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Cadbury Mini Eggs are a milk chocolate product created and produced by
Over the years, Cadbury has introduced a number of variations related to the original Mini Eggs, including:
* Shimmering Eggs (metallic colored shells)
*
Cadbury
Cadbury, formerly Cadbury's and Cadbury Schweppes, is a British multinational confectionery company fully owned by Mondelez International (originally Kraft Foods) since 2010. It is the second largest confectionery brand in the world after Mar ...
. Introduced in 1967, the egg is solid milk chocolate
Milk chocolate is a solid chocolate confectionery containing cocoa, sugar and milk. Chocolate was originally sold and consumed as a beverage in pre-Columbian times, and upon its introduction to Western Europe. Major milk chocolate producers incl ...
encased in a thin coating of hard candy "shell", molded to resemble a miniature egg.
Mini Eggs were previously produced in the Keynsham
Keynsham ( ) is a town and civil parish located between Bristol and Bath in Somerset, England. It has a population of 16,000.
It was listed in the Domesday Book as ''Cainesham'' (as it is pronounced), which is believed to mean the home of Sai ...
plant in Somerset, U.K.; however, as of February 2010, production has moved to Cadbury's new plant in (Bielany Wrocławskie) Poland.
Product specification
Over the years, Cadbury has introduced a number of variations related to the original Mini Eggs, including:
* Shimmering Eggs (metallic colored shells)
* Dark
Darkness, the direct opposite of lightness, is defined as a lack of illumination, an absence of visible light, or a surface that absorbs light, such as black or brown.
Human vision is unable to distinguish colors in conditions of very low lum ...
Mini Eggs (dark chocolate)
* Popping Mini Eggs ("pops" when melted in mouth)
* Micro Mini Eggs (even smaller variation of Mini Eggs) (introduced in 2007)
* White Mini Eggs (white Mini Eggs with white chocolate inside) (introduced as a Target exclusive in 2014)
Cadbury Mini Eggs are made into four colours of shell.
The original colours were white, yellow, pink, and light blue.
In Canada in 2010, the colours were switched to yellow, pink, green, and turquoise.
In the U.K. they are now white, yellow, pink and purple with speckles.
The version available in 2014 as seen on the box of 45g mini eggs paper carton:
(bar code 5034660522515, manufactured by Mondelez Polska Production Sp. in Poland)
* Cocoa solids 25% minimum.
* Colouring used are: anthocyanlins, beetroot red, paprika extract, carotenes.
* The vegetable fats used are palm oil and shea butter.
* The eggs also contain modified maize and tapioca starches.
Nutrition:
* Energy: 220 kcal. 925kJ (equiv. per 100g 490kcal/2055kJ).
* Carbohydrate 69.5g per 100 g. of which sugar 69g.
* Salt 0.2g per 100g, Sodium 80 mg per 100g.
* Saturated fat 13g per 100g.
* Protein 4.7g per 100g.
* Fibre 1.5g per 100g.
See also
*List of Cadbury products
Cadbury Limited is the second largest confectionery company globally after Mars, Incorporated and is a current subsidiary of American company Mondelēz International. Cadbury products are widely distributed and are sold in many countries, the m ...
*Cadbury Creme Egg
A Cadbury Creme Egg is a chocolate confection produced in the shape of an egg (food), egg, originating from the British chocolatier J. S. Fry & Sons, Fry's in 1963 before being renamed by Cadbury in 1971. The product consists of a thick chocola ...
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* {{Hershey, state=autocollapse British confectionery Brand name chocolate Products introduced in 1967 Cadbury brands Mondelez International brands