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Apear drop is a Britishboiled sweet made fromsugar andflavourings. "Old-fashioned" pear drops are a combination of half pink and half yellow in apear-shapeddrop 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 ("original"). The artificial flavoursisoamyl acetate andethyl acetate are responsible for the characteristic flavour of pear drops: the former confers a banana flavour, the latter a pear flavour. Bothesters are used in many pear- andbanana-flavoured sweets. However, a natural pear-derived product from pear juice concentrate is sometimes used.
The largest pear drop in the world is housed atStockley's Sweets in Oswaldtwistle Mills inOswaldtwistle,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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