Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Maynards Wine Gums

Many of you are wondering if you can Maynards wine gums in Singapore.

The answer is yes.

I got it at Carrefour, Plaza Singapura (level 1). The sweet section obviously. I guess some of you wanted to get this because you watched the wine gum experiment by Charlie Mcdonnell on youtube.

(68 Orchard Road Plaza Singapura Singapore 238839) Last checked December 2011 (They are still selling it, search carefully)


Price: $4.50

They only have one type of packaging.

A little history and facts about wine gums:

1) Maynards was founded in 1896 by Charles Riley Maynard.

2)Maynards has since been bought by Cadbury and now sells over £50m of sweets.

3) Wine gums do not contain WINE. The name comes from the lingering, subtle fruit flavours that make it "similar to the experience of savouring a fine wine". In reference to this, the sweets have the names of alcoholic drinks on them, for example port, sherry, champagne, claret, gin, Rioja, Chablis and Burgundy.

Let's do a little wine gum experiment with my packet of wine gums.


(I ate one red and one yellow due to the lack of space)

Pathetic blackcurrant. So it's true that the flavors are not evenly distributed. The pastilles are chewy. Red-taste like strawberry, orange - orange, yellow - lemon, green - lime, black - blackcurrant. One good thing about it is that they don't stuck in my teeth unlike many pastilles.





Inspired by charlieissocoollike.

Maynards wine gum nutritional facts: (Per sweet)

Energy (75KJ) - 20calories
Protein -0.3g
Carbohydrates -4.1g
(of which sugars) - 3.0g
(of which saturated) -0.2g
Sodium -Trace

Ingredients: Glucose syrup, sugar, modified maize starch, gelatine (bovine), water, acids(malic, acetic, citric), vegetable oil, concentrated vegetable extracts (black carrot, spinach, stinging nettle, tumeric) Flavours, glazing agent (carnauba wax), colors (vegetable carbon, paprika extract, lutein.

contain: Sulphites. May contain milk, wheat.

Ratings:3 stars.

PS:Too much sweets is not good for the body.

2 comments:

  1. Stumbled upon your blog when searching for Maynards Wine Gums. :) seems like carrefour no longer sells it now. Was there yesterday..

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    1. hey sorry i discovered your post late. i went back again to carrefour in plaza singapura. They still have it in the sweet section. Maybe they went out of stock that time you went. I missed it the first time. It is below eye level. Hope I'm not too late.

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