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Black Jack (confectionery)
Encyclopedia
Tangerine Confectionery
Tangerine Confectionery is a British confectionery company with its headquarters in Blackpool, Lancashire.It has grown, since 2006, through acquisitions into one of the largest independent confectionery companies in Europe and the fourth largest sweet maker in the United Kingdom.-History:In January...
brand in Spain. Black Jack is very similar to Fruit Salad
Fruit Salad (confectionery)
Fruit Salad is a type of "Raspberry & Pineapple flavour chew" according to its packaging. This means that it is a chewy confectionery. Fruit Salad is manufactured by Barratt in Spain...
, which are also manufactured by Barratt. In the 1920s Trebor Bassett manufactured them, and the wrapper showed gollywogs on it. An example of it can be seen at the V&A Museum of Childhood.
Nutrition facts
Nutritional InformationPer 100g - Energy 1680 kJ (395 Kcal), Protein 0.8g, Carbohydrate 84.5g, Fat 6g.
Per Chew - Energy 50 kJ (10 Kcal), Protein 0g, Carbohydrate 2.4g, Fat 0.2g.
Ingredients
Glucose syrup
Glucose syrup
Glucose syrup is a food syrup, made from the hydrolysis of starch. Maize is commonly used as the source of the starch in the USA, in which case the syrup is called "corn syrup", but glucose syrup is also made from other starch crops, including potatoes, wheat, barley, rice and cassavap.21...
, sugar
Sugar
Sugar is a class of edible crystalline carbohydrates, mainly sucrose, lactose, and fructose, characterized by a sweet flavor.Sucrose in its refined form primarily comes from sugar cane and sugar beet...
, hydrogenated vegetable fat, colours (E153, E151, E129), citric acid
Citric acid
Citric acid is a weak organic acid. It is a natural preservative/conservative and is also used to add an acidic, or sour, taste to foods and soft drinks...
, gelatine, flavouring, emulsifier (soya lecithin).
Each pack weighs 33.6g and contains 15 chews.