I love Jelly Belly's jelly beans. They are very good; I like to have a few every day. I like the quality of the beans—Jelly Belly even flavors the inside of the beans so that the flavor is constant throughout the entire bean! I don't like all of the jelly beans, but I like most of them. Here is my personal guide to all of the Jelly Belly jelly bean flavors I could find (including the special Bertie Bott's beans) with some information from the Jelly Belly website. I am considering splitting this into several pages. Contents
Official 50 Flavors · Smoothies · Soda Pop · Other
Bertie Bott's · Sweet Rocks · Bean Boozled · Retirees
Official 50 Flavors
Officially, at any time, Jelly Belly has fifty official flavors that are made year-round. Here is the guide to those fifty flavors.  | A&W Cream Soda In 1976, Jelly Belly (then known as the Herman Goelitz Candy Co.) created eight spectacular jelly bean flavors. Cream Soda was one of them. And I'll tell you, it isn't bad at all. It's a satisfyingly tasty flavor. It's smooth, and there's the littlest hint of vanilla. I've never actually had any cream soda before, but the jelly bean is so tasty that I might have to try it some time. This is one of the most translucent beans there is. |  | A&W Root Beer I like this flavor. It probably tastes exactly like real A&W root beer. I should have a taste test some time to see how closely flavors compare. I wouldn't be surprised if they tasted exactly the same. Root Beer was also one of the original flavors, so Jelly Belly has had plenty of time to perfect it. |  | Berry Blue Many of the jelly beans are flavored like fruit or berries. The taste of Berry Blue is pretty sweet. It doesn't taste like any particular berry, however, just like a mixture of several berries. It's strawberries, blueberries and raspberries, to be specific. Actually, the flavor is quite strong, and if you hate berries with a passion, you might not care much for this bean. Regardless, nobody could disagree with me when I say that it's the most beautiful jelly bean there is. The picture doesn't even do it justice. The light shimmers through the gorgeous bean magnificently. It's such a pretty jelly bean that it's almost a shame to eat it, but that's what it's there for, so buck up and eat it. Just avert your eyes for two seconds while you grab it and stick it in your mouth. |  | Blueberry "Blueberry" is just "Berry Blue" with the words rearranged. Be more creative, Jelly Belly! Ronald Reagan was a huge fan of Jelly Belly's beans. He started eating them to break his habit of smoking a pipe. The Blueberry bean was created in 1981 so that he could serve red, white, and blue beans at parties during his inauguration. The flavor is good; it accurately resembles that of a blueberry. Inside of the bean's blue shell is a chewy black center! This is a lot better than a real blueberry—even though the inside of the bean is juicy, the blueberry juice doesn't squirt all over the place when you accidentally stomp on it! But you still have to be careful while holding this bean, because the blue tends to stain your hand. |  | Bubble Gum It tastes very similar to real bubble gum. It's very sweet. It's also quite chewy! Something a lot of people don't notice until I tell them is that the Jelly Belly beans have texture inside of them! Bubble Gum has a sticky kind of feeling and it sticks to your teeth. It's soft to chew. It's also perfectly safe to swallow. Unfortunately, bubble-gum-flavored jelly beans don't last as long as their real-life counterparts—after a few moments of chewing, the bean will have practically fallen apart in your mouth, and you'll have nothing left to chew. Most bubble gum is pink, so I suppose that the bean's color is appropriate, just like nearly all of the other jelly beans. |  | Buttered Popcorn Before Jelly Belly, jelly beans were usually limited to sweet, fruity flavors. Buttered Popcorn changed all this; it was one of the first "gourmet" flavors. Maybe that's why Buttered Popcorn remains one of the most popular Jelly Belly beans there are. Unfortunately, I think this bean looks more like a scrambled egg than a kernel of buttered popcorn. But wouldn't it be awesome if the movie theaters offered buckets of popcorn-flavored jelly beans instead of real popcorn? Then your fingers wouldn't get so greasy from the butter. Oh, but you know what? Jelly Belly sells tins of Buttered Popcorn beans that look like those old-fashioned popcorn bags! The best part? No un-popped kernels. But still... needs more salt. |  | Café Latte I know many people who don't like the coffee flavors. Here's a tip: "Diluting" the bean's flavor with other, tastier beans is an easy method of drowning out the bad flavors. Café Latte used to be one bean that I usually ate with one or two more beans to weaken the flavor's concentration. Can you stand to eat this bean? Can you taste the hint of vanilla flavor in it? Café Latte is made with real coffee, though I doubt it's enough to wake you up very much. |  | Cantaloupe Get it? "Can't elope"? Hah hah, sigh. Anyway, Cantaloupe is another flavor of the jelly beans. It's not one I particularly like or dislike. A lot of people like to eat cantaloupe as part of breakfast. I don't, but it'd probably be really healthy for me to. You know, there are only four calories per bean (for every flavor), so maybe I could just eat a few Cantaloupe beans every morning with my breakfast. |  | Cappuccino Another coffee-flavored bean. At first, I didn't like this flavor, but now it's actually grown on me. I quite like it. My mom likes the coffee-flavored beans too. It's kind of funny, but eating the coffee-flavored jelly bean seems too similar to eating a real life coffee bean. Think about it. A coffee... bean. It's just too funny. Cappuccino jelly beans have real coffee in them, but eating a handful of these babies probably won't keep you up late into the night (which could be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on what you do for a living). Actually, I don't like eating a handful of them. The flavor gets a little overwhelming. Ack! |  | Caramel Apple An apply/caramelly flavor. It's good. It's has a happy, sweet taste. You can taste the caramel and the apple! And guess what! The inside of this bean is colored green! The outside has caramel flavoring, while the inside is apple-flavored! It has real apple juice in it, too. The bean's a little chewy and it's sticky just like how caramel is sticky. It sticks to my teeth! This bean is super convenient because there's no stick or seeds or apple core to eat around. It's like a carnival in my mouth! |  | Caramel Corn This bean has an interesting flavor. It's not one I particularly like or dislike, and I probably couldn't handle eating a handful of them at once, but it has a taste that is much better than the Buttered Popcorn bean, which is interesting, because I like real buttered popcorn and don't like real caramel popcorn. Isn't it weird how the tongue plays tricks on us? This bean tastes pretty much like caramel corn, right down to the caramel. |  | Chocolate Pudding This is the only chocolate-flavored jelly bean in existence right now, so it's essential to use in mixing with other beans to create "recipes". I like to use it in my sundae recipes like chocolate syrup, or perhaps eat it with a fruit-flavored bean to enjoy the taste of chocolate-covered fruit. Unfortunately, the Chocolate Pudding beans look a lot like the other brown jelly beans, so the recipes often get really screwed up because I'll use the wrong bean. Chocolate Pudding seems to have a more opaque color than A&W Root Beer. The Jelly Belly website says they put real chocolate in this bean, so if you're a chocoloholic, this is the flavor to go with. |  | Cinnamon Not as strong or spicy as Sizzling Cinnamon, but it still kicks a punch. "Kicks a punch"? Does that even make sense? Oh well, I like it, so I'm going to keep it like that. I don't know why they need this and Sizzling Cinnamon. It's too repetitive. I suppose you could eat a handful of these to freshen your breath before a hot date or something like that, but it probably wouldn't be as effective as Sizzling Cinnamon. |  | Coconut Before I began eating jelly beans, I didn't really like coconut at all. But after eating the jelly beans, which have real coconut in them, I think I like coconut... enough to buy a Mounds bar! Inside of the hard, crunchy shell is a lovely chewy center! I love how chewy this bean is! This is the only pure-white jelly bean there is. A&W Cream Soda is close, but it's not as opaque as Coconut. |  | Cotton Candy Real cotton candy is inconvenient. Really. It's big and cumbersome, as well as being Distressingly Sticky. However, the bean is so much easier to eat than the real stuff. I always found the hard part of eating cotton candy was getting a mouthful without having to bury my whole face into it. It's smaller, too, so it's better for the person "on the go!" Cotton Candy has a really sweet flavor. It's not quite so "melts-on-your-tongue" as real cotton candy is, but it's still one of the sweetest jelly beans you can find. It's like a carnival in my mouth! |  | Crushed Pineapple Personally, I don't like pineapples, but this is a really good bean. It has a distinct texture and zestiness that no other bean has. And is that a hint of juiciness?! Also, it's a little bit translucent! My aunt Carla likes this flavor the most. I don't know why Jelly Belly calls it Crushed Pineapple--the bean isn't crushed. |  | Dr Pepper I don't get it; it doesn't taste like pepper!!! Seriously, though, I wonder why Jelly Belly used Dr Pepper, and not Coca-Cola or something. There used to be a cola-flavored bean, but it's been retired. I don't really like Dr Pepper, but for some reason, the bean tastes really good. For those of you who don't know what Dr Pepper tastes like, all I can tell you is that it's not cola flavored—just a jumbled mix of a whole bunch of flavors. I often have a hard time telling this bean apart from Chocolate Pudding, especially if I don't have them side-by-side. Dr Pepper is slightly more red-tinted. |  | French Vanilla It's white with little tiny blackish spots, just like real French vanillas. I absolutely love to use it in my ice cream recipes. I like to eat a small handful of these babies and experience the vanilla rush. This is one of my most favorite flavors. It's not too sweet--I would call it a "soft sweetness" that is not at all offensive. I like vanilla, and this bean's flavor is vanilla, and it has real vanilla in it. 'Nuff said. |  | Grape Jelly If you like pouring grape syrup on your ice cream, Grape Jelly is a good flavor to put into your ice cream bean recipes. Jelly jelly beans are fun. Actually, in real life, my favorite kind of jelly is strawberry jelly, but grape jelly is a close second. This is one of the few purple jelly beans. One of the eight original flavors was in fact Grape. There is no Grape bean anymore, but this bean has real grape juice in it, and it's very grapey, so it doesn't get much closer than this. The bean is actually dark colored, and doesn't jump out at you if you're trying to find it. |  | Green Apple One of Jelly Belly's first eight flavors, Green Apple has had a few spin-off flavors. This one is really sweet, compared to Red Apple, but has more of a pure apple flavor than Caramel Apple. Interestingly, while Caramel Apple has real apple juice in it, Green Apple doesn't seem to have any natural apple flavoring. Isn't that weird? I would never have guessed, except that I hardly think it tastes like apple at all. |  | Island Punch Wow! This flavor really packs a punch! "Pack a punch", that's the right phrase! Not "kick a punch"—what was I thinking? I taste a bunch of berries in this bean. It's really tasty, and it is also the more vibrant purple out of the two purple beans. I wonder why they called it Island Punch and not something more like Berry Punch (or Berry Bombardment). |  | Jalapeño Woo mama! It's hot! Wonder why? It has jalapeño powder in it! I can't help but smile when I see someone pick it up, mistaking it for Green Apple, and innocently put it in their mouth, and smoke pours out from their nostrils and tear ducts. It's definitely one spicy son of a gun! Eegah! My cousin doesn't think it's that bad but I can't even swallow them! Fortunately for me, Jelly Belly omits it from their 49-flavor bean collections because it's a surprisingly spicy little bean that the world could possibly do without. |  | Juicy Pear It has pear juice in it for that natural flavor. My sister tells me that she thinks it's "pear-y good" (pardon the pun; it's hers, not mine). But just look at that bean. Is that not the most ugly bean you've ever seen? The spots make it look horrifyingly gross. It looks like a horrible genetic mutation or something—what is wrong with this bean?!? I suppose that since it doesn't look good, that will cause people to think that it doesn't taste good. Am I right or am I right? or am I right or am I right or am I right? It is juicy, though. |  | Kiwi Well, it definitely tastes like real kiwifruit (because it has kiwi juice in it), except it doesn't have the icky fuzziness of a real kiwi. One thing I don't understand about the kiwi bean is that the outside is green. Why, Jelly Belly? Everybody knows that the inside of a kiwi is green; the outside is brown, and the bean should be like that too, right? But wait, if Jelly Belly did that, the coloration would be too similar to that of Caramel Apple—brown on the outside and green inside. And we can't have that, can we? No, because color variety is necessary in this world of ours. |  | Lemon I would say that Lemon is a pretty good flavor. The center has a special texture that, in my honest opinion, resembles that of a lemon. It's also a little bit sour—not too sour, but just a hint of sourness that can only come from mothers-in-law. hah hah hah It's a nice change from the sweeter beans. Jelly Belly says that it has oil from the zest of real lemons in it. Oh, that explains the accuracy of the flavor. Lemon is one of the original flavors. |  | Lemon Drop I like lemon drops, and this bean is no exception. It tastes like a lemon drop, and that's all that can be expected. The taste resembles Lemon (it's lemony) but it is sweeter, and therefore, more loveable. I love Lemon Drop (but it isn't my favorite flavor!). The colors are very accurate: the yellow glob of lemon flavor covered in delectable white pearls of sugar. |  | Lemon Lime This is probably the most radioactive-looking bean there is. It is bright green. Regardless, this is a good bean. It tastes like Lemon except that it has a hint of lime. You can taste both, in fact. Actually, Jelly Belly says that the inside is the same as Lemon (so there's real lemon zest in this bean too), and the shell is lime-flavored. Cool! There's a little hint of sour with this bean, too. |  | Licorice The only black-colored jelly bean. Licorice was one of the eight originals. It tastes like black licorice--there used to be red licorice ones too. I used to dislike Licorice beans, but now I like them. My mom also likes the Licorice beans, but my neighbor's little cousin can't stand them. When we had an egg hunt, and she got licorice jelly beans in her plastic eggs, she refused to eat them, and her aunt had to eat them for her. And when Dad gets a licorice bean from the bean machine, he'll usually just leave it in the tray, so I have to eat it for him. |  | Mango Mango? More like mang-no. Sorry, bad pun, but I don't like the flavor because it's too much for my poor little tongue to handle. It has real mango purée and juice in it, and I don't like mangos. I like the coloration of the bean, though. Yellow with green specks! How clever! I love Jelly Belly for giving us such an interestingly-colored bean. Thank you, Jelly Belly. |  | Margarita Oooh, like a real margarita, except that you don't need any ID to eat it. But there's no alcohol in it anyway, so it's impossible to get drunk eating jelly beans. I bet it would taste a lot like a real margarita if you ate it with a sprinkle of salt—that would make a more convincing flavor. Actually, no, that sounds ridiculous. The beans are good enough by themselves. Apparently, Jelly Belly uses real cactus juice in these babies! How 'bout that?! |  | Orange Juice This bean is one of my most favorite jelly beans! It "splashes" in your mouth! It seems to be one of the juicier jelly beans! Perhaps the inside has a small "reservoir" of jelly bean juice that is released when you puncture the outer shell (or something like that). Appropriately, there is real orange juice in this bean. I don't like the real pulpiness of real orange juice, but there isn't annoying pulp to get in the way with this Orange Juice jelly bean! Wahoo, it's perfect! |  | Orange Sherbet You're probably getting tired of me saying things like this, but Orange Sherbet surprisingly tastes a lot like real orange sherbet! I swear, my mouth is getting cool just chewing on one of these! A lot of people incorrectly write "sherbet" as "sherbert", with an extra R; they get confused because there's an R in the first syllable, so they mistakenly add one in the second. That's wrong, people. Orange Sherbet is a pretty good flavor—it's sweet and it has that tasty orange flavor. Orange is my favorite color. Interestingly, the inside of this bean is white, just like the ice cream. |  | Peach The Peach jelly beans are annoyingly hard to chew, but the flavor is pretty good, I guess... The colors are interesting (and a little gross, actually; it looks like some gross scab or something). It is a translucent light orange with red spots all over it that seems to make me want to avoid eating this bean, even though the flavor is pretty good. |  | Peanut Butter I like Peanut Butter jelly beans. The texture is okay—it feels more like chunky peanut butter because there seem to be little tiny chunks of peanut mixed into the bean. In fact, they use real peanuts in this one, so don't go thinking it's okay to eat this bean if you're peanut-intolerant. Other than the chunks, the bean is smooth and creamy. Actually, the texture is quite interesting. Try eating one of these with Grape Jelly or Strawberry Jam to create a PB&J sandwich recipe. |  | Piña Colada You know what? Piña Colada is a pretty bizarre bean! The flavor is a mixture of coconut and pineapple (there's real coconut in it, but I see nothing in the ingredients list about real pineapple), which are two flavors that I don't truly care for, which makes it interesting that I like this flavor. There are too many yellow beans. It's too easy to mix these beans up. Jelly Belly needs to invent some new colors, like lurple or something. |  | Pink Grapefruit Okay, this bean has a pretty good flavor. Grapefruits have okay flavors. I used to drink grapefruit-flavored soda for a while. This bean reminds me of the soda. Kit Potter wrote to me to tell me how it tastes like a real grapefruit, except it has no bitter flavor at all. It's only sweet. Yum. Yes, they are tasty. |  | Plum Well, the flavor is okay. It genuinely tastes like a plum. Plums are okay in my book, but look at this bean! I like the look of this bean. Two shades of purply-blue blending and swirling together on the shell of the bean, and inside, you have red! The inside is red! It's incredible. There's real plum juice in the bean. You know, Jelly Belly retired Plum once, but people wanted it back, so Jelly Belly made it an official flavor! |  | Raspberry It's a little bitter at first, but it's a bean that has a very good flavor. It has raspberry purée in it. I really like the Raspberry bean, especially with the Chocolate Pudding bean. It creates a cool raspberry-chocolate combination that some people have only read about. I like the deep red color of this bean—it's a bit of a two-toned mix of red and a slightly darker red. Lovely to stare at for hours. |  | Red Apple Oh, you know what's cool about this bean? It's kind of like the Plum bean. Cut or bite it in half and look. It's white inside, just like a real apple! This bean has a more tart flavor than the Green Apple; it's pretty good tasting, and probably one of the most sour beans available. Sometimes, it's so tart that my lips pucker up! It's also a bit crunchy, like a real life apple, while still managing to be chewy. Guess what! It has real apple juice in it! |  | Sizzling Cinnamon Yowza, try chewing on a few of these babies like I just did. It's really spicy—much spicier than the regular Cinnamon jelly beans. Compared to Cinnamon, Sizzling Cinnamon is hotter than fire! Fortunately, the spiciness eventually subsides. I once heard that you can drink milk to subside spiciness. I wonder why Jelly Belly doesn't have a milk-flavored jelly bean. How about it, Jelly Belly? Honestly, I don't know why they need this bean and the less-sizzling variety. I think they should get rid of the regular Cinnamon flavor. Sizzling Cinnamon can be distinguished from Cinnamon by its yellow splotches. |  | Strawberry Cheesecake Cheesecake is one of my most beloved desserts, and yeah, I guess this bean tastes kind of like cheesecake, but the strawberry flavor (there's strawberry powder in the bean) really struts its stuff unless you know where to look for the cheesecake. This is the first of the three strawberry beans we'll come to. The color of the bean is nice. Light pink with darker red speckles. It's a good-tasting bean that just crumbles in your mouth with the smooth creaminess of real cheesecake. This is one bean that I wouldn't mind having to eat six or seven of at a time. After all, it is my favorite flavor. |  | Strawberry Daiquiri This bean is surprisingly fruity, and it has real strawberry purée in it. The color is similar to Strawberry Cheesecake, but it's a tad darker. Interestingly, and I haven't noticed this with any other beans, the outside shell appears to have bubbles in it! It looks as though there had been bubbles when the shell hardened. Ahhh, I love daiquiris. I think I'll sit on the back porch and have a cocktail party right now, tra la la la... Waitaminute... there's no rum in this bean! |  | Strawberry Jam It was actually retired once, but Jelly Belly brought it back because of popular demand. It tastes quite like real strawberry jam because it has strawberry juice in it. I like the color of this bean—it has to be my favorite bean, based on appearance. Deep semi-translucent red with dark specks in it. Pretty to look at, pretty to eat. This is the closest thing to having strawberry syrup on your ice cream sundae bean recipe. |  | Tangerine Tangy tangy tangy! Jelly Belly uses real tangerine zest in these babies, so watch out! Zesty zesty zesty! Some people would say, punningly, that it is tangerine-istic. I wouldn't. The color is cool, though. Applaud the Tangerine bean; it's one of the eight original flavors, and has withstood the Test of Time. Ugh, I'm getting tired of writing this guide. |  | Toasted Marshmallow I like this flavor. It's sweet and reminds me of my favorite camping-only food, except it's nowhere near as gooey. In fact, try eating Toasted Marshmallow with Chocolate Pudding to make a s'mores recipe! Bite off half of this bean, look inside, and you'll see pretty sparkling white inside it like a real marshmallow. It sparkles and is really fascinating to look at. You'll feel like a doofus doing it, but I want you to take a good, long look at the inside of this bean. Trust me, you'll thank me for it later. |  | Top Banana My hypothesis is that Top Banana gave up its shot at being near the front of the alphabet in order to give itself a funny-punny name. Top Banana is soft like a real banana, and half of it is brown, like a real banana. I like this bean. It's great! I like the flavor. They should have more banana-flavored foods in real life. The bean is mushy when you chew it... just like a real banana! It also feels like it's crumbling apart in your mouth when you chew it in the same manner as a real banana. In fact, like a naturally-growing banana, it has real banana in it! Although the middle of this bean is mushy (and white-colored), the shell is still pretty hard, so don't try feeding it to Baby. |  | Tutti-Fruitti It's not spelled "Tutti-Frutti" like the Little Richard song. It's spelled "Tutti-Fruitti" to put emphasis on the fun, fruity flavors! The colors are magnificent. It's a pink bean with blue, yellow, green, and red splashed all over it. I think it tastes like bubble-gum-flavored toothpaste. The outside is just a little hard, but the inside seems soft. I find it easy to confuse this bean with Strawberry Cheesecake. |  | Very Cherry The most popular Jelly Belly bean there is, Very Cherry is one of the original eight flavors. I like the flavor of this bean. I like cherry. And the name rhymes! Very Cherry, like Top Banana, chose to have a fun name rather than reside at the front of the alphabet. The flavor is of this bean is strong. Of course, the best part is that there are no pits to choke on! Try throwing this into one of your ice cream sundae recipes. It will be the "pretty-please" cherry on top. |  | Watermelon You can see through the translucent green shell to see the red interior. Green and red... just like a real-life watermelon! This is a pretty good flavor. I like it even though I don't like real watermelons one bit. Real watermelons are too watery. Actually, this bean is pretty watery too! At least they didn't put real watermelon seeds in the bean (the seed would be so big that it would fill up the whole bean—no fun at all). |  | Wild Blackberry Flavors burst out of the bean to fill your entire mouth with blackberriness. That's because it has blackberry purée in it. I love the color of this bean. I like that you don't get pricked when picking these babies up. Real blackberries burst too easily and all of the juice squirts out and stains everything. All of the jelly beans have a hard shell, and the insides aren't liquid anyway, so these kind of "accidents" don't happen with them. |
Smoothie Blend Flavors
Each of these five smoothie-based flavors have real fruit juice in them. It's a good selection of flavors. For a while, I could only find this on the Jelly Belly website, but now I see it in stores everywhere.
|  | Cherry Passion Fruit
This bean seems sticky when chewed; it keeps sticking to my teeth! The flavor bursts into your mouth. It’s a somewhat bold flavor. I’ve never really had passion fruit before, and my aunt says she doesn’t really like it, and she doesn’t care much for the bean. I can’t even taste cherry in this bean. But the bean is pretty and pink, and that’s all what matters. |  | Mandarin Orange Mango
The orange flavor jumps right onto your tongue when you start. The mango is subtle and not unpleasant (remember that I don’t like mango very much). It could use a little more orange flavoring, but the taste lingers after you’re done eating the bean. It’s a nice bean. |  | Mixed Berry
A pleasant, flavorful gift of berries is given to your taste buds. The bean is smooth like cream or jelly. And it tastes creamy and yogurty. The first bite gives a burst of berry. Blackberry is a very prominent flavor occurrence, and the best part is that there are no seeds in it. This is my favorite of the Smoothie Blend flavors, which is surprising to me, since I don’t usually care much for berries. |  | Pineapple Pear
Now I don’t care much for pears or pineapples, so this bean isn’t really one of my favorites. The pineapple and the pear are both definitely present in this bean—in fact, I’d say that it closely resembles the combination of the Pear and Pineapple beans. It’s a little tart, but definitely has a bold flavor. |  | Strawberry Banana
At first, the banana flavor seeps through, then you’re smacked in the face with the hint of a pleasant strawberry flavor. I tried eating the Top Banana and Strawberry Jam beans together to compare the taste—Strawberry Banana Smoothie has a much more subtle flavor and the strawberry was much less prominent. This would be a good flavor to use in an ice cream bean recipe with a if you were going for a banana float. |
Soda Pop Shoppe
Acting on popular demand by fans for more soda pop flavors such as A&W Root Beer, A&W Cream Soda, and Dr Pepper, Jelly Belly introduced three new soda pop flavors, and is selling them as independent flavors specially packaged bottles as well as together in a bag as a set. They're available on the Jelly Belly website. By the way, when eaten with ice, none of the beans are easy to eat, nor do they taste any better.
|  | Orange Crush
Perhaps the orangiest tasting bean I've ever enjoyed. It tastes pretty darn close to the actual soda pop. It seems to have a bit of zestiness, and that's always a good thing. It's really sweet and enjoyable, and has a pretty bold flavor. I like it! The flavor's totally unlike Orange Juice and Orange Sherbet, for the record. |  | Grape Crush
Mmmmm, it's really grapey! It's a fun, deep, bold grapey flavor. The grape taste really is strong, and it seems really juicy, too. For some reason, I think it tastes a lot like the purple-flavored Hawaiian Punch. I don't mind eating many of these in a row. Yummy! I really ought to try drinking real Grape Crush and comparing the flavor to that. |  | 7UP
Meh, this tastes very similar to the usual Lemon Lime bean. There really isn't much that's really new, but it tastes slightly tangier, in my opinion. The bean is colored very light green, and is somewhat translucent, like A&W Cream Soda. Are you wondering why Jelly Belly didn't go with other flavors such as Coca-Cola or Mountain Dew for this Soda Pop Shoppe collection? All six of the beverages in this mix are produced by one company: Cadbury Schweppes. | Already-mentioned flavors included in the Soda Pop Shoppe set:
A&W Cream Soda, A&W Root Beer, Dr Pepper
Other Flavors
Here is a listing of other flavors, including the rookie flavors and seasonal flavors. Rookie beans are available pretty much only from the Jelly Belly website, though I've seen them in some stores.
|  | Candy Cane (seasonal) A Christmassy bean only available during the holiday season, Candy Cane is infused with super-duper peppermint flavor even more extreme than real candy canes. One thing I don't like about real candy canes is that the longer you hold them, the stickier they get, and for some reason, I always seem to accidentally snap the candy cane in half before finishing it. The jelly bean, however, is very difficult to snap into two pieces, so in a way, it is much easier to eat. |  | Pomegranate (rookie) I personally think that pomegranates are some of the most terrifying fruits on the planet. That is, once I saw what was on the inside. It doesn't look all too appetizing in there. I've personally too frightened to try a real pomegranate. But you know what? The beans themselves aren't bad. I was expecting something horrible like Peach or Mango, but these beans are sweet, soft, and just a touch on the tart side. One is good by itself, but eating a mouthful of them is slightly overwhelming to me. The beans contain juice from real pomegranates, as well as some extra added antioxidants and vitamin C (so it's healthy!). |
Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans
Below are the flavors inspired by the candy featured in the Harry Potter series. Some of these beans are downright nasty and make me barfy. However, Jelly Belly makes these, and while the flavors may be bad, at least the quality is good.
One of the worst mistakes I had ever made was mixing the Bertie Bott's beans into the candy machine with the normal 49-flavor beans; you couldn't tell them apart! I was going for the ultimate "every flavor" kind of deal, but nobody wanted any because of the risk of getting dirt or vomit. I eventually ended up hand-sorting the Bertie Bott's beans from the regular beans, but I wasn't sure that I got them all because many of them are similar in color.
|  | Bacon (retired) It tastes more like bacon bits than ordinary bacon, but it's still an interesting flavor. It doesn't have any real bacon in it (Jelly Belly doesn't use animal products in their beans). Interestingly, Bacon is the first meat-flavored bean available (unless you want to count Earthworm, which was released before bacon; I don't think Earthworm should count). The shell is crunchy, but the inside is chewy. The texture reminds me of how some parts of bacon is hard and crunchy while the rest is soft and chewy. Bacon jelly beans are brown with white spots, which is easy enough to distinguish from other beans. |  | Black Pepper Wow, this is very very peppery. Of course, Jelly Belly had to use real pepper in it, so it's absolutely peppery. When you bite it, you can feel the grains of pepper explode out of the shell. You can feel it in your nose—that's how peppery and spicy this yucky whoabad jellybean is. In fact, I felt as though I nearly had to sneeze when I ate one of these. The taste lingers on your tongue after you swallow it! Hey, we have pepper, but where's the salt flavor? Oh, I guess we'll get there when we investigate Sardine. | | Booger A pretty gross bean, if I may say so myself (which I may). Gross gross gross. Not only is the flavor bad, but the texture isn't so hot either. It's very chewy, perhaps one of the chewiest beans there are. The picture to the left is misleading; the bean is light green with brown flecks—just like real boogers! In the Harry Potter movie, they call these "bogeys". Isn't that fun to say? "Bogey!" |  | Dirt I like the Dirt jelly beans. Similarly to Black Pepper, the inside seems to be designed so that when you bite it, the grainy particles explode out of it. It genuinely tastes like dirt! I gave one to my aunt Karen. She had to spit it out. She said it got worse as she ate it and left a yucky flavor in her mouth for hours! Dirt's dark brown coloration can be easily confused with other beans if you aren't paying attention. |  | Earthworm Blech! Here is my least favorite flavor out of all the Jelly Belly jelly beans. As if thinking about eating an earthworm is gross enough, the flavor is horrific. It's the nastiest flavor anyone could ever imagine. And that's not even the worst part! It crunches when you bite it! Eeyuck! It's disgusting! My goodness, I hope they didn't use real earthworm in those beans (no, they didn't). Earthworm is dark red with black splotches on it; try not to confuse it with other beans! |  | Earwax According to myself, Earwax is a pretty awful too, in texture alone (but nowhere near as bad as Earthworm!). The texture seems to have little bits of chewy wax in it! It's similar in texture to Peanut Butter, which is sad because I sometimes can't eat Peanut Butter jelly beans without being reminded of this flavor. The flavor of Earwax is repulsive. | Picture
Not Available | Fruit Punch (retired)
A somewhat juicy, fruity flavor, it tastes just like the kind of punch you'd expect to ladle out of a punch bowl. Honestly, I must say that the flavor wasn't all there, but I must confess that the Fruit Punch bean I tasted is more than five years old, so one might expect some of the flavor to have left. I'm not sure, but this might be Hawaiian Punch, renamed for the Bertie Bott's collection. |  | Grass Oh boy, I bet my cat would love to eat the Grass jelly beans. Grass is his favorite food. It's interesting to eat them. Pretend you're a farm animal eating grass. Isn't that weird? It feels as though there were real grass ground up into the bean, but there isn't. This bean is actually pretty good tasting, which, unfortunately, probably says a lot about my taste in food. | Picture
Not Available | Horseradish (retired) Kit Potter wrote to me with information about the Horseradish bean before I was able to obtain one myself. She says that it tastes like sweet horseradish, which makes sense, seeing that the main ingredient in every bean is sugar. She also says that it's white in color, which makes it difficult to tell apart from other beans. I myself think it reminds me of Roasted Garlic, and my cousin Kevin thinks it tastes like a skunk. |  | Pickle
Usually, I pick pickles off my burgers. I've just never liked them. But you know what? I don't think that the flavor of this bean really is really all that assaulting. It has a sort of tanginess to it and I would say that the flavor is pretty darn accurate. It's definitely not the worst in this collection. | Picture
Not Available | Pumpkin Pie (retired)
I must honestly say that it closely resembles real Pumpkin Pie!! The taste is subtle but agreeable. Kevin doesn't like them ("Gross, it tastes like pumpkin pie!") but I like it myself. Oh, Kevin just told me more. "Actually, it tastes more like squash with brown pepper on it." My sister Stephanie thinks it just tastes like spices ("like nutmeg") and stuff. Am I the only one who thinks it tastes like pumpkin pie? I think this was the return of an old flavor called Gramma's Pumpkin Pie for the Bertie Bott's collections. |  | Rotten Egg This is easily a disgusting bean to chew on. It tastes pretty bad, like a real rotten egg. I don't even want to describe it, but I'll tell you that at first, it doesn't seem that bad, but the flavor gradually worsens until you spit it out, at which point, an awful aftertaste takes over and tries to kill your tongue. Rotten Egg beans are white with green spots. They probably would have gone with yellow spots, but buttered popcorn beans already have the white-with-yellow color combination. | | Sardine Yeeeuck! Sardine is another gross flavor. The texture is pretty much what you'd expect. It dissipates in your mouth in the most foul way imaginable. The taste is not great, either. The taste is incredibly strong. Even cutting open one of these babies with a knife releases a pungent odor. This bean contains codfish oil. Sardine is also hideously salty. It's unfortunately very similar in color to Soap. I hope you like seafood. |  | Sausage
Quite a bit weird at first, Sausage is anything but comforting. First things first, the bean is blood red inside, which is quite a bit icky! For one thing, I don't really truly think that this tastes like any sausage I've really eaten. I'm sorry, but it's really hard to describe the flavor. At least subliminally, I think it tastes a lot like the old retired Bacon flavor. Perhaps it's a bit too peppery. Ugh, I'm getting too old to be eating these Bertie Bott's beans. I don't enjoy them anymore. |  | Soap It's my favorite out of the Bertie Bott's beans. It's close in color to Sardine, so you have to be careful. It's very close to white in color, just like a real bar of soap! It's not every day that you can eat soap without worrying about being blinded by soap poisoning. So... this is what it must be like to have your mouth washed out with soap... | Picture
Not Available | Spaghetti (retired) It's interesting that it tastes like noodles. Spaghetti is one of the least lethal beans in this collection. It's interesting that most of these Bertie Bott's beans are designed to be disgusting. What about less-disgusting-but-realistic flavors, like Cheeseburger, Steel, Salami, Milk, Cilantro, Cat Food, Toothpaste, Maple Syrup, Wood, Water, or Newspaper? Every flavor doesn't have to be intentionally disgusting... | | Spinach (retired) Spinach? I don't think real spinach is gross, as long as there's enough ranch dressing to drench it in, but somehow, they managed to make this bean nasty. It's pretty close in flavor, though, so maybe it's the texture or something. |  | Vomit
When most people think of a vomit-flavored jelly bean, they would say something like "That is uncalled-for!" or "Gag City!". Vomit is a socially-unacceptable jelly bean. If you told someone you were eating one of these disgusting beans, they would ask you, "What are you, a sick puppy?" Vomit is one gross flavor. Disgusting. Icky. It's the grossest bean on the planet. Eating one of these may as well cause you to vomit. It's light yellow in color with green and red specks. The coloration is distinct, thank goodness. | Already-mentioned flavors included in the current Bertie Bott's set:
Blueberry, Buttered Popcorn, Grape Jelly, Lemon Drop, Sizzling Cinnamon (as "Cinnamon"), Toasted Marshmallow, Tutti-Fruitti, Very Cherry (as "Cherry")
The Ant Bully Sweet Rocks
I found a small box of these beans at Linens 'n Things in July of 2006, and had no idea what The Ant Bully was. I instantly assumed that it is yet another animated movie, this time with a cross-promotional food tie-in with Jelly Belly. I decided to buy the box of jelly beans to try out the new flavors. I was already expecting Lawn Clippings to taste like Bertie Bott's Grass flavor, and also guessed that Ant Hill would taste like Dirt.  In the movie (not that I've seen it), the ants head into the Ant Bully's house and occasionally come across normally sized jelly beans, which happen to be of the Jelly Belly brand. The stupid ants call the jelly beans "Sweet Rocks". Since the jelly beans are so much larger than the ants, they argue over which color beans they should carry back to their anthill. The ants reportedly love eating jelly beans as much as I do.
|  | Alka Root
Not having any idea what "alka root" is, I was hesitant to try this bean. I suspected that it would taste like beer, given that the word "alka" sounds like "alcohol." But my hesitation was unfounded. It tastes like root beer. That's it. I would hesitate to call this a new flavor—it's just A&W Root Beer with different coloration. I'm 100% sure that this is the same thing. Alka Root has a bluish-gray color with brown splotches. |  | Ant Hill
Tastes just like Dirt. Looks like Dirt. Jelly Belly's being lazy. These are the same flavors as the Bertie Bott's beans! I don't have anything more to say about this. Just dirt. |  | Caterpillar
Surprisingly mild, Caterpillar isn't very gross at all. This was extremely surprising to me. I was expecting it to taste absolutely terrible. I couldn't place the flavor, but my cousin Kevin said it resembled bubble gum—it kinda does—it tastes a bit like bubble-gum-flavored mouthwash, which is weird. My aunt Karen (the same one who had to spit out Dirt) was expecting it to be grainy and hairy like a real caterpillar. It doesn't taste buggy at all. It's just a kinda sweet, nondescript flavor. Caterpillar is bluish-gray with yellow splotchery. |  | Lawn Clippings
Yes, it tastes like Grass. It's even has the same coloration as Grass. Oh, how horribly disappointing this Sweet Rocks collection was. The flavors are nearly all recycled from Bertie Bott's beans! I suppose that this is a good mix for those who want to try interesting flavors without the danger of flavors like Rotten Egg and Vomit, but I was expecting more. I was let down today. If you don't mind, I'm going to cry myself to sleep. | Already-mentioned flavors included in the Sweet Rocks set:
Berry Blue, Bubble Gum, Buttered Popcorn, Caramel Apple, Caramel Corn, Chocolate Pudding, Cotton Candy, Grape Jelly, Lemon Drop, Red Apple, Strawberry Jam, Toasted Marshmallow, Top Banana, Tutti-Fruitti, Very Cherry, Watermelon | | |
Bean Boozled
More info to come! | BEAN
IMAGE | Bean Name
Bean description | | Skunk Spray | Licorice | | Rotten Egg | Buttered Popcorn | | Ear Wax | Cafe Latte | | Booger | Juicy Pear | | Baby Wipes | Coconut | | Pencil Shavings | Top Banana | | Vomit | Peach | | Moldy Cheese | Caramel Corn | | Black Pepper | Plum |
Already-mentioned flavors included in the Bean Boozled set:
Buttered Popcorn, Café Latte, Caramel Corn, Coconut, Juicy Pear, Licorice, Peach, Plum, Top Banana |
Retired Flavors
Of course, some flavors are more popular than others, so Jelly Belly retires flavors that don't fare particularly well. Here are the retired flavors. Some of them didn't make it past the rookie stage. For retired Bertie Bott's beans, be sure to look up above in the Bertie Bott's section.
|  | Apricot I swear, it is one of the softest, easiest-to-chew beans you can find. Apricot presents a fresh twist to your day. Jelly Belly boasts that they use natural ingredients in their beans to create that "true-to-life" flavor that jelly bean connoisseurs truly admire and deserve. Real apricot purée is shoved into these beans. It truly tastes like an apricot you might pluck out of the produce department of a grocery store. My grandma and my next-door neighbor both say that they like this flavor. | Picture
Not Available | Black Forest Cake It tastes quite a bit like cherry. Black Forest cake (called Black Forest gateau some places) is chocolate cake with cherries between the layers, and I think that this bean accurately resembles that flavor. But yeah, I think the cherry flavor is much more prominent in the bean--the chocolate is hiding somewhere. |  | Buttered Toast The Buttered Toast bean, sadly, did not live up to my expectations. Even though the coloration of the bean is inviting (the inside is white, like real toast!), Buttered Toast does not have the fresh-out-of-the-toaster taste that real buttered toast has. It also, unfortunately, does not have the lovely crunch of toast. Thanks, Jelly Belly, but I think I'll stick with real toast. I don't know about you, but I love to slather a whole lot of butter all over my toast and eat the whole thing in one bite. That's the best way to eat toast. |  | Cinnamon Toast Immediately, you can taste the burst of sugar and cinnamon when you bite into this delectable, chewy bean. Honestly, it tastes even better than the real thing, and the best part is that you don't have to make a huge mess getting sugar and cinnamon all over the counter. This must be the sweetest bean there ever was, but unfortunately, it's been retired. I will not rest until I get my Cinnamon Toast back! I love this bean! |  | Mystery Flavor
This bean was created for the Mystery Flavor Game in early 2006 and is easily one of the most intriguing-looking beans there is. I learned before buying it that it was supposed to taste like an ice cream sandwich. I was excited to try it, but was bitterly disappointed. It's nowhere near as cold as ice cream. Just the same temperature as any other bean. Meh. No, honestly, it's a very sweet bean. It's just that... I dunno... I don't think it tastes exactly like a real ice cream sandwich. Because ice cream sandwiches contain vanilla ice cream, I thought it would be logical to compare this bean to the French Vanilla bean. They taste pretty similar, but Ice Cream Sandwich seems a bit more chocolaty. But still, it's not quite right. | Picture
Not Available | Peppermint Stick
If you read my description for Candy Cane up above, you might not be surprised to hear that this sounds exactly the same. It's a fun flavor that I guess I enjoy eating a whole lot. You may not be able to find Peppermint Stick in the Bertie Bott's mixes anymore, but you can get it in the Christmas Mix. |  | Roasted Garlic A rich, creamy flavor, the Roasted Garlic bean is truly a gourmet bean. It has garlic purée and powder in it. It tastes like garlic spread—the kind you would spread on bread. In fact, perhaps you could eat Roasted Garlic and Buttered Toast together... Strike that, the combination of the two flavors is awful; it must be an acquired taste. | Other retired flavors:
Apple Mint, Baked Apple, Baked Bean, Baked Cinnamon Apple, Blackberry Brandy, Bloody Mary, Boysenberry, Buttered Rum, Butterscotch, Caribbean Mix (Mango, Papaya, Clementine, Lychee, Pine-Guava, and Maracuya), Carrot Cake, Champagne Punch, Chocolate Banana, Chocolate Cherry Cake (this might have been Black Forest Cake), Chocolate Fudge, Chocolate Mint, Cinnamon Apple, Cinnamon Danish, Cinnamon Popcorn, Coffee Bean, Coffee Mocha, Cola, Cookies & Cream, Cranberry, Eggnog (Seasonal), English Toffee (Heath Toffee), Espresso, Gingerbread (Seasonal), Guava, Honey Graham Cracker, Hot Chocolate (Seasonal), Hot Cider (Seasonal), Ice Blue Mint, Iced Tea With Lemon, Irish Creme, Key Lime Pie, Lemon Meringue, Mai Tai, Mandarin Chocolate, Marzipan, Mint Trio (Peppermint, Spearmint, Wintergreen--I really wanted to try these, but they were too expensive at $72 for 10 lbs.), Oatmeal Raisin Cookie, Papaya, Passion Fruit, Plum Perfect, Polynesian Punch, Red Licorice, Sweet Ginger, Totally Mint, and Wildberry (Sour Cherry, Red Raspberry, Blueberry & Black Raspberry). |
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Do you have any opinions or facts about any specific jelly bean flavors? I want to hear from you; tell me what you think! And let me know if you have any info about retired flavors that I don't have in my guide, especially the Bertie Bott's beans! Readers, help me complete this guide! Thank you, Karen, Kevin, and Stephanie for helping me taste test flavors and giving additional reviews for this guide. I'd also like to thank my neighbors, Jesse and Alyssa, for being willing to review the Bertie Bott's beans after I'd grown weary of eating them. Thanks to my friend Melissa for telling me how the beans are used in The Ant Bully, saving me from having to see it myself. And thanks again, Kit, for the info on Horseradish! And big thanks once again to Aunt Karen, for getting me hooked on these things.
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