A pear drop is a British boiled sweet made from sugar and flavourings. The classic pear drop is a combination of half pink and half yellow in a pear-shaped drop about the size of a thumbnail, although they are more commonly found in packets containing separate yellow drops and pink drops in roughly equal proportions. The artificial flavour isoamyl acetate is responsible for the characteristic flavour of pear drops, and is used in many pear- and banana-flavoured sweets. Sometimes, however, they use a natural pear-derived product from pear juice concentrate.
The largest pear drop in the world is housed at Stockleys Sweets in Oswaldtwistle Mills in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, England.[1][2] In 2009 a survey of 4,000 adults found that pear drops were the fourteenth most popular sweet in the United Kingdom.[3]
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