Jelly Belly Information

Basic Information

Jelly Belly is the company that makes the jelly beans of the same name. In my opinion, these are the best tasting jelly beans around. They use natural flavorings to provide true-to-life flavors. So when they have an uncommon jelly bean flavor such as Buttered Popcorn, it's really going to taste like popcorn. Even if you're not a big jelly bean fan, I'd suggest that you give Jelly Belly a try. You might be surprised. This is clearly just the barest background about the product. If you want more information, check out the official web site at JellyBelly.com. The latest updates are on the What's New page. By the way, if you're a fan like I am, think about joining the Taste Bud Club -- a two year membership is only $15 and includes quarterly mailings of a newsletter and free sample of jelly beans, sometimes of new flavors, (yum!) plus you get a T-shirt among other things in the introductory package.

Menu of Flavors

As of spring 2002, there are 50 official Jelly Belly flavors, 10 more than there used to be for many years (apparently almost two decades). According to the official web site, these are the flavors that area available all year long. They produce other flavors that are released for the holidays each year. There are also new flavors, sometimes called "rookie flavors", that are released to the public. Depending on their popularity they may make it into the line-up of official flavors while less popular official flavors may be dropped. For pictures showing the colors of each flavor bean, try JellyBelly.com's menu. It's not alphabetically sorted, but you get some info about the flavor and what it says about you if it's your favorite :) when you click a bean. A similar menu can be found on this UK favorite flavor page. Sorry, but the contest there isn't for us Americans. The advantage of the UK menu is that it's alphabetized; I have no idea why the US menu isn't. Also take a look at http://www.weirdweb.net/jelly/menu.html which includes tips on distinguishing similar colored beans from each other.

New 50 Official Flavors: Berry Blue (bright blue), Blueberry (dark blue), Bubble Gum (pale pink), Buttered Popcorn (white w/yellow), Cafe Latte (?), Cantaloupe [light orange], Cappuccino (brown w/white), Caramel Apple (dark tan), Caramel Corn (ecru w/rust), Chocolate Pudding (brown), Cinnamon [dark red], Coconut (white), Cotton Candy (bright pink), A&W Cream Soda (cream), Crushed Pineapple (yellow), Dr. Pepper (reddish brown), French Vanilla (white w/speckles), Grape Jelly [purple], Green Apple (green), Island Punch (lavender), Jalapeno (?), Juicy Pear (speckled green), Kiwi (opaque lime), Lemon (bright yellow), Lemon Drop (?), Lemon Lime (light green), Licorice (black), Mango (?), Margartia (green w/dark green), Orange Juice (orange), Orange Sherbet (neon orange), Peach (speckled orange), Peanut Butter (tan), Pina Colada (light yellow), Pink Grapefruit [pinkish orange], Plum (?), Raspberry (maroon), Red Apple (opaque red), A&W Root Beer (light brown), Sizzling Cinnamon (red w/yellow), Strawberry Cheesecake (pink w/red), Strawberry Daiquiri (speckled pink), Strawberry Jam (red w/speckles), Tangerine (pale orange), Toasted Marshmallow (tan w/brown), Top Banana (speckled yellow), Tutti-Frutti (bright speckled pink), Very Cherry (red), Watermelon (dark green w/red), Wild Blackberry (?).

Added: Berry Blue, Cafe Latte, Caramel Apple, Caramel Corn, Dr. Pepper, French Vanilla, Kiwi, Lemon Drop, Mango, Plum, Red Apple, Strawberry Jam, Wild Blackberry

Removed: Champagne Punch, Hawaiian Punch, Peppermint Stick

P.S. -- colors in parentheses are from a bag of assorted 50 flavors; colors in square brackets are from a bag of the old 40 flavors (below) and are being used to fill in on flavors not listed on the 50 flavor bag I had.

Old 40 Official Flavors: Blueberry (blue), Bubble Gum (pale pink), Buttered Popcorn (white w/yellow), Cantaloupe (light orange), Cappuccino (brown w/white), Champagne Punch (mottled pink), Chocolate Pudding (brown), Cinnamon (dark red), Coconut (white), Cotton Candy (bright pink), A&W Cream Soda (cream), Crushed Pineapple (yellow), Grape Jelly (purple), Green Apple (green), Hawaiian Punch (ruby red), Island Punch (lavender), Jalapeno (none given), Juicy Pear (speckled green), Lemon (bright yellow), Lemon Lime (light green), Licorice (black), Margarita (green w/dk.green), Orange Juice (orange), Orange Sherbet (neon orange), Peach (speckled orange), Peanut Butter (tan), Peppermint Stick (pink w/red), Pina Colada (light yellow), Pink Grapefruit (pinkish orange), Raspberry (maroon), A&W Root Beer (light brown), Sizzling Cinnamon (red w/yellow), Strawberry Cheesecake (speckled white), Strawberry Daiquiri (speckled pink), Tangerine (pale orange), Toasted Marshmallow (tan w/brown), Top Banana (speckled yellow), Tutti-Fruitti (bright speckled pink), Very Cherry (red), Watermelon (dark green w/red).

As far as the non-official flavors go, here's a list of at least some of them. I found these listed on various web sites and Jelly Belly product packaging. Don't count on all of these being readily available. Some probably are available now, but others may be old flavors that were tried but are no longer made or seasonal flavors only available a few months of the year at most. I don't really know, this is just a collection of other Jelly Belly flavors I've found listed somewhere.

Non-Official Flavors: Apricot, Buttered Rum, Buttered Toast, Candy Cane, Carrot Cake, Champagne Bubbles, Champagne Punch, Chocolate Cherry Cake, Cinnamon Danish, Cinnamon Popcorn, Cranberry, Espresso, Fruit Bowl, Gingerbread, Gramma's Pumpkin Pie, Hawaiian Punch, Honey Graham Cracker, Hot Chocolate, Hot Cider, Key Lime Pie, Passion Fruit, Peppermint Stick, Pineapple, Sours (Apple, Blueberry, Cherry, Grape, Lemon, Orange, Peach, Raspberry, Strawberry, Watermelon), Spearmint, Sugar Free (Buttered Popcorn, Cherry, Green Apple, Juicy Pear, Lemon, Licorice, Pineapple, Sizzling Cinnamon, Strawberry, Tangerine), Sweet Ginger, Wildberry.

Rookie Flavors: Since most of the old set of "Rookie Flavors" became part of the new official 50 flavors, there's been a fairly big change to this list. The newest menu I got from Jelly Belly (in a 50 flavor sampler gift box) says the new flavors are: Apricot, Buttered Toast, Chocolate Cherry Cake, Honey Graham Cracker.

Recipes

While Jelly Belly flavors taste great by themselves, eating one bean at a time, you can also create some other good flavors by eating a couple at once thus combining the individual flavors together into a new one. Jelly Belly products normally include a menu and a few recipes on or inside the packaging. I also found a few web sites with recipes and putting all of this together created the following list of recipes. Ones I got from Jelly Belly in some way (web site, printed menus, packaging, Taste Bud Club mailings, etc.) are tagged with (JB) just for reference. Here's the first page of the JellyBelly.com recipes page. Below is a section of links which is where I found most of the recipes that I didn't take right from Jelly Belly.

A Few Links

Closing

OK, so this isn't a fabulous site. It wasn't exactly meant to be; I made the page to gather together all the recipes I found so that I'd have the list in one place. Still, I hope that you've found something of interest here. Enjoy! :) Oh, by the way, if you came here via search engine or something and bypassed my main pages, here are links to my index page and my hobbies and interests page. The other primary page on my site is the about me page.