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Black Pepper, Black Berry, Booger…Jelly Bean Flavors?
Every year, people eat enough jelly beans to circle Earth more than five times. Stacked end to end, those jelly beans would stretch over halfway to the moon! It’s safe to say we love those tiny candy treats, and not just during Easter. They actually have their own day! This year, National Jelly Bean Day is Tuesday, April 22nd: a day for all jelly bean lovers to indulge in their favorite flavors
With Jelly Belly alone offering over 50 official flavors, there’s a jelly bean out there for everyone. They even offer black pepper, booger, and sausage flavored jelly beans in their Harry Potter themed Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Bean package.
To figure out which flavors were the absolute best, we asked the jelly bean experts at the Rutherford Cooperative Day Nursery what their favorite flavors were, and here’s what the children had to say:
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- Pink (Watermelon)
- Red (Cherry)
- Orange
- Purple (Grape)
- Green (Lime), Blue (Raspberry) – tied
- Yellow (Lemon)
It seems like most people agree with the three to four year old children, as Very Cherry is the bestselling flavor ofJelly Belly. However, in the United States, Buttered Popcorn is strangely the second bestselling flavor.
What’s your favorite flavor?