

🍋 Dare to Pucker: The Ultimate Sour Candy Challenge You Can’t Miss!
Barnetts Mega Sour Candy Fruits are traditionally handmade British sweets featuring a powerful sour coating that lasts 20 seconds, followed by juicy fruit flavors. Crafted using classic copper pan methods, these gluten-free, soy-free, and vegetarian-friendly candies are perfect for parties, gift hampers, or anyone seeking an authentic, intense sour candy experience.










| ASIN | B00D0U646G |
| Age Range Description | 12+ |
| Allergen Information | Gluten Free, Soy Free |
| Best Sellers Rank | #42,649 in Grocery & Gourmet Food ( See Top 100 in Grocery & Gourmet Food ) #199 in Sour Flavored Candies |
| Brand | Barnetts |
| Brand Name | Barnetts |
| Candy Consistency | Hard |
| Color | Multicolor |
| Container Type | Bag |
| Cuisine | british |
| Customer Reviews | 4.0 out of 5 stars 1,010 Reviews |
| Diet Type | Gluten Free, Halal, Vegetarian |
| Flavor | Fruits |
| Item Form | Pastille |
| Item Package Quantity | 1 |
| Item Package Weight | 0.25 Kilograms |
| Item Shape | Round |
| Item Weight | 0.24 Kilograms |
| Manufacturer | Barnetts |
| Number of Items | 1 |
| Number of Pieces | 1 |
| Occasion | Birthday, Christmas, Easter, Graduation, Halloween |
| Specialty | Soy Free, Wheat Free |
| Style | Balls |
| Sugar Candy Type | Fizz Candy |
| Unit Count | 8.80 Ounce |
6**6
SOUR BATH BOMB FOR YOUR MOUTH.
UPDATE 2-13-25: these are still the best. I've yet to find a more sour candy out there. I tried the "Black Death" sourballs which are made here in the US, and they were no more sour than Barnett's. Kind of seemed less sour tbh. Also, the rest of the Black Death's brand other sour balls, which look identical to Barnett's are WILDLY overpriced. It's a betrayal on levels no one's ever seen. So I'm stickin' with Barnett's! I just wish I could reliably get an actual mix of all the mega sour fizz balls everytime - sometimes it's that way, and other times it's just the fruits which is a bummer but WHATEVER THESE ARE STILL THE BEST. ------- I LOVE SOUR CANDY. it is VERY hard to find genuinely Sour candy. i consider myself a Sour candy aficionado. some people eat orange slices, i eat lemon slices. why? because Sour. TL;DR: THIS IS THE SOUREST CANDY I HAVE EVER HAD. if you don’t like tongue-burning, eye-tearing Sour candy, don’t buy this. it is not for you. i, however, LOOOVE THEM. i don’t know how i’d never heard of or had them til now (i finally googled ’sourest candy on earth’ and this was the top result), but they have brought me severe, salivating, and acidic joy. NOTES FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY LIKE SOUR CANDY & LEFT A BAD REVIEW, OR DON’T KNOW WHAT ACTUALLY SOUR, SOUR CANDY IS: a lot of the negative reviews for this product are because those people DON’T ACTUALLY WANT SOUR candy - just something mildly tart. like those neon gummy worms (NOT SOUR). some people think they ”love” Sour candy, but really, they just like peach rings with a coat of mildly citric sugar - again, NOT SOUR. even Sweettarts, which i love, NOT SOUR. most of the supermarket run-of-the-mill candy that say SOUR on the bag? NOPE! not really or remotely Sour. and if it burned your kid's tongue maybe DON'T GIVE IT TO YOUR KID!? like handing them a knife and complaining to the company it was too sharp. c'mon now. it also seems that the same people who can’t handle Sour candy complain so much, that countless Sour candies have been discontinued or neutralized. a TRAVESTY. somewhere between 2005-2010 Sour candy started to disappear from stores. by now, all my favorites, gone or completely neutered. some examples: --Shocktarts/Shockers - discontinued. --TearJerker Gumballs - discontinued. --Warheads - neutralized, rendered ineffective, and just not good. --Toxic Waste - one step above Warheads. --Jolly Rancher Sour Surge Hard Candy (SO GOOD) - discontinued in the past year. --Warhead Sour Dippin Pucker Packs - discontinued in the past year. they ruined regular Fun Dip for me, that's how good they were. --Sour Sweettarts (the replacement for Shockers) - neutralized to obscene levels, it is just a lower quality Spree now. so please, PLEASE, don’t leave bad reviews on Sour candy simply because you cannot handle it. if it’s god awful Sour, it delivered on its claim - so give it 5 stars, say it was too sour for you, and go buy some (lowercase sour) Sour Patch Kids. STOP RUINING IT FOR THE REST OF US. for example: i have always LOOOOOVED hot sauce, but after i quit smoking, i couldn’t handle it anymore. i would DIE after round 2 on Hot Ones. i STILL love hot sauce (tapatio, frank’s buffalo, green tobasco, & sriracha) - but i’m not gonna buy a bottle of ghost pepper molten lava, and complain that it burned a hole through my tongue — that would be incredibly stupid of me. what i WOULD say is, ‘my mouth is on fire, i feel like i’m dying, and if you want the hottest hot sauce on earth, this might be for you.’ FOR THOSE WHO WANT TRULY SOUR CANDY: this is it. i’ve not had anything more Sour in… possibly ever. YES it is Expen$ive for the amount you get, but i tapped out after FIVE in 1 day, my tongue peeled (gross but not surprising, i basically got a fresh new tongue the next day), and i took a 1 day break. also, brush your teeth after (an hour after for some reason, idk, google it). and don’t plan on eating anything spicy, probably. or crunchy. or hot. you'll figure it out. SOURHACK: if the roof of your mouth tends to get more irritated and it bothers you, buy a pack of Hi-Chew, put one in your mouth, roll it out so it’s like the plastic part of a retainer on the roof of your mouth, and THEN pop in a mega sour. it does not neutralize the effect. but it does protect the roof of your mouth so you can eat food within then next 12-24 hours. otherwise, enjoy your room temperature broth. Re: MELTED BALLS i see reviews about some of them being stuck together. my pack came as if it looked like half of them melted a bit, and 5 were stuck together - but, because i am an adult who can problem solve, i took an ice pick and easily broke them apart. as for the melted ones? there was NOTHING lost. tasted exactly the same as the crystallized, unmelted ones. lastly, keep them somewhere cool, otherwise they’ll melt just from being in your house. i’m considering the refrigerator. anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
H**L
Pure Acidic Pain!
Usually when I eat a Warheads or Toxic Waste, there's a sweet, fun and flavorful aspect to the sour candy that I always associated with sour candy. This candy however is pure acidic pain, which I have never before experienced in a sour candy. If you must try this candy, consider it more of a challenge than a treat, like the sour version of a one chip challenge (though the sour pain is nothing compared to the one chip challenge unless your challenge is to eat the whole bag in one sitting). The candy is large but the perfect size and shape to fit exactly between your tongue and the roof of your mouth. After getting through the sour part, the flavor itself is okay. It's not crazy sweet and kinda tastes like bubblegum. After eating only 2 my tongue feels like it's going to start bleeding if I try a 3rd one.
C**R
Wow nasty not sour
These are maybe sour for the first 15 seconds then noting , it’s a nasty 15 second I would not even classify it as sour , more than of a Chemical taste to me , I’m see if I can return what a wasted of money . I would recommend sour jolly ranchers that last that full time you sucking on them and taste delicious . All those video reviews must be for attention .
D**B
Very sour!
My quest was to find a sour candy that was sour enough to make a friend of ours have his eyes squint from eating them. He popped one into his mouth and I watched as his eyes got smaller. One other person, who tried these, had to spit his out. He couldn't take it. I don't like super sour candy so I didn't even try it. The sourness, from what I am told, only lasts for about 30 seconds. Then you just have nice candy to suck on. What would have been better is to have a chewy candy instead of hard. Was very happy to finally get this order of candy. The first order disappeared somewhere enroute. This box did show up but it was so battered up. I'm surprised it made it. So, for the candy I rate this a 5 star. For delivery I rate it a 1 star.
T**H
Oh my
If you're looking for sour look no further. So sour that my eyes close and for a solid minute I can't talk. I'm puckering just thinking about them. I'm an all or nothing kinda person so when I popped the whole thing in my mouth and held on, I was truly holding on. It's a wild ride if you're not enough to board. On the plus side they are what they say they are and they didn't burn my mouth the way other sour candies can. They're flavorful and fun to share. The only kind of negative thing I can say about them is packaging. They come in a nondescript bag with an old style tape closure. No branding or anything but the kind of negative thing is the bag is sticky inside. I guess the only way to get around that would be individual packaging but that would raise the price so I'll take the semi sticky bag. I'm guessing they're melting a little. They're fun though and after you make it past the sour the candy isn't bad either.
S**T
Not the same candy?
I am a sour candy enthusiast and decided to go shop online for my sweet tooth. I discovered Barnett's mega sours were among the most sour candies out right now. Upon receiving these, I immediately tried one to see what the hype was all about. Upon consuming the my first candy, I was disappointing to see that it was not as sour as I hoped for. More like a Circle K shitty peach rings sour. I put the bag down and tried the same one a couple days later. Man, it was sour. The kind of sour that tears your tongue up and makes you want to spit the candy out. It was a jawbreaker sized candy with more surface area than a warheads. The fizz was longer lasting than Zotts. I was content. Although, it was odd to discover different tasting candy that came from a loosely packaged bag from another country. There were pieces that were not as sour as the other ones of the same color and assortment. It is almost like they were a dud. Has anyone else noticed this? I have tried the candy on three different occasions, it seems to not be dependent on color, almost like there are "fake" mega sours mixed throughout the candy. From my experience it would appear that some of candies in the package are not the same brand.
J**L
All that they say and more!
I’m a sour candy fanatic so when I heard about the alleged potency of these I had to order some. They came well packaged, nothing melted or broken. The experience of eating these comes in stages. The first sour twang hit me like a mouth watering, tongue puckering freight train and I loved every second of it! The intensity of that sourness can’t be overstated, other reviewers were not exaggerating. That only lasted about 30 seconds before it mellowed and I was left with a pleasant, tasty piece of hard candy. Then once cracks formed in the outer shell the fizzy inner powder began to leak out which made for a fun sensation. I was impressed by how long the candy ball took to dissolve before I was left with a few crunchable bits. I enjoyed every flavor except for the rhubarb custard—fine, but I’m okay if I don’t eat that one again. The cola flavor is my favorite. I caution against eating more than one or two a day, honestly. Even after waiting a few hours between them my mouth got a little irritated after indulging in a second. That said I’m addicted and will probably order more soon!
M**Y
Sour but strange taste
These are definitely sour!! On par with Warheads and Toxic Waste. However, the actually flavors of the candies were strange to me. Maybe it’s just different because these are from the UK and I’m used to US candies. The fizzing in the middle was a surprise as well. Overall, great to try if you are a sour fanatic like I am.
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