Ever since I can remember, I have been a confirmed gummy bear addict. I love gummy bears, particularly Haribo’s Gold Bears and Happy Cola (it does make me happy), but I’ll even deal in Trolli in a pinch. Of course, that the little, fruit-flavored gelatin bears are addictive shouldn’t be surprising—after all, in 1997, tobacco exec James Morgan, head of Philip Morris Co., claimed that tobacco is no more addictive than gummy bears.

But what do we really know about these tasty denizens of a gummy candy world? Here’s a quick and dirty on gummy bears:

 

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The exact recipe and method of production of the Haribo bears remains a closely guarded secret. And although there are many pretenders to the throne who’ve tried to usurp the gummy crown (Trolli, German inventors of the gummy worm, are a notable example), Haribo remains one of the largest manufacturers of

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In 1985, even Disney stepped in to capitalize on the popularity of the little bears, with a cartoon featuring a family of bouncy anthropomorphized bears called The Adventures of the Gummi Bears.

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