Swizzels Matlow Love Hearts Dip > Reviews (1)

When happening across the product I will now review I was taken on a trip down memory lane, though this product does now have a bit of a modern twist.

The product I will now review is - “Lovehearts dip with candyfloss stick”

For anyone that doesn’t remember these, these were readily available when I was a child, though they were called swizzlers then.
The basic idea is a paper pouch sealed into four sections. Three sections contain around a teaspoon full of flavoured sherbet, these have changed since my youth, but more of that later!
Finally in the fourth pouch, located centrally on the packet, is the swizzle stick, now a different flavour. The difference between this and some of the other sherbets around is the fact the entire stick is edible, this being a long solid what I can only describe as a refresher sweet.

The difference between then and now, which would be the modern twist I mentioned earlier are the flavours of the contents.

In the pack is “orange sparkle”, “tangy raspberry” and “zingy lemon”, the stick, which is used to scoop the afore mentioned sherbets from the pack with, you now the routine, lick and dip, is candyfloss flavoured.
There is also a culmination of brands with the stick supposedly being part of the “love hearts” range, with the stick even having little phrases running down one side of it!

To eat you simply tear the top of the packet off. To save my poor floor I tend to concertina the pack onto itself, then when the top is removed I pour all the different colours and flavours of sherbet into a bowl, the lick and dip method is much easier from a bowl rather than an ever increasingly soggy paper bag!

The sherbet itself is quite grainy in texture, very similar to granulated sugar , this is of course very sweet and very fizzy in taste.
You are supposed to take the love hearts stick, lick and dip into the sherbet, this is the supposed method of eating. The stick however is quite chalky and crumbly in texture, so if you are anything like me or my kids it is a real strain not to chew the stick after the first dip, I do think there should be a harder lolly in the pack, like a dib dab.
This brand really appeals to my kids though due to the simple fact that the stick is advertised as candyfloss flavoured, which in fact just tastes like a sugar stick.

There is no nutritional information on this fact to relay to your goodselves, needless to say it is made entirely of sugar, so this is not going to be a healthy treat!

Price wise and availability wise these are available for around the 20 -30p mark and available, surprisingly from a far few places, Asda or Tesco being the two main places I would get these from.

For more information visit - www.asda.co.uk or www.swizzels-matlow.com

Thanks for reading x