Until January 1999, the green sweets were mint flavored. Hershey (the parent company at the time) changed them to lime after a customer survey found that mint was not a popular flavor.
Ingredients
As of January 2024, the ingredients listed on Jujyfruits boxes are:
In the 1970s, Jujyfruits held a promotion where customers could send five dollars and a token from a Jujyfruits carton to the Heide Candy Company and receive a brass buckle and leather belt in return.[2]
In popular culture
Jujyfruits was featured in the TV series Seinfeld's fifth-season finale, "The Opposite", and was also briefly mentioned in the sixth-season episode "The Scofflaw".
The main character of the romantic fantasy film Beastly features a main character (Lindy) with a penchant for Jujyfruits.