This article relies too much on references green apple jolly ranchers primary sources. Bill and Dorothy Harmsen founded the Jolly Rancher Company in 1949, choosing the name to give the impression of a friendly Western company, and opened their first Jolly Rancher Ice Cream Store in Golden, Colorado on May 28, 1949. Finding that ice cream was hard to sell in the cold winter months, they added a line of bulk and boxed chocolate that was provided by a small candy farm in the Denver area. Jolly Rancher filed for a trademark for Jolly Rancher as a word mark on March 31, 1958, and received registration number 0695762 for that trademark on April 5, 1960.
The first use in commerce for that Jolly Rancher word mark was noted in the filing as being June 1,1960. In 1966, Jolly Rancher Company was sold to Beatrice Foods, although Bill Harmsen continued to operate the business. In 2002, Hershey closed the Arvada, Colorado plant and moved the manufacturing of the candy to Mexico to save costs. In 2014, Hershey acquired Ontario based company The Allan Candy Co. Jolly Rancher’s original flavors were watermelon, apple, and fire stix. They soon introduced cherry, orange tangerine, lemon, grape, peach, black licorice, and sour apple. Current flavors include cherry, blue raspberry, grape, green apple, fruit punch and watermelon.
There are also sour, cinnamon, and smoothie varieties. In 2013, lemon was reintroduced in an all-lemon bag. A sweet hard candy, mostly defined by fruity flavors made of amorphous solids and formed from highly concentrated sugar solutions giving them a crystallized, glassy appearance. Amounts converted and rounded to be relative to 18 g serving or 3 pieces. Percentages are roughly approximated using USÂ recommendations for adults. A hard candy with both fruit flavors and sour mixed together including Wild Strawberry, Green Apple, Watermelon, Cherry and Blue Raspberry. Amounts converted and rounded to be relative to 18g serving or 3 pieces.
The Jolly Rancher Fruity Bash assortment consists of lemon, mountain berry, strawberry, pineapple, orange flavored hard candies. Jolly Rancher Lollipops are a hard candy on a stick. Each assorted bag comes with cherry lollipops, watermelon lollipops, green apple lollipops, pink lemonade lollipops. Sodium Lactate, Natural Flavor, Artificial Flavor, Artificial Color: Red 40, Yellow 5, Blue 1, Yellow 6. Amounts converted and rounded to be relative to 17g serving or 1 piece. Jolly Rancher Sugar Free Hard Candy is a variation of the traditional Jolly Rancher hard candies, but with zero sugar. Jolly Rancher Sugar Free Hard Candy comes in watermelon, grape, apple, and raspberry flavors.
Malic Acid, Natural Flavor, Artificial Flavor, Acesulfame Potassium, Artificial Color: Red 40, Yellow 5, Blue 1, Yellow 6. Amounts converted and rounded to be relative to 16g serving or 4 pieces. Jolly Rancher Awesome Reds Hard Candy is an assortment variation including only the popular red candy flavors. Flavors include cherry, watermelon, strawberry, fruit punch. Less of: Malic Acid, Pectin, Natural Flavor, Artificial Flavor, Artificial Color: Red 40, Yellow 6, Blue 1. Jolly Rancher Hard Candy with a sour powdered center. Flavors include green apple, watermelon, blue raspberry.
Less of: Natural Flavor, Artificial Flavor, Sodium Lactate, Baking Soda, Tricalcium Phosphate, Maltodextrin, Artificial Color: Red 40, Yellow 5, Blue 1, Yellow 6. Jolly Rancher Holiday Candy Canes are candy cane shaped treats made in the original Jolly Rancher Hard Candy flavors like Blue Raspberry, Cherry and Green Apple. Amounts converted and rounded to be relative to 12g serving or 1 piece. Jolly Rancher Tropical Hard Candy delivers tropical fruit flavors with a blend of fruit punch, golden pineapple, lime, pear and mango flavors.
Jolly Rancher Watermelon Hard Candy is a package of just the original Watermelon hard candy fruit flavor. Less of: Malic Acid, Natural Flavor, Artificial Flavor, Mineral Oil, Lecithin, Artificial Color: Red 40, Yellow 6. A variation on consistency from a traditional Jolly Rancher hard candy, the Jolly Rancher Chews are a chewy candy made in various fruity flavors. Individually wrapped in assorted bags, flavors include cherry, blue raspberry, watermelon, green apple, strawberry. Amounts converted and rounded to be relative to 41g serving or 9 pieces. Jolly Rancher Awesome Twosome Chews are intended to provide the consumer with two flavors in one bite.