If you love traditional sweets, the chances are you have a certain type of flavour profile that you can't resist. For some of us, it is sweet foam sweets or sharp gummies. For others, it is fizzy sherbets but for many, it is the wonderful mouth-tingling, eye-watering enjoyment of sour sweets. You know that you've got a good sour sweet when you make that face that signifies a real taste explosion happening in your mouth and the incredible sourness giving away to delicious sweetness and wonderful fruity flavour.
Origin of Sour Sweets
Sour sweets have been around for as long as we can remember. Sour candies didn't have a great reputation when they started to be manufactured back in the 19th century. People were afraid of the chemicals involved because manufacturers had to use acidic ingredients such as vinegar. Vinegar was added to convert sugar into glucose and to make that distinctive sweet and tart combo. By the 1950s, the game changed as manufacturers began to use Halloween in the USA as a platform for advertising sour candies. They ran themed promotions that created a mental link between sour candy and the spooky festival. In 1954, Ferrara Pan Candy Company created and launched Atomic Sour Fireballs based around the time the US Army detonated the first hydrogen bomb. The candy left the mouth numb, being filled with capsaicin and cinnamaldehyde, and it captured the public imagination. By the end of the 1970s, sour candy was a hot-selling category of sweets in its own right, driven by hugely popular sour sweets such as Warheads in the USA, which were made in 1993 and based on a very sour candy found in Taiwan. The extremely sour taste was made from malic and citric acid and it created a 'warhead' in the mouth. At Berrymans we have a truly wonderful range of sour sweets that you'll remember from the nostalgic days of childhood. You probably remember many of our sour sweets from when you went to the corner shop to spend your pocket money on pick and mix. But we might also have some delicious new sour confectionery that you don't even recall. Discover our wonderful sour treats today at Berrymans. Why not begin your exploration with these top favourites:
Top Selling Sour Confectionery at Berrymans
Sour Apples
When you want jelly sweet and sour goodness covered in fizzy sugar, tuck into our delicious sour apples made with an authentic recipe and real sugar. You'll love these flavour-packed sour apples, finished in the iconic combination of yellow, red and green shades. They are gummy, chewy, perfectly sour and covered in sugar. They are also dairy-free and gelatine-free.
Sour Dummies
Our sour dummies are exactly as you remember them from childhood, packed with fruity flavour and covered in sour sugar. They are colourful and cute and a hot favourite with our customers. Check out the large confectionery-style jars that we send our sweets in - with free delivery on all orders!
Sour Strawberry Pencil Bites
Made to a traditional recipe and with real ingredients, our sour strawberry pencil bites are a wonderful combination of sour sugar-covered red jelly filled with a soft white fondant. They are completely retro, fun and delicious and we know that our customers adore them.
Stock up on sour sweets at Berrymans
Which of our sour confectioneries will you treat yourself to? Our sweets are all made to traditional recipes and with real sugar, cooked in huge copper vats at our factory in Lancashire. We have a huge range of candies to suit every retro taste and we know our customers absolutely adore our full-flavoured, rich and nostalgic sweets that taste far better than the insipid alternatives you find on the high street. With free delivery on every order, a score of 4.9 on Trustpilot and the Berrymans Promise for your total peace of mind, it's the perfect time to discover our sweets and give yourself a treat!