Monday, April 14, 2014

Creamy Lemonhead and Friends JuJu Flowers

Creamy Lemonhead & Friends JuJu FlowersIn the list of candy holidays, Easter ranks at the top by creating more Candies You Can Play With than any other. The product name, Creamy Lemonhead and Friends JuJu Flowers, actually sounds weird. A lot of those words don’t seem to go together. The Lemonheads and Friends as a brand doesn’t work for me, as I don’t think that the friends are that identifiable. The word creamy before Lemonhead is absolutely jarring and the idea of Jujus are anachronistic enough but then adding the shape of them just makes for a string of “I don’t think I’ve had that before, have I?”

These pretty morsels aren’t shaped like eggs or rabbits, but simply like little six petal flowers. (For the record, I looked up jujubes, they’re in the same order as roses and do actually have five petals or multiples of five.)

The flavors sounded interesting: marshmallow creme, orange creme, strawberry creme, lime creme and banana creme. The last one, banana creme was the one that really got me. Banana is not a common flavor, so this pretty much was why I plunked down my dollar.

Lemonheads & Friends Juju Flowers

Marshmallow Creme is pretty much flavorless. Not that there’s anything wrong with sugar flavored candy. It was very clean with a light vanilla note. I liked using it as a palate cleanser between the other flavors.

Lime Creme has a rather interesting flavor profile. The creamy background gives this a key lime note, though there’s no tart note to it like actual citrus fruit.

Orange Creme is refreshing. It’s like a creamsicle without the zap of the orange juice. It’s just sweetness with the creamy smoothness of the jelly chew and a hint of zest.

Lemonheads & Friends Juju FlowersStrawberry Creme , unfortunately, has some red dye flavors that just ruin it for me. It’s more strongly flavored that the other pieces, the strawberry is rather fake instead of clean and fresh, which is too bad. Since there’s no tangy component, a candy like this should taste rather like cotton candy, not a vinyl inflatable beach ball.

Banana Creme was not what I’d hoped. Instead of a creamy, sweet tropical banana flavor ... it really tasted like a bland lemon creme to me. It tasted do much like lemon that I have to wonder if the packaging label was a mistake. Now, as a lemon creme, it’s passable, actually good. It’s like the marshmallow but with the slightest hint of lemon.

All the flavors were mild, but the whole thing was, well, simply pleasant. They’re like Dots, except they don’t stick to my teeth quite as much (but they still stick).

I wouldn’t buy these again for eating, but they are really great looking. Their outside texture is smooth and dry, so they don’t stick together at all. The colors are bright enough that they could be used for something other than Easter, as well. I could see these as a nice jar of candy for a candy buffet for a wedding or shower. They’re certainly inexpensive, at $2 per pound, if you wanted to sort them to use only particular colors, that would be a viable option for many budgets. They’re not gummis, so there’s no gelatin in there. They’re made in a facility with peanuts, tree nuts, milk and soy.

Related Candies

  1. Brach’s Carrot Cake Candy Corn
  2. Lemonhead & Friends Jellies
  3. Ferrara Chocolate Candy Coated Chocolate Covered Almond Eggs
  4. Ferrara Pan Chicks & Bunnies Jelly Candy
  5. Eat with your Eyes: Easter Dots
  6. Lemonhead & Friends Jelly Beans
  7. Christmas Dots
  8. Marich Easter Select Mix
  9. Dots
  10. Jelly Belly Deluxe Easter Mix


Name: Creamy Lemonhead and Friends JuJu Flowers
    RATING:
  • SUPERB
  • YUMMY
  • TASTY
  • WORTH IT
  • TEMPTING
  • PLEASANT
  • BENIGN
  • UNAPPEALING
  • APPALLING
  • INEDIBLE
Brand: Ferrara Pan
Place Purchased: Dollar Tree (Echo Park)
Price: $1.00
Size: 8 ounces
Calories per ounce: 99
Categories: Candy, Easter, Ferrara Pan, Jelly Candy, 5-Pleasant, United States, Dollar Tree

POSTED BY Cybele AT 1:47 pm Tracker Pixel for Entry     CandyReviewEasterFerrara PanJelly Candy5-PleasantUnited StatesDollar Tree

Comments
  1. What am I missing?  I see 6 little blurps around a center blurp.  How am I supposed to look at this to see 5 petals?

    Comment by Albanyish Dana on 4/14/14 at 5:54 pm #
  2. Oh, dear.  “Cream Lemon” is the title of an erotic anime series produced in Japan, so the name of this candy strikes me as being . . . just a little unfortunate.

    Comment by Johnny Carruthers on 4/15/14 at 8:49 am #
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