Pear drop

Apear dropis a Britishboiled sweetmade fromsugarandflavourings."Old-fashioned" pear drops are a combination of half pink and half yellow in apear-shapeddropabout the size of a thumbnail, although they are more commonly found in packets containing separate yellow drops and pink drops in roughly equal proportions ( "original" ). The artificial flavoursisoamyl acetateandethyl acetateare responsible for the characteristic flavour of pear drops: the former confers a banana flavour, the latter a pear flavour. Bothestersare used in many pear- andbanana-flavoured sweets. However, a natural pear-derived product from pear juice concentrate is sometimes used.

Pear drops

The largest pear drop in the world is housed atStockley's Sweetsin Oswaldtwistle Mills inOswaldtwistle,Lancashire,England.In 2009 a survey of 4,000 adults found that pear drops were the fourteenth most popular sweet in the United Kingdom.