Jelly Belly just debuted their 92nd flavor of jelly bean – a honey bean, infused with real wildflower honey. They’ve got a descriptive PR team working for them. Check out the press release:
“A comforting and soothing flavor, Honey Bean Jelly Belly bean is golden yellow and drenched in the taste of honey from the chewy center to the tender shell of the jelly bean… Savor it for the straight-from-the-hive flavor along with a cup of tea.”
The beans themselves are beautiful – shiny beads of amber that almost look translucent. I want to string them together and turn them into jewelry. They would make great drop earrings!
As usual, Jelly Belly has managed to be pretty spot on in their flavor capture. They taste just like little drops of honey – sweet and floral – but they have the gelatinous and slightly grainy texture of jelly beans.
As Cybele noted in her review, these aren’t a mindlessly-chomp-through-a-whole-bag candy. The inevitably saccharine nature of their flavor means that they get to be too much after a while. But they are nice in small doses, and they seem like they’d play well with other beans. An O.
Varsha