LifeSavers Five-Flavor Roll

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LifeSavers were first created in 1912 by Clarence Crane, a Cleveland chocolatier. Crane was looking for a new 'summer candy' to supplement his chocolate business that slumped in hot weather. He developed a line of hard mints but didn't have the space or machinery to make them. Therefore, Crane contracted with a pill manufacturer to press the mints into shape. 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Nickname: The Forest City Motto: Progress and Prosperity Official website: www. ... This page is a candidate to be copied to Wiktionary. ...

The pill manufacturer, whose machinery was malfunctioning, found that the pressing process worked much better when the mints were stamped with a hole in the middle. Crane called the new candy "Crane's Peppermint Life Savers" because they looked like miniature life preservers.

In 1913, Crane sold the formula for his Life Savers candy to Edward Noble for only $2,900. Edward John Noble (1882 – 1958) was a U.S. broadcasting and candy industrialist. ...

Noble started his own candy company and began producing and selling the mints known as Pep-O-Mint Life Savers. He also began to package the mints into rolls wrapped in tin foil to prevent them from going stale. This process was done by hand until 1919 when machinery was developed. In 1925, tin foil was changed to aluminum foil.

Noble promoted the candy at the cash registers of saloons, cigar stores, drug stores, barber shops, and restaurants. He had the candy placed, with a five-cents price, near the cash register.

Noble also began to create and sell many other flavors.

It has been claimed that if you were to choke on this candy, the hole in the middle would allow air to pass through, thereby essentially saving the choker's life, though this probably would not actually make a difference, if only because pressure would turn the candy sideways.

In recent years, the brand has expanded to include Gummi Savers, LifeSaver Minis, LifeSaver Fusions, and Creme Savers. A few discontinued brands include Fruit Juicers and LifeSaver Lollipops. A lollipop still in the package Lollipop (Candyman) is the title of a 1997 song by the pop-dance group Aqua, from the album Aquarium. ...

Wint-O-green LifeSavers are known for their ability to spark when bitten in a dark room, due to triboluminescence produced by an electrical charge produced by grinding wintergreen and sugar together. Triboluminescence is an optical phenomenon in which light is generated via the breaking of asymmetrical bonds in a crystal when that material is scratched, crushed, or rubbed. ... Wintergreen was originally a term referring to a plant that continues photosynthesis (i. ...

Lifesavers production for North America was in Holland, Michigan until 2004 when production was moved to Canada. Holland is a city in the western region of the U.S. state of Michigan. ...

Timeline

• 1912 - Crane's Peppermint LifeSavers created by Clarence Crane in Cleveland, Ohio.
• 1913 - Edward Noble bought the LifeSaver formula, renamed Pep-O-Mint LifeSavers, and started Mint Products Company in NYC.
• 1924 - The first fruit flavors were produced as solid candies.
• 1929 - Technology improved to allow a hole in the center of the fruit candies.
• 1931 - LifeSavers Limited acquired Beech-Nut and the two merged companies became Squibb Beech-Nut Inc.
• 1935 - The Original Five-Flavor roll of LifeSavers debuted.
• 1981 - Nabisco Brands Inc. acquired LifeSavers from E.R Squibb Corporation.
• 1987 - Acquired by Hershey Canada.
• 1996 - Acquired by Beta Brands Limited.
• 2004 - Acquired By Wrigley's.

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Flavours

There have been over 50 flavors of LifeSavers to date. The different flavors of LifeSavers have included:

• Pep-O-Mint (Packaged separately) (Introduced 1912)

Original Five-Flavor roll 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

• Lemon (Introduced 1935; packaged in the Original 5-flavor roll)
• Lime (Introduced 1935; packaged in the Original 5-flavor roll)
• Orange (Introduced 1935; packaged in the Original 5-flavor roll)
• Cherry (Introduced 1935; packaged in the Original 5-flavor roll)
• Pineapple (Introduced 1935; packaged in the Original 5-flavor roll)

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• Butter Rum (Packaged separately)
• Wint-O-Green (Packaged separately)
• Spear-O-Mint (Packaged separately)
• Musk (Packaged separately; sold chiefly in Australia)
• Wild Cherry
• Hot Cin-O-Mon
• Cryst-O-Mint

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• Tropical Fruits 5-flavor roll (Fruit Punch, Pina Colada, Mango leon, Tangerine, Banana)
• Tangy Fruits 5-flavor roll (Watermelon, Green Apple, Strawberry, Tangy Tangerine, Banana)
• Wild Berries 5-flavor roll (Strawberry, Red Raspberry, Black Raspberry, Blackberry, Cherry)
• Chill-O-Mints 5-flavor roll (Wintergreen, Spearmint, Vanilla Mint, Peppermint)

CremeSavers flavors

• Caramel & Chocolate
• Strawberry
• Raspberry
• Orange & Creme
• Banana & Creme (Limited Edition Tropicals Pack)
• Piña Colada (Limited Edition Tropicals Pack)
• Mango & Creme (Limited Edition Tropicals Pack)

In 2003/5, LifeSavers announced major changes to its Original 5 fruit flavor roll.

New Five-flavor roll

• Cherry
• Pineapple
• Raspberry
• Watermelon
• Blackberry

There is some debate as to whether one can actually identify the new flavors. For example, in informal tests, subjects (told only that the LifeSaver was purple) assumed it was grape and when informed otherwise, were unable to discern the flavor.

Links

• History of LifeSavers
• Why do Wint-O-Green LifeSavers spark in the dark?
• History of the Life Savers company
• USAToday article on changing 5 flavors
• Article on move from Michigan to Canada