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Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Sunmark of St Louis’ group of companies, which was later acquired in 1986 by Rowntree Mackintosh of the United Kingdom, which was, in turn, taken over by Nestlé. The Willy Wonka brand candies were developed by Sunmark in a joint venture with The Quaker Company. In 2002, Nestlé replaced the original lime with green apple. This confectionery-related article is a stub.
You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Try again later, or contact the app or website owner. Enter the characters you see below Sorry, we just need to make sure you’re not a robot. Nerds are an American candy launched in 1983 by the Sunmark Corporation under the brand name Willy Wonka Candy Company. The television show Unwrapped explains how Nerds are made. A factory worker states, “Basically we start off with a sugar crystal and we just keep coating it with more sugar. The factory spins huge barrel-like containers of sugar crystals, which receive coats of sugar until the Nerds are formed.
The nucleus of each candy is composed of one or more complete sucrose crystals. These optically clear monoclinic crystals are about 0. 1 mm in length and help define the irregular shape. They are thickly glazed with carnauba wax, which gives them a hard bite and a gloss. The article “Nerds Candy Nutrition” states, “Nerds primarily consist of sugar. The top three ingredients are dextrose, sugar and malic acid.
