Jelly Belly Candy Co

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In Short – See the Jelly Belly worldwide phenomenon at its source. Free 40-minute tours leave every 15 minutes, wending their way through a working factory where the beans are created every day. Flavor potions are added to the candy's center, a gooey mix called slurry, molded and left to dry overnight. Those forms are then starched, moisturized, sugared, sanded, cured and rotated in a complicated candy dance for up to 48 hours. The coating is added over the course of a couple of hours, and then the candies are polished to perfection. It sounds simple enough, but a single Jelly Belly bean…