LIFESAVERS Gummies Sours

 

Candy isn't a meal; it shouldn't be, at least. By even the most generous of definitions, candy is a snack, an indulgence akin to (yet wholly separate from) dessert.  While sweet candies might embrace and reformat the same palette notes as a traditional dessert dish, though, sour candies occupy a relatively foreign space. With no meal analogue and no nutritional value, how can one explain the ubiquity of sour candy in modern culture?

Well, because it's so rad!

LIFESAVERS Gummies Sours are not sour. They have a delicious citric acid coating, and they are obviously more sour than any other gummy LIFESAVER. They are sour candy, but the acidity is simply in service to larger flavor profiles. To explain further, I guess I'll get into the flavors included:

Our first clue comes in the first flavor - Tangy Cherry. A bright, juicy sour cherry flavor that incorporates hints of lime to stitch the citrus theme together. The tangiest of the bunch, this deep red gummy ring harkens back to it's namesake's classic cherry flavor, operating as both the nostalgic touchstone and as the tonal center for this flavor collection.

Next is Watermelon.  The bright green gummy is the sweetest and most delicate of the bunch. While the flavor does echo the idea of real watermelon, it resembles more the saccharine syrup of a watermelon Jolly Rancher.

The operatic third note is our beloved Orange.  What can I say about Orange? It looks orange, it tastes orange. A pure citrus blast that tastes the most like it's actual fruit, it still is closer to the taste of an old-school orange slice candy.

Strawberry is next. Like Watermelon, it is sweet and delicate. Unlike Watermelon, however, it tastes nothing like the fruit it shares a name with. Instead, it is cut from the same cloth that many strawberry candies are, borrowing notes from strawberry and raspberry to fabricate a pink hybrid only possible in candy.

Which brings us to Black Raspberry. The heavy hitter of the pack, as one would expect a raspberry flavor to be. While it is nominally the sourest of the bunch, that is a low bar that means little overall. Itself a hybrid of blackberry and raspberry notes, the deep purple gummy is unafraid to pattern itself after a food that doesn't exist in nature.

By tempering the acid levels, curating the flavor combinations, and developing around a tonal center, this print ensures that every bite is a rad one, whether you eat them one at a time or by the handful. I haven't spoken about the form factor yet, but it's a solid gummy, and this print is a worthy successor to the LiFESAVERS name.

i give it 86 radicals out of 100, and 3 hype out of 5, making it "yeah, hype"