Runts
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Runts (also known as Fruit Runts) are candies sold by Nestlé under their Willy Wonka Candy Company brand. First seen on the market in 1982, they are fruit flavoured and shaped candies and are very much like large Nerds. Original Runts have a hard candy shell with a somewhat powdery center. There is also a newer soft and chewy version known as Chewy Runts. The candies are in the shape of the fruit flavor they represent. Each box contains banana, orange, cherry, strawberry, blue raspberry, and watermelon. The watermelon flavor recently replaced the long standing lime flavor, and blue raspberry was added at the same time.
In the 1990s there was a variation known as "Tropical Runts" available. The blue raspberry and watermelon Runts originated in this candy. A similar variant which may have only been offered in Canada, "Rock'n Runts", contained watermelon, pineapple, lemon, raspberry, and grape flavors.
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