The next best thing to the flavor of chocolate is the strawberry flavor. There are candies in the market today that claim to use real fruit ingredients. In the case of real strawberries,
strawberries are very nutritious containing a lot of vitamin C; they also act as a good source for manganese and vitamin K. The berry is also known for its content of potassium, folic acid, riboflavin, vitamin B6, vitamin B5, magnesium, copper and omega3 fatty acids.Strawberries also have high levels of antioxidants and phytonutrients that are known to act against the free radicals which cause damage to the cells and are perceived to lead cancer.
So we thus see that candies with a strawberry filling are much more that what meets the eye. Strawberry candies are mostly in the shade of pink ranging from dark to the lightest shade of pink. The wrappers of these candies too are of the similar color or sometimes red, white or both with pictures of real strawberries on them.
Some types of strawberry candies that are popular in the market today are mentioned below-
Chews: These are soft toffee like candies with either the essence of strawberry or which are made using real strawberry pulp. These can be chewed on and unlike gum they retain their flavor until the very end.
Hard Candy: These are candies which you leave in your mouth and suck on. The hard candies you get today are made in a better way than they were in the past, which help the candy taste better and do not bruise your mouth if you chew on a few one after the other. Some of the hard strawberry candy makers' today claim that they use real strawberry juice in the making of their candy.
Strawberry and cream hard toffees: These are hard candies which has a mixture of two flavors that complement each other. This is taken from the very popular desert theme of eating strawberries with cream. This hard candy is a beautiful mixture of white and pink as it has a mixture of taste and looks in relations to strawberries and cream.
