Despite the company name, Canada’s Kid’s Brands was attracting all sorts of adults to its booth at this year’s All Candy Expo. The source of the buzz was Kid’s Brands’ Little Sprouts Candy and Grasshead.

The unique product has a hollow, oval-shaped plastic body with quirky face and feet in a variety of colors. The body houses sour candy gummy worms, a sweet imitation of the kind that really lives below the grass in the great outdoors. On top is a self-contained rye grass seedling that—after six days of watering (a tablespoon a day will do)—sprouts grass. Eventually, the Little Sprouts Grasshead may need a trim to its bright green “hair” for more fun for the kids.

Jelly Belly is expanding into the energy snack market with its new Sports Beans. The energizing jelly beans pack carbohydrates, vitamins and electrolytes into poppable, portion-controllable bites. The beans come in orange and lemon lime natural flavors reminiscent of that other exercise refueling source—Gatorade.  Sports Beans stack up against their competition with appeal to a broad audience—from athletes, like the Jelly Belly pro-cycler, Ben Brooks, to soccer moms. Sports Beans come in 1-ounce packages that pack 120 milligrams of electrolytes, 20 percent of the daily value of Vitamins C and E and only 100 calories.

Jelly Belly ships the beans in 24-count display caddies with two in each case. Each 1-ounce package has a suggested retail price of 99 cents.

Ford Gum & Machine Company’s Pomegranate and Blueberry Flavor gum is an antioxidant gum that is also sugar-free. The gum is made with wild blueberries and natural pomegranate extract and is sweetened with Xylitol. The fruity, tangy taste of the gum also delivers antioxidants into the body at a fast rate. Suggested retail price is 99 cents; the gum comes in a 12-count display box with six boxes in a case.

Hershey’s & More Cookie Bars top a crunchy cookie with a variety of fillings—caramel, creamy fudge or marshmallow and then cover that in a smooth chocolate coating. Package sizes include a 3.52-ounce four-pack and a 44-ounce, 50-count assortment tub. Suggested retail prices are $1 for the 4-pack and $8.30 for the 50-count assortment.

Mega M&M’s are the newest addition to the classic M&M line. Available in milk chocolate and peanut varieties, the Mega brands are, on average, 55 percent bigger than regular M&M’s. The Mega candies are colored maroon, blue/grey, beige, turquoise and brown and are packaged in shiny metallic packages in king-size, 12.6-ounce and 19.6-ounce sizes. The suggested retail prices are 99 cents, $2.79 and $4.15, respectively.

The new line of Dove Cookies are dipped in Dove chocolate and marked with the Dove logo. The cookies come in two varieties, Classic Chunk and Contemporary, with multiple flavors in each variety. Classic Chunk flavors include Beyond Chocolate Chunk, Chocolate Walnut Rendezvous and Chocolate Walnut Oasis with eight cookies in a package. The Contemporary flavors are Mint Chocolate Moment, Mint Chocolate Serenade and Toffee Chocolate Tango with 15 cookies per package. Suggested retail price is $2.99.

The twisted, sour Tropikiwi Kick gum has joined the Juicy Fruit family. This tart and sweet gum is targeted to tweens and teens and comes in a crunchy-coated pellet form. A 12-piece blister pack has a suggested retail price of 89 cents.

Wrigley has expanded its Eclipse line of mints with the addition of a Cinnamon flavor and Lemon Burst, a reformulated version of the previously available Lemon Ice. The mints come in tins of 50 for a suggested retail price of $1.49.

Queen Anne recently extended its Fruit and Chocolate line to include orange and banana. They are available in 5-ounce steeple-topped packages in six-count cases.

Queen Anne also introduced its 7.5-ounce box of Fine Glacé Fruit and Chocolate. The box has a total of 15 truffle cherries, truffle blueberries and caramel cherries. Suggested retail price is $2.99 for the orange and banana and $4.99 for the Fine Glacé Fruit and Chocolate box.

Hershey has twisted its Twizzler’s Pull-N-Peel to create two new flavors. The Twizted Berry flavor mixes blue raspberry, raspberry, berry cherry and berry grape flavors. Twizted Paradise variety combines strawberry punch and orange flavors. The Pull-N-Peel Twizted will be available in 2-ounce and 11-ounce sizes. Suggested retail prices are 69 cents for the 2-ounce bag and $1.59 for the large bag.

Wolfgang’s fresh fruit confectionery line includes chocolate-coated blueberries and red raspberries. The candies are individually wrapped and sold in 5-ounce stand-up pouches or clamshell PET pint-size, hinged berry baskets and come in 12 packs or 48-pack cases. The suggested retail price is $2.99.

World’s Finest Chocolates now offers a line of premium holiday chocolates for sale at retail. The line includes the company’s most popular chocolates like Continental Almonds, Continental Pecans, Mint Meltaways and Caramel Whirls. The Continental nut offerings feature roasted nuts covered in dark or milk chocolate and are available in a 14-ounce size for almonds and 12-ounce size for pecans. Each package has a suggested retail price of from $3.49 to $7.99.

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Bubbagum’s shockingly bad gummy teeth products have expanded to include seasonal items for Halloween, Christmas and Easter. The attention-getting teeth, with the tagline, “Bad Teeth! Big Bubbles!,” can be chewed when the play is done and come in flavors like sour apple, cool grape, cherry and watermelon.

For Halloween, these teeth are the perfect hand-out or may be used to complete a costume since they are available in monster, witch, vampire and zombie varieties. The Easter line includes bunny rabbit, baby, chick and egghead misshapen teeth. The suggested retail price is $1.99.

The classic P-Nuttles Butter Toffee peanuts and sunflower kernels have been re-packaged for on-the-go consumption in a tube-shaped package. The peanuts come in a 1.6-ounce tube and the sunflower kernels in a 1.5-ounce package.

Signature Snacks Co. and TCBY Systems have partnered for a new line of yogurt-covered FLIPZ pretzels. They come in TCBY’s most popular yogurt flavors, chocolate swirl and strawberry swirl. The new FLIPZ come in 5-ounce, 7.5-ounce and 8-ounce bags, as well as 10-ounce and 22-ounce canisters. Suggested retail price ranges from $1.99 to $5.99.

ElimiTaste Smoke Screen gum is a Xylitol-based gum that is specially formulated to combat smoker’s breath. The gum comes in Insane Maxx Mint variety and comes in a 12-pellet foil pack with 12 packs in a case. Suggested retail price is 99 cents to $1.49 per pack.

CandyRific’s new product was designed with summer in mind. The soccer- or baseball-themed, child-safe fans are combined with a great-tasting candy sucker in the handle. Suggested retail price is $1.99; the fans come in display packages of 12 with six displays to a case.