Vegan Rowntrees Fruit Gums
Discussion
I know this is fairly trivial but I've really liked Rowntrees Fruit Gums for many, many years,
I was unfortunate enough to have tried their new (now standard) vegan version which I found to be soft, sticky and tasteless.
I suggested on the Rowntrees website that they might consider making a range of sweets specifically for vegans rather then foisting tasteless stuff on the vast majority of people who have loved them for decades and I saw many similar comments with the same sentiment.
I've just seen they declined to publish my comment.
As I said, very trivial in the grand scheme of things but pretty disappointing to see
Any thoughts ?
Has anyone else tried them ?
I was unfortunate enough to have tried their new (now standard) vegan version which I found to be soft, sticky and tasteless.
I suggested on the Rowntrees website that they might consider making a range of sweets specifically for vegans rather then foisting tasteless stuff on the vast majority of people who have loved them for decades and I saw many similar comments with the same sentiment.
I've just seen they declined to publish my comment.
As I said, very trivial in the grand scheme of things but pretty disappointing to see
Any thoughts ?
Has anyone else tried them ?
I tried the fruit cocktail pastels and they were poor.
The vegan flag is just riding the present food fad band wagon as they've been vegan for as long as I can remember (some jelly type sweets have beef or pork gelatine in them).
I would suggest they've done something to the flavour balance and that is the reason behind the poor sweets.
The vegan flag is just riding the present food fad band wagon as they've been vegan for as long as I can remember (some jelly type sweets have beef or pork gelatine in them).
I would suggest they've done something to the flavour balance and that is the reason behind the poor sweets.
dapprman said:
I tried the fruit cocktail ones and they were poor.
The vegan flag is just riding the present food fad band wagon as they've been vegan for as long as I can remember (some jelly type sweets have beef or pork gelatine in them)
That may well be the case but they've done something now to make them terrible from what I can see and are marketing them now as "vegan friendly with a softer chew". The vegan flag is just riding the present food fad band wagon as they've been vegan for as long as I can remember (some jelly type sweets have beef or pork gelatine in them)
Nothing like what they were like even a month or two ago.
tsdapprman said:
Wonder if they've reduced the amount of sugar in their sweets, that would cause the change in flavour
Yeah, that was my thought and this might be confirmed in this wikipedia page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowntree%27s_Fruit_G... - stating that they were going to reduce the sugar in 2017 by 30%. Also, the vegan gums would have agar agar instead of gelatin although I don't think there's much flavour in agar agar.rodericb said:
Yeah, that was my thought and this might be confirmed in this wikipedia page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowntree%27s_Fruit_G... - stating that they were going to reduce the sugar in 2017 by 30%. Also, the vegan gums would have agar agar instead of gelatin although I don't think there's much flavour in agar agar.
Agar agar used to be listed as vegetable gelatin in the pre E number days.
55palfers said:
anonymous said:
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Wine Gums have gone all soft and unpleasant too.Why can't they leave stuff alone!
Rowntrees Fruit Gums were like my last refuge, now sadly gone it seems.
Don't get me started on "Sports Mixtures"
Edited by Composer62 on Friday 4th March 12:43
Dunno if it’s anything to do with dropping sugar content, I don’t eat the things, but Ribena dropped the sugar content and replaced it with sweeteners. Tasted like toxic waste after. They already did a low sugar version, so to do that to their main product was bonkers. I used to take it really dilute so waaay under the mythical 5% sugar they were trying to get under to avoid the tax anyway. Rules and stupid marketing decisions are making the world an awful place. What ever happened to choice?
FBR2020 said:
Composer62 said:
Don't get me started on "Sports Mixtures"
Tesco sell bags of Lion Football Gums, near as dammit identical to the original Sports MixtureFound some in my local Tesco Extra, though a little apart from similar products.
They are indeed very close to the original Sports Mixture so I'm delighted. Even the black ones are the original liquorice flavour.
Thanks very much for the tip.
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