Fruit Gems Fruit Gems Sunkist Fruit Gems are Half Dollar sized pectin candies. They are a soft round candy made from powdered sugar with fruit flavors. Fruit Gems are made by Jelly Belly, which purchased prior manufacturer, The Ben Myerson Candy Company, under license for Sunkist. They contain real fruit pectin, natural flavors and are fatless. Prior to 2012, Fruit Gems came in a mix of lemon, orange, grapefruit, lime and raspberry flavors. In 2012 the flavor lineup was changed to lemon, orange, grapefruit, raspberry and blueberry. A Christmas seasonal mix, with green lime and red raspberry fruit gems, has also been
Follicle (fruit) Follicle (fruit) In botany, a follicle is a dry unilocular fruit formed from one carpel, containing two or more seeds. It is usually defined as dehiscing by a suture in order to release seeds, for example in "Consolida" (some of the larkspurs), peony and milkweed ("Asclepias"). Some difficult cases exist however, so that the term indehiscent follicle is sometimes used, for example with the genus "Filipendula", which has indehiscent fruits that could be considered intermediate between a (dehiscent) follicle and an (indehiscent) achene. An aggregate fruit that consists of follicles may be called a follicetum. Examples include hellebore, aconite, "Delphinium",