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History of Gummy Bears.

The Gummy Bear originates from Germany where it is hugely popular under the name Gummibär ("rubber bear"). The German company Haribo from Bonn first produced bear-shaped sweets in 1922 and introduced its Gold-Bear product in the 1960s. The success of Gummy Bears has spawned many gummy animals and objects: worms, frogs, hamburgers, cherries, cola bottles, sharks, apples, oranges, and even gummy ampelmenn. Many knockoff gummy bears are available on the market. Trolli is a well-known knockoff gummy candy manufacturer and was the first to introduce "gummi worms" in 1981.

Ingredients

The traditional Gummy Bear is made from sugar, glucose syrup, starch, flavouring, food coloring, citric acid, and gelatin. There are also some types of Gummy Bears made with pectin instead of gelatin, making them suitable for vegans.

Depending on the production method, it may be similar to the British confectionery Jelly Babies.

Large sour bears are larger and flatter than Gummy Bears, have a softer texture, and include fumaric acid or other acid ingredients to produce a sour flavor. Some manufacturers produce sour bears with a different texture, based on starch instead of gelatin.

Health issues

Gummy bears ordinarily contain mostly empty calories, but recently gummy bears containing vitamin C, produced by manufacturers such as Bear Essentials[1], are being marketed towards parents of young children. Multivitamins have also been produced in the form of gummy bears.

Gummy bears, and other gummy candy, stick to teeth and may cause tooth decay.[2]. However, gummy bears containing the cavity-fighting additive xylitol are now being tested.[3].

Gelatin, a key ingredient in most gummy bears, is produced from the bones of cattle and may harbor harmful prions. Prions are misshapen proteins that can cause mad cow disease in cattle and variant CJD in humans, and are not destroyed when cooked.

On screen

Cartoon series

In the 1980s Disney produced a cartoon series called Adventures of the Gummi Bears. However, the bears on this show share no resemblance with the candy Gummy Bears.

Feature films

In the final scene of the feature film Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), a girl on a schoolbus offers a gummy bear to her downtrodden principal Mr. Rooney:

"Want a gummy bear? They've been in my pocket all day. They're real warm and soft..."

In the 2001 film, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, American Gummy Bears are used to represent power, as well as that of a dramatic change over Gummibär and the East Berlin lifestyle. The scene in this musical leads up to the song, "Sugar Daddy."

In the film Jack, Robin Williams' character (who has a disease that causes rapid ageing), offers gummy bears to his teacher, played by Jennifer Lopez. She accepts the red ones.

In restaurants

At the end of a meal at Michaelangelo's Restaurant Cafe in San Francisco, guests are treated to a novel albeit unsanitary treat—a communal bowl of gummy bears.

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