12: The Sweet and the Tart (Dextrose Candy)

We examine a curious little genre known as Dextrose Candy. The best known versions are SweeTarts and Smarties, but the flavors can also range to minty flavors, soda inspired arrays and of course the sours.

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What We're Sweet On (starts at 0:19) 

Maria: Hershey's Cookies n Creme Easter Eggs 

Cybele: Wilbur Malted Milk Balls ... and some mention of Tastykake Kandy Kakes

History of Compressed Dextrose (starts at 2:35) 

Dextrose as a sugar 

Candy and Corn: Rich in Dextrose from the Candy Professor

Process of Compressed Dextrose (starts at 8:05)

Pucker Powder demonstration machine to make custom candy tablets. You put in a token, select your flavors, they pour into a tube and then the powder becomes your custom mix of candy tablets as the machine stamps the out and dispenses them into a container at the bottom of the machine.

Candies made from Dextrose (starts at 16:57) 

SweeTarts Spree 

Runts

Bottlecaps

Smarties

Smarties Lollies

Candy Bracelets & Necklaces 

Kabaya Ju-C Gold

Cry Baby Tears (Concord) 

Dingbats (and other candy coated novelty shapes) 

Bleeps (coated jawbreaker tarts) 

Soda Can Fizzy 

Tart n Tinys

Flavor Types (starts at 32:25) 

Traditional Fruit

Tropical 

Mint 

Soda Pop

Extinct Compressed Dextrose Candy (starts at 36:26) 

Wacky Wafers

Wonka Tangy Bloops

Fleer Sour Puckers

Beech Nut Sour Bites (Fruit Stripe Gum spinoff)

Treat or Trick (starts at 39:35) 

Oreo Cotton Candy

Wonka Easter Bags included Coconut Laffy Taffy

Warheads Sour Worms

Squrtz - chewy candy filled with a juicy center or a sour powder center.

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