What is Cherry Blossom (candy)?
{{About|the candy|the cherry tree and their blossoms|Cherry blossom}} [[File:Cherryblossom candy logo.png|right|230px]] '''Cherry Blossom''' is a type of [[chocolate]]<ref>{{cite book | last=Broekel | first=R. | title=The Chocolate Chronicles | publisher=Wallace-Homestead Book Co. | year=1985 | isbn=978-0-87069-431-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B4vxAAAAMAAJ | access-date=August 25, 2018 | page=42}}</ref> sold in Canada and made by [[The Hershey Company|Hershey Canada Inc.]] Hershey used to make it at its Canadian manufacturing facility in [[Smiths Falls, Ontario]]. The candy was made from the 1890s by the [[Walter M. Lowney Company]] of Canada until Hershey took it over as a [[subsidiary]] brand.<ref name=Carr>{{cite book|last1=Carr|first1=David|title=Candymaking in Canada|url=https://archive.org/details/candymakingincan0000carr|publisher=Dundum|date=2003|page=[https://archive.org/details/candymakingincan0000carr/page/107 107]}}</ref> The factory in Smiths Falls, which is north-east of [[Kingston, Ontario]], is now closed. The candy consists of a [[maraschino cherry]] and cherry [[syrup]] surrounded by a mixture of [[chocolate]], shredded coconut and roasted [[peanut]] pieces. The candy is sold in a wrapped 45-gram portion, packaged in a close-fitting cardboard box. Despite common belief, filling is not injected inside the chocolate. The cherry candy is covered with an [[enzyme]], [[invertase]], that breaks down the solid into a [[liquid]] over the next 1 to 2 weeks.<ref>LaBau, Elizabeth. [http://candy.about.com/od/candyglossary/g/What-Is-Invertase.htm What is Invertase?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150406171447/http://candy.about.com/od/candyglossary/g/What-Is-Invertase.htm |date=2015-04-06 }} About.com. Retrieved April 11, 2015.</ref> The candy contains 210 [[calories]] of food energy, 10g fat (15% daily intake), 29g [[carbohydrate]] (10% daily intake), 1g [[fibre]] (4% daily intake), 27g sugars and 2g of [[protein]]. [[Barcode|UPC number]]: 0 68000 70227 0 ==Related pages=