Fun Sweet Facts♦Strawberry bonbons rarely contain real strawberry, but the smell molecule is identical♦Pear drops get their flavour from amyl acetate, the same compound found in real pears♦Marshmallows were originally made from the root of the marsh-mallow plant♦The longest sweet shop in the world ran for over a mile in Llandudno, Wales♦The largest sweet jar ever filled held over 1.6 million sweets and weighed half a ton♦Flying saucers were invented in Belgium in the 1950s using rice paper♦In Victorian England, a pennyworth of sweets bought you a small jar full♦Fizzy sweets get their pop from citric acid mixed with bicarbonate of soda♦Strawberry bonbons rarely contain real strawberry, but the smell molecule is identical♦Pear drops get their flavour from amyl acetate, the same compound found in real pears♦Marshmallows were originally made from the root of the marsh-mallow plant♦The longest sweet shop in the world ran for over a mile in Llandudno, Wales♦The largest sweet jar ever filled held over 1.6 million sweets and weighed half a ton♦Flying saucers were invented in Belgium in the 1950s using rice paper♦In Victorian England, a pennyworth of sweets bought you a small jar full♦Fizzy sweets get their pop from citric acid mixed with bicarbonate of soda
