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The sweet taste of success

SOOTHING, nausea-quelling travel sweets. The perfect companions on short hops, protracted traffic jam-filled trips and adventure odysseys. In fact, why leave home without the mini drops that pack a flavourful, often fruity punch the moment they touch the tongue? Some even come with provenance and pedigree.

A. L. Simpkin & Co began making glucose-filled confections exactly a century ago and its products have since been taken on record-breaking and history-making journeys around the globe—as well as more mundane sorties, of course. The company supplied RAF personnel throughout the Second World War with its Vita-Glucose tablets (the precursor to today’s vast range

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