This History of Sweets

Everyone has been fond of sweet food. The earliest sweet food was honey which is also a natural antibacterial property. In the middle ages rich people ate desserts like preserved fruits, jelly and dried fruit and wafers which were made from batter, nowadays wafers are mainly used to form ice cream cones.

In the Tudor times, sweets were also popular however they were called sweetmeats. The rich, who were the only people who could afford them as they were very valuable, ate preserved fruit, gingerbread, sugared almonds and jelly. In the late middle ages, marzipan was then introduced, it was a paste made of almonds and jelly. Marzipan was also used by the Tudors to create edible sculptures of animals, castle, trees and people called subtleties. Furthermore, since the 17th century people were fond of barley sugar.

Sweets and confectioneries only became known during the 17th and 18th century this was mainly due to the industrial revolution. The productions of sweets were so big that the inflation of those goods was reduced. Since the high prices of sweets were reduced it meant that the expensive goods that were once considered only available to the upper class could be made available to the middle and lower classes. As the demand for sweets were so high more and more sweets were invented and as farmers had to grow more sugar cane to keep up with the high demands it meant that the global cost of sugar went down.

It was because of those times that we have the amount of sweets we do today. Haribo, Rowntrees and Maynard’s have become the most popular sweets with them each producing a variety of different sweets. Haribo has established itself on the markets beyond national borders and is now the world leader in the fruit gum and liquorice sector. Many online sweet shops include Haribo sweets within their produce because it is such a popular brand amongst the public. Haribo has built up national and international relations and including the consistent expansion of the product range by the purchasing of appropriate quality brands both at home and abroad has also contributed towards the leading marketing position.

Last but not least due to the amount of different flavours sweet company incorporate in their sweets means that there will not be a sweet a person doesn’t like. Sweet flavours may range from aniseed, apple, banana, bubblegum, cherry, chocolate, coconut, cola, cream, custard, fruit, hot, lemon, liquorice, mint, raspberry, rhubarb, sour, strawberry, toffee and many, many more. Along with all the different textured sweets.

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