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Black Jack
Product type Confectionery
Owner Barratt ( Valeo)
Introduced1920; 104 years ago (1920)
Related brands Fruit SaladWham BarFlumps
MarketsEurope
Previous owners Trebor • Monkhill Confectionary ( Cadbury Schweppes) • Tangerine Confectionary
Website valeoconfectionery.com/barratt
Nutritional value per
Energy327 kcal (1,370 kJ)
74.2g
Sugars41.0g
Dietary fiber0.0g
3.2g
Saturated1.6g
0.4g
MineralsQuantity
%DV
Sodium
0%
0.79 mg

Black Jack is a type of " aniseed flavour chew" according to its packaging. It is a chewy confectionery manufactured under Valeo Confectionery's Barratt brand in UK and Spain. Introduced in the 1920s by Trebor, the wrapper originally showed gollywogs on it. [1]

Ingredients

The recipe has varied over the years. In 2021 the ingredients were: glucose syrup, sugar, palm oil, colour (vegetable carbon), hydrolysed pea protein, citric acid, aniseed oil, acidity regulator ( trisodium citrate). [2]

Each 250 g pack contains 46 chews.

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Wrapper Gallery (1970s)". Retrieved 5 October 2023.
  2. ^ "Black Jack Chews". Retrieved 17 December 2021.