Whoppers

Whoppers are chocolate-coated malted milk balls produced by The Hershey Company. The candy is a small, round ball about 3/4 of an inch in diameter. They are typically sold either in a small cardboard candy box, in a larger box that resembles a cardboard milk carton, or the “Fun Size” variety which is a tube shaped plastic package sealed at the sides, containing twelve whoppers weighing 21 grams (0.75 Oz).

The product was originally made by Leaf until merging all their products to Hershey.

In 2000, The Hershey Company introduced Mini Whoppers. Traditionally chocolate in flavor, a new strawberry milkshake flavored variant became available in 2006, soon after they also released Reeses Peanut Butter Cup flavored Whoppers.

Around Easter a variant called Robin Eggs is sold. They differ from the traditional Whoppers in being egg shaped and having a speckled candy shell.

In other countries, such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Australia, Japan and Austria, a similar product, known as “Maltesers”, are manufactured by Mars, Inc. Other very similar products include the NECCO “Mighty Malts Malted Milk Balls”.

Ingredients

Listed in decreasing order by weight: sugar, fractionated and partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil, reduced protein whey (milk), corn syrup solids, whey (milk), corn syrup, malted milk, barley malt (containing wheat, milk, sodium bicarbonate, salt), cocoa, carob, sorbitan tristearate, soy lecithin, resinous glaze, natural and artificial flavors, tapioca dextrin, calcium carbonate, and salt.

Flavors

*Original (chocolate)
*Strawberry milkshake
*Reese's peanut butter

Gallery

External links

* [http://hersheys.com/products/details/whoppers.asp Official Whoppers website]