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How many flavors does POP ROCKS® offer?

From classic favorites to bold new discoveries, a large variety of flavors is waiting to be discovered: Strawberry, Watermelon, Tropical, Blue Razz, Original Cherry, Cotton Candy, Green Apple, Grape, Bubble Gum, and POP ROCKS DIPS are all available year-round, but also look for all the new limited edition MYSTERY FLAVOR now in the market for a limited amount of time.

If you want to know if he really exploded when he drank soda and ate POP ROCKS®, the truth is that… he did not! In fact, if you can believe it, the actor who played little Mikey lives today in a completely unexploded form in NY. Because of the carbon dioxide in the product, a rumor was started that if you drank a can of soda in conjuction with eating a pouch of POP ROCKS®, your stomach would explode. The rumors became so bad that the FDA even set up a hot line in Seattle (WA) to dispel the rumor and assure parents that the candy was safe for children and it would not cause the stomach to explode if mixed with carbonated drinks.
POP ROCKS® are small pieces of hard candy that have been gasified with carbon dioxide under superatmospheric pressure. When these gasified sugar granules come in contact with moisture, in someone’s mouth or in water, milk, soft drinks, etc, the candy dissolves and the gas retained inside the carbon dioxide bubbles is released, causing the characteristic crackling and fizzing sounds.
Carbon dioxide, the gas used in sodas worldwide. A pouch of POP ROCKS® contains less carbonation than half a can of soda.

“Carbonated Candy” was originally invented in 1956 by William A. Mitchell, a chemist at the General Foods company looking for a way to make instant carbonated soda (think Coke) by somehow trapping carbon dioxide into candy tablets. But when the instant soda experiment didn’t work out, the formula was forgotten and put away. Twenty years later, another chemist came across the formula, reworked it a little, and turned it into POP ROCKS®.

Though POP ROCKS® had been thoroughly tested and found innocuous, the exploding candy still startled residents when it was first released. The FDA arranged a telephone hotline to assure anxious parents that the popping candy would not cause children to choke. The popular buzz was that mixing the candy with carbonated drinks would cause your stomach to explode.

General Foods was battling “exploded kid” rumors as early as 1979, a mere four years after the product went to market. They took out full-page ads in 45 majors publications, wrote some 50,000 letters to school principals around the country, and sent the confection’s inventor on the road to explain to all that POP ROCKS® generate less gas than half a can of soda and ingesting them could induce nothing worse in the human body than a hearty, non-life-threatening belch. Despite all these measures, the rumors of the urban legend abound even to this day.

But rumors die hard. POP ROCKS® were briefly discontinued in the mid-1980’s.

Rising from the rumor-fanned flames just a few years later, today POP ROCKS® continues to be a national brand full of energy.

Our goal is to provide safe, high-quality candies for our consumers. The primary source of information about the allergen status of our products is the labelling on the packaging in which the product is sold. Consumers should always read the ingredient statement and any allergen statement before consumption to ensure a product does not contain any ingredients of concern.

All POP ROCKS® items contain LACTOSE (MILK). POP ROCKS® Gum contains LACTOSE (MILK) and also SOY (in the gum base). POP ROCKS® Chocolate contains MILK, LACTOSE (MILK) and also SOY. POP ROCKS®  Green Apple also contains Tartrazine (Yellow#5).

POP ROCKS®  items are free of gluten, peanuts, tree nuts, eggs, fish and shellfish.

Before consumption, please always check the labelling on the package for further information about ingredients. Any question, please request to customerservice@pop-rocks.com

POP ROCKS® items currently sold in the USA have NOT been knowingly or intentionally produced using genetic engineering, and they have been segregated from and not knowingly or intentionally commingled with food that may have been produced with genetic engineering at any time. For more information, please contact customerservice@pop-rocks.com

Yes, they are gluten-free and preservative-free.

Email us at customerservice@pop-rocks.com and we will get back to you.

Please email info@zetaespacial.com / info@pop-rocks.com or call (011) 34 93 588 76 77 in Spain.

Please email info@zetaespacial.com / info@pop-rocks.com or call (011) 34 93 588 76 77 in Spain.

Email us at customerservice@pop-rocks.com

Email us at customerservice@pop-rocks.com