Smarties are a colour-varied sugar -coated chocolate confectionery. They have been manufactured since 1937, originally by H.I. Rowntree & Company in the UK, and are currently produced by Nestlé.
Smarties are oblate spheroids with a minor axis of about 5 mm (0.2 in) and a major axis of about 12 mm (0.5 in). They come in eight colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, mauve, pink and brown, although the blue variety was temporarily replaced by a white variety in some countries, while an alternative natural colouring dye of the blue colour was being researched.
Smarties are not distributed (except via import) in the United States, where the rights to the name belong to the Smarties CandyCompany, which manufactures its own hard tablet sweet under the registered trademark name Smarties.
A similar product have been produced by Kneisl company in Holešov, Moravia, since 1907. Several years later, the name Lentilky was used and registered by Philipp Kneisl, founder of the Holešov factory, later renamed to Sfinx. Subsequently, it was produced prevalently in Holešov as well within Czechoslovakia, and afterwards also in separated Czechia (and it is distributed also in Slovakia, Hungary, Germany, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands ), as Lentilky under the Sfinx or Orion brand, which fall under Nestlé since 1992. This name is also used in some Latin American countries (e.g., Lentejas in Peru ).
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