Trolli – Sour Brite Octopus

I haven’t had a whole lot of Trolli gummies. Part of that is the fault of Haribo, having claimed the special space in my heart for number one gummy brand. That being said, Trolli seems to go for a younger audience in the sense that they have more flashy, colourful packaging, as well as candies. A lot of colours that don’t tend to be out in the natural wilderness can be found in a lot of the candies.

I guess I’m a kid at heart since that’s basically what drew me to these. Plus there’s an interesting shape to them which I don’t see often. Not in candies at least.

There’s cherry grape, orange lemon and strawberry blue-raspberry. Cherry grape reminds me of Kool-Aid in that it’s got that mixed berry flavour going for it. While I like the flavour, it’s also fairly artificial and there’s nothing super interesting about it. Just sort of like a classic hard candy flavour in gummy form. It’s not bad, but not my favourite.

Orange lemon is like an orange juice that had some extra lemon and citric acid thrown in – it’s only slightly tart and a little sour. Overall it’s just kind of like a lollipop, not too tart and mostly just sweet citrus. Not bad but probably my least favourite of the three.

The strawberry and blue raspberry one is probably my favourite one. Side note – this is one of those rare cases where green is used to depict strawberry. This was likely to avoid overlap in colours, but I though that was an interesting side note. The flavour is also sort of like a mixed berry, but this one seems to work more naturally. While the cherry and grape sort of clash somehow, this one seems like a natural continuation of each other. It’s hard to tell where the strawberry begins and the raspberry ends, and that’s a mark of it’s success.

The flavours seem to mixed into one, so there’s no real distinction between the two tone colours of the pieces. Kind of disappointing but it makes sense. I also have to give them kudos for coming up with a fun shape. It’s definitely a shape that a younger me would love to have played around with before stuffing into my grubby mouth.

The texture is not particularly firm like Haribo is, and tends to be much softer and more pliable. Not so soft that it disintegrates, but not firm enough that you would have to work your jaw very hard at any point in the experience.

While not super special in any way, I do see the merit of these. They are colourful and not super hard on the teeth so I can see how kids would be into this. Plus, octopi are an interesting shape for gummies. Can’t say it’s the best one, but it’s definitely unique enough to make me do a double take.