10 Fun Facts

 

 

1. Around 570,000 tubes of Smarties are made at Nestle Rowntree in York every day with 420 tubes filled every minute.

 

2. Each tube contains around 35 Smarties.

 

3. The UK is the only country to have an orange-flavoured Smartie and there is a special tank in the factory where the orange one is created.

 

4. The original colours were dark brown, green, light brown, orange, pink, violet and yellow.

 

5. Last year over 50 million tubes of Smarties were sold, meaning over 2.3billion were enjoyed across the nation.

 

6. It takes eight hours to make a tube of Smarties from start to finish.

 

7. In the Second World War, the sweets were made with plain chocolate because of a milk shortage.

 

8. If the Smarties eaten in one year were laid end to end it would equal almost 63,380 miles - more than two-and-a-half times around the Earth’s equator.

 

9. Natural flavours come from fruit and veg including lemon, radish, red cabbage, orange oil, Hibiscus and Spirulina.

 

10. There’s 178 calories in a tube of Smarties - around five calories per sweet.