Kinder Joy (formerly known as Kinder Merendero in Italy and Bahrain) is a

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made by

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company

Ferrero Ferrero (Italian: , Spanish: ) is a surname of Italian (from Piedmont) and Spanish origin that means 'smith', the person who works with iron, in parallel with surnames like Ferraro, Ferrari and Smith. Notable people with the surname Ferrero inclu ...

as part of its Kinder brand of products. It has plastic egg-shaped packaging that splits into two; one half contains layers of cocoa and milk cream, and the other half contains a toy and a spoon on top of the wrapper. Kinder Joy was first launched in

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in 2001 and was sold in 170 countries.

Overview

Kinder Joy is a brand within the Kinder line of chocolate products sold by Ferrero. It has a plastic egg-shaped package with a tab to open it into two halves. One sealed half contains layers of

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and milk-flavoured creams topped with two cocoa

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spheres, to be eaten with an included spoon. The other half contains a toy. , Kinder Joy is produced in

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, and

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. Its main ingredients include sugar, vegetable oils (palm and sunflower), milk and wheat.

History

Ferrero launched Kinder Joy in Italy in 2001. It has been sold in Spain since 2004, in Germany since May 2006 and in China and India since 2007. It was launched in Australia and the United States in 2018. In 2011, Ferrero opened a factory in

Baramati Baramati ( aːɾamət̪iː is a city, a tehsil and a municipal council in Pune district in the state of Maharashtra, India. The city is about 100 KM (62 miles) southeast of the city of Pune and about 250 KM from Mumbai. Baramati is located ...

, India, to make the eggs, in addition to other products including

Tic Tacs Tic Tac (stylized as "tic tac") is a brand of small, hard mint manufactured by the Italian company Ferrero. They were first produced in 1969 and are now available in a variety of flavours in over 100 countries. Tic Tacs are usually sold in sma ...

. In 2015, the company opened its first factory in China in the Xiaoshan District of Hangzhou, which produced Kinder Joy as its first manufacturing line. Kinder Joy was one of the highest selling candy products in the Chinese market and had received Nielsen China’s Breakthrough Innovation Award. Kinder Joy became available in Ireland in 2015. In November 2015, Ferrero announced that it would sell the eggs in the

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, starting in December 2015. In May 2017, it was announced that Kinder Joy would be launched in the United States in 2018, as a similar product by Kinder,

Kinder Surprise Kinder Surprise (Italian: ''Kinder Sorpresa'' or ''Ovetto Kinder''), also known as Kinder Egg or Kinder Surprise Egg, is a milk chocolate consisting of a chocolate egg surrounding a yellow plastic capsule with a small toy inside. Manufactured by t ...

, is banned in the U.S. by a federal law. Specifically, the

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bans all food products that contain non-nutritive objects embedded within them.

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* {{Ferrero Ferrero SpA brands Chocolate Candy Food and drink introduced in 2001