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Skittles
A brand of fruit-flavoured sweets, currently produced and marketed by the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, a division of Mars, Inc. They have hard sugar shells which carry the letter S. The inside is mainly sugar, corn syrup, and hydrogenated palm kernel oil along with fruit juice, citric acid, and natural and artificial flavours. The confectionary has been sold in a variety of flavour collections, such as Tropical and Wild Berry.
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- Part of Speech: noun
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- Industry/Domain: Candy & confectionary
- Category: Hard candy
- Company: Mars
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