Juice cleanses are so last year 2014 is all about the Sugarless Haribo Gummy Bear Cleanse. look no further than a bag of sugar free gummy bears - Amanda Blankenship January 21, 2014 The known side effects of the excessive consumption of lycasin are bloating, flatulence, loose stools, and borborygmi, the scientific term for tummy-rumbling," jacbruce wrote.įor the record, Haribo recommends eating no more than 15 sugarless gummy bears in a sitting.Īmazon seems to be developing a reputation as a place for funny reviews - as the tongue-in-cheek reviews of Cory Bernardi's book The Conservative Revolution showed - but the remarks about the sugarless gummy bears have also been picked up on social media. "Maltitol is great because it doesn't cause cavities, but not so great because our bodies can't fully digest it, so it can ferment in the gut. Other reviewers go on to describe the after-effects of eating the sweets as "lava from Satan", and similar.įellow reviewer jacbruce stated that the "offending" ingredient in the sugarless gummy bears is lycasin, a hydrogenated syrup consisting mainly of another substance called malitol. She goes on to describe her flatulence as akin to the sound of "trumpets calling the demons back to Hell" with a stench "like 1,000 rotten corpses vomited". "I've had food poisoning from some bad shellfish and that was almost like a skip in the park compared to what was going on inside me," she stated. "What came out of me felt like someone tried to funnel Niagara Falls through a coffee straw," she wrote. Torok rated the initial taste of the bears as a five, but went on to describe "a gastrointestinal experience like nothing I've ever imagined".
Consumers of Haribo's new range of sugarless Gummy Bears have posted hilariously graphic reviews of the new sweets on Amazon, detailing the confectionery's laxative properties.Īlthough the product packaging advisers consumers not to eat too many bears in one sitting, some sweet-tooths have either ignored the warning or munched on regardless - with unfortunate consequences.Ĭhristine E Torok from Pennsylvania has led the reviews on the Amazon product review page - with 750 other users commenting on her review and nearly 30,000 others finding it useful. IT'S every product manager's worst nightmare.
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