Customer Reviews

YummyEarth Organic Lollipops, Assorted Flavors, 30-Ounce Container

5 star:		(174)
4 star:		(34)
3 star:		(20)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

UPDATED 09-02-10 - We hear you loud and clear, amazon lolly lovers!!! We have changed to an almost even assortment of flavors per 5lb bulk bag and Counter Bin EXCLUSIVELY FOR AMAZON so make sure you are buying from Amazon directly (it will say "Ships from and sold by Amazon" under IN STOCK). Sorry, the assortment is still random when buying this item via a 3rd party, such as DAB Nutrition "fulfilled by Amazon". Please note that the assortment is ALMOST even as compared to a completely random flavor assortment. Your feedback drives this company from ingredient requests and allergy needs to flavor requests to flavor ratios. We appreciate your feedback and hope that you know that we are listening. I am truly sorry for posting this note here with a 5 star review since I do not want anyone to think that we are trying to mislead anyone with a "fake" product review, but I could not really figure out any other way to communicate this to our Amazon friends. Thank you again for your wonderful reviews!

These have become my absolute favorite candy, second only to chocolate! I took a few handfuls to share at work today and all of my coworkers loved them too.

The first positive thing I noticed about these after they arrived is that the serving size is * 3 * lollies, not just * 1 * -- not that I'm advocating overconsumption of candy, but if you have kids it's good to know that they can eat 3 of these without even getting close to a hundred calories!

The Pomegranate and Berry flavors are traditional "red" flavor, only without the disgusting quality that most regular "red" lollies have of being made out of sugar and synthetic dyes. Mouth-watering!

The Lemon flavor is VERY lemony -- so much so that it tastes like you're chewing and sucking on a real lemon, lemon peel included. At times it can be a little overpowering, but if you love real lemon flavor you'll love this.

The Orange flavor is a typical orange flavor but pleasantly so.

The Watermelon is very similar to the Jolly Rancher ( Jolly Rancher Hard Candies, Assorted Flavors, 7-Ounce Bags (Pack of 12) ) sort of Watermelon, but much, much tastier, with a very clean finish. It is very much like licking a real slice of watermelon.

The package I received also included a mango flavor, much to my surprise! This, also, is fantastic.

Overall I HIGHLY recommend these. They are well worth the price, the package is HUGE, the quality is excellent, and they're natural and organic to boot!

Just so you know...there was only one blueberry flavored lollipop in the entire container...only 3 mango flavored lollipop and just a few of the other flavors... most of the flavors that were plentiful in the container were razzaberry, and strawberry. I would prefer equal amounts of each flavor.

If you have kids sensitive to food colorings or are just trying to avoid artificial ingredients, these are great treats to have. My children have only recently made the adjustment from commercial, artificially flavored and colored candies. So, they are picky about organic treats. These lollipops have passed the test with my eight children. Their quality control seems to be pretty good (something I don't always see with organic foods), and the flavors and colors are really nice (not boring or tasteless). I keep these on hand to trade for candies others give them that they are not able to eat (due to sensitivities with food coloring).

These lollipops are good and very flavorful. Unfortunately I like mine a little sweeter. If that's not a problem for you then I highly recommend them. I took mine to work and poeple love them. Good product.

I bought these lollipops earlier in the year for my very picky kids, and was really pleased with them. My older son especially liked the cherry flavor. Recently, they went on sale and I purchased them once again. My kids were so excited to get their favorite suckers in the mail!

My son wanted me to separate out the cherry lollipops for him, so I started to sort the candy by flavor. To my dismay, only a few were cherry (10/157 in canister #1, 6/155 in canister #2). The majority of the lollipops were watermelon (61/157 in canister #1 and 47/155 in canister #2). Unfortunately, this is the one flavor that nobody in my family likes.

By my calculations, with 8 flavors in a 150 item canister, there should be approximately 19 (about 12%) of each flavor. I understand that these candies are probably packed mechanically, so the numbers will not be exact. However, one of the canisters was 39% watermelon flavor, which to me is not acceptable.

The three star rating is for the uneven flavor assortment. The flavor I give five stars.

So I noticed the gripes in others' reviews about there not being enough of certain flavors, and the response from the company about working on a fix, so I thought I'd go through and count the tub I received today to see how they were coming along.

Before I get to that, though, I should note that the tub was significantly cracked when I received it today, and there were a few loose and smashed suckers inside - but not a ton, and no more than can be expected of this sort of thing. Also, by the time I was done with the tally below, any irritation I might have felt was completely gone because there were extra suckers anyway, and more than enough to make up for the ones that were in pieces and loose.

Of the six flavors, here's how many I had of each:

WET-FACE WATERMELON = 18
TOOBERRY BLUEBERRY = 17
SOUR APPLE TART = 22
POMEGRANATE PUCKER = 16
MANGO TANGO = 25
STRAWBERRY SMASH = 16
VERY VERY CHERRY = 20
GOOGLY GRAPE = 21

As you can see, they're pretty even, or about the same distribution you'd expect in a bag of Skittles or M&Ms. Certainly, plenty of each! I haven't tasted them all (it's late and I have to go to bed), but I did eat all of the little pieces at the bottom, because I'm greedy like that, and they were all very good! :)

I should also mention that I sent these several months ago to a sick friend in another state without having had them myself, first, but she absolutely loved them and gives them to her students in class when they're especially good (which is rare, because they're in college).

Hope this review helped!

I bought these for my niece who is autistic and she is on a strict gluten free, dairy free, dye free diet. She loves these! and so do the other kids who are not on this strict diet.

Was very disappointed, package listed Apple Tart, Pomegranate Pucker, and watermelon. There were none of these flavors in the 300 lollipops I purchased.

I ordered two of these containers. One for the office and one for home. Everyone raves about the flavors. Needless to say two wasn't enough. I'm in the process of ordering the bags now. These lollipops are simply the best!!!! Yummy Earth rocks!!!