Fruit pastilles are one of the best known treats by Rowntree’s, they’ve been around for years in a roll with about a dozen multi-flavoured sweets inside them. Fruit flavoured and made with real fruit juices too, they were many a kids favourite sweet back in their days of being allowed to be a child, before sugar became the great evil that some would have you believe it is. Alongside fruit gum and even Jelly Tots Rowntree’s seems to have the market cornered for multi-flavoured fruit snacks. However hat happens when they just stick to a single flavour? They’ve gone and found out with the Fruit Pastilles Blackcurrant variety, that seem hard to find, but they do exist.
Coming in a 52.5g roll the pack is everything you knew about Fruit Pastilles…then given a purple wash over and turned blackcurrant. Identical looking, feeling and tasting to normal blackcurrant fruit pastilles. The sweets come in a purple coloured paper outer wrapper with a foil inner wrapper and the packet contains 14 of the lovely sugar coated candies with a black colour sitting under the white glistening coat. The sweets seem to be more chewy than the normal versions of the sweets, which is actually rather delightful, though they may seem tougher as they’ve been in a cold environment for a while which may have gotten to them (in a good way though). Thank fully Rowntree’s have been smart enough to pick out one of the better flavours of the product (would also love a Strawberry version guys) and they’ve managed to create a rather clever way of avoiding the poorer flavours of one of their best sweets.
Nutritional Information (per 100g)
1490 KJ Energy
351 Calories
4.3g Protein
83.6g Carbohydrates
Nil Fat
The sweets contain 25% fruit juices from Apple, Grape and Blackcurrant.
Overall Rowntree’s (who are owned by Nestle) have managed to create a marvellous product here, by knowing their consumers and listening to us they’ve given us a product of which we have been wanting. It’s rare for a company to listen to people saying things like “I don’t like the green ones” and act on it, usually preferring to pretend that for everyone who hates one flavour someone else loves it. It’s not the case! The black and Red Fruit Pastilles are the best, so come on lets follow this up with a Strawberry edition and be done with needing to pick out the poorer flavours.
The only problem is that I’ve only ever seen these stocked in a Tesco Metro in Cambridge…never anywhere else, sadly Cambridge is the opposite part of the UK to me at the moment, and I’ve just finished my packet…So that’s a second problem the packets are too small.
