#Fruit Snacks

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A glass dish of sugar-dusted fruit jelly candies, the Fruit Gems style of confection
Food 1966–present

Sunkist Fruit Gems

Sugar-dusted pectin jelly squares in individual wax-paper twists — lemon, orange, grapefruit, raspberry, lime — equally at home in a deli-counter jar, a grandparent's candy dish, and a synagogue. The recipe descends from Christopher's Fruit Gems, the signature candy of Southern California's oldest candy company. Thrown at bar and bat mitzvahs for decades: soft enough not to injure, festive enough to 'sweeten' the occasion, and a genuinely airborne childhood memory for a whole community.

Video thumbnail — Kellogg's Yogos Commercial (2007)
Food 2006–c. 2010

Yogos

Kellogg's yogurt-coated fruit bits that came in a box, lived in lunchboxes, and vanished after about five years. Yogos reached shelves in 2006, spun off Bits and Sour Bits, and disappeared around 2010 as the sugar in a "yogurt" snack got a hard look; the company has said since that it has no plans to bring them back.