Chlorophylls, Curcumin, Lutein, Paprika extract, Mixed Carotenes, Vegetable Carbon), Maize starch, Modified Tapioca starch, Fruit Juice Concentrates (Apple, Blackcurrant, Grapefruit, Lemon, Lime, Orange, Pear, Raspberry, Strawberry), Vegetable oils (Palm oil, Coconut oils), Aniseed oil, Acids (Acetic acid, Citric acid, Fumaric acid, Lactic acid, Malic acid), Apple Jam [Glucose Fructose Syrup, Sugar, Concentrated Apple Puree, Water, Apple Juice, Acidity Regulator (Sodium Citrate), Acid (Citric Acid)], Gelling agent (Pectin), Acidity regulator (Sodium bicarbonate), Glazing agent (Carnauba wax, Beeswax, Gum Arabic), Plant Concentrates (Safflower, Spirulina).
Allergens
No allergens in the ingredients
