Hershey's Kissables facts for kids
Introduced | 2005 |
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Discontinued | July 2009 |
Hershey Kissables were small, colorful chocolate candies. They were made by The Hershey Company. These candies were sold from 2005 to 2009. Kissables looked like tiny Hershey's Kisses. They had a thick, crunchy sugar shell, much like M&M's candies.
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What Were Hershey Kissables?
The first Kissables came in bright colors. These included red, orange, yellow, green, and blue. Hershey's also made special versions for holidays. For Easter, they had pastel colors. For Valentine's Day, they were pink and white. Christmas versions were red and green.
In 2007, Hershey's introduced a new type. It was called Kissables Dark. These had a semi-sweet dark chocolate inside. Their colors were also more muted.
Kissables were stopped being made in July 2009.
Why Did Ingredients Change?
Around 2007, The Hershey Company started changing some recipes. They wanted to use cheaper fats instead of cocoa butter. Cocoa butter is usually more expensive.
Because of these changes, Hershey's had to update the product description. They changed it from "candy coated milk chocolate" to "chocolate candy." This was important because of United States Food and Drug Administration rules. These rules say what can be called "milk chocolate." If a product has less cocoa butter, it cannot be called "milk chocolate" anymore.
Original Ingredients (2005)
Here are the ingredients from 2005:
- Milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, chocolate, nonfat milk, milk fat, lactose, soy lecithin, PGPR, and artificial flavors)
- Sugar
- Red 40
- Yellow 5
- Yellow 6
- Blue 1
- Carnauba wax
New Ingredients (2007)
Here are the ingredients after the change in 2007:
- Sugar
- Vegetable oil (palm, shea, sunflower and/or safflower oil)
- Chocolate
- Nonfat milk
- Whey
- Cocoa butter
- Milk fat
- Gum arabic
- Soy lecithin
- Artificial colors (red 40, yellow 5, blue 2, blue 1, yellow 6)
- Corn syrup
- Resinous glaze
- Salt
- Carnauba wax
- PGPR
- Vanillin