# What were the original flavors, shapes, and colors of Jujyfruit candy?

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**Created:** [May 24, 2004, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-original-flavors-shapes-and-colors-of-jujyfruit-candy/246860 "2004-05-24T19:25:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![TheMadHun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@TheMadHun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheMadHun)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-original-flavors-shapes-and-colors-of-jujyfruit-candy/246860/1 "2004-05-24T19:25:43Z")

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I remember as a kid I would love buying the candy, but trade away the greens which were mint, and the blacks which were licorice.

Now they are all fruit flavored, which I agree makes more sense.  
But now they also seem to apply the colors to shapes randomly.  
Each shape comes in [all five colors](http://www.whatsbetter.com/static/images/4613.jpg)

A current box has 5 colors: red, orange, yellow, green, and black.  
I think each color is always the same flavor, but I confuse easily on that.

There are [six shapes shown here](http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/extra/gummi/art/jujy.gif), but there is a [seventh shape](http://tomsfarms.com/cgi-bin/merchant2/graphics/00000001/jujyfruits_small.jpg), the green one in this picture.

Of the first shapes, I think they are, by rows across:

1. strawberry?, 2) [I cannot recognize this one]
2. orange blossom?, 4) raspberry
3. HEIDE [the original company name] 6) pineapple  
7th) peas in a pod?

As you can see, I still don’t understand one of my favorite candies.  
So, What was the pattern, and what is the pattern now?

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**Author:** ![Limbo\_Donni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Limbo\_Donni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Limbo_Donni)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2004, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-original-flavors-shapes-and-colors-of-jujyfruit-candy/246860/2 "2004-05-25T00:03:32Z")

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I have just part of one answer.

According to [this TV news report](http://www.nbc4.com/answerstoaskliz2000/1165860/detail.html), the flavor mint was changed to lime in Jan 1999, when Hershey briefly owned the brand. It has since been resold to [Farley’s and Sathers](http://www.farleysandsathers.com/), who also bought a bunch of candy brands from Kraft/Nabisco.