Gushers Flavour Mixers
It still shocks me that Gushers can get away with stocking their product in the fruit snack aisle, when realistically lit has just as, if not more sugar and less nutritional value than a lot of candies. But that’s neither here nor there. I’m not here to paint a target on my back and make enemies of Big Cereal and Big Sugar.
Unlike the old box with lunchbox sized pouches, this is an adult shaped pouch. I say adult but realistically no adult should be trying to consume this entire pouch alone either. Not that it should stop you if you so choose. No judgement.
Visually, I really can only tell apart the two colours, since everything is sticky and sort of meshes together. The flavours we’re working with here are raspberry lemonade, strawberry peach, and orange cherry. The raspberry lemonade has that distinct lemon fruit snack flavour where you know it’s lemon but it’s sweet enough that there’s no tartness or any acidity. The strawberry peach has a very pleasant peach flavour followed by the strawberry on the back end . The orange cherry flavour is the most like a fruit punch, and has a slight orange flavour to it that works pretty well with the cherry all things considered.
All three flavours have sort of a fruit punch base flavour to it, and seem to have the other flavours added on top of it, if that makes sense at all. It could of course also just be the after taste.
The texture is just as I remember them, the candy part is not exactly chewy or hard, but it is very sticky and not teeth friendly when you try to chew them. I usually prefer to let them sit in the mouth to warm up and bit before biting into them to get to the syrup. The syrup to candy ratio is pretty low, so don’t expect anything to actually gush unless you bite really fast really hard. Which now that I think about it, is probably a good thing given how viscous and sticky the syrup is.
These itches that part of my brain that remembers Gushers fondly, and for better or worse, it’s exactly as I remember it. Sticky, sweet and messy to eat, something about it just draws me in on a primal level and makes them enjoyable. Maybe it’s all the sugar, but there’s a hold it has on me, and it just feels wrong, and yet so right.
