Results tagged “jellybean” from Christine's Candyland

Part of the inspiration for this blog was that I wanted to order a bunch of candy from Jbox. What a great website! So many interesting, yummy and odd things from Japan. One of the items in that first order was Poifull.

As the package says, now comes with Pineapple! Poifull are jelly bean like candies with flavors Pineapple, Purple Grape, Apple and Green Grape. I love the graphical depictions of the flavors on the bottom of the box, so cute. Or as they would say in Japan, kawaii!

Upon opening the box I was delighted to find that it opened kind of like a Nerds box. Fun.

They're smaller than standard jelly beans and in softer hues. Pineapple is pale yellow, Purple Grape is, um, purple, Apple is pink and Green Grape is green.

The outer shell isn't as firm as most jelly beans, in fact there doesn't seem to be much of a shell at all. It's very soft, hardly any chewing was necessary.

If the box hadn't said that ones of the flavors was apple, I wouldn't have known what the heck pink tasted like. At first I thought it was some kind of melon, after another taste, I thought it was grapefruit. To me, it didn't really taste like apple. Regardless, this was my least favorite flavor.

Green was sort of reminiscent of an actual green grape. I don't particularly care for green grapes (any grape really) so again, this flavor didn't do a whole lot for me. It was pleasant enough but not something I'd want several of.

Purple was another lackluster bean. No artificial grape flavor here, just a vague sweet bland taste. Perhaps I eat too much sugar and have gotten my taste buds used to large doses of sweet, maybe I can't taste subtle sweet flavors anymore. That would be sad.

Yellow was hands down my favorite, I ate all of them in the box! The pineapple flavor was fresh and immediately recognizable, though it didn't have the same acidic tart that a real pineapple has but I really wouldn't expect it in a candy, unless it was a sour candy. I would love a whole box of just the pineapple ones, the other flavors I could certainly do without.

Not sure why some of the beans were heart shaped. It as a nice surprise for sure :)

I saw these reviewed on Candy Addict and found them so intriguing and interesting (and I love Nerds) that I desperately sought them out in every drug store, grocery store, etc. that I went into. Voila! The Walgreens near my parent's house netted success thanks to my mom's keen eyes.

In the bag, they're not very impressive looking. They're very dusty and made the bag look like it's filled with brightly colored rocks and dirt. But I digress. Don't you just LOVE the cute little Nerds in bunny ears on the bag? Well I do.

They come in your standard candy colors: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green and Purple. Red was strawberry I think. It wasn't exactly obvious or strong, which isn't a bad thing. A lot of strawberry candy tastes fake but not in a good way, unlike fake banana candy which I care for a great deal. Orange was....ORANGE! Isn't that crazy?! So yeah, it was your basic zingy orange, like Crush soda. Yellow was lemon as usual and it was a nice lemon, bright and happy.

Green took some major taste testing to figure out for sure.
At first I assumed lime but I was pleasantly surprised to discover that it was watermelon! It's a nice, pleasant watermelon with no harsh aftertaste like some watermelon flavors.

Purple was grape. Blech. I don't like grape flavored things, and when I was young would always make my brother eat any purple candy I got. It's an ok taste, just not for me.

The biggest upside of these bumpy little guys is their wacky crunchy chewy combination.
 
Coming from Wonka, it's no big surprise that these are unique and different. The crunchy outer shell kind of breaks away as you chew them and mingles nicely with the chewy of the bean and since it's not a sticky bean, you don't get those pesky chunks stuck in your teeth. Won't your dentist be pleased?

I think they started out as a seasonal Easter thing, but according to Mariko at Candy Addict "An email from Wonka tells us that these are offered year round as Giant Chewy NERDS!" Be on the lookout for these guys but be careful, you might just eat a whole bag!