Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans

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Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans
Object information
Sold	Hogwarts Express Sweets Trolley Honeydukes Sweetshop
Flavour(s)	Various flavours; from Acid to Zucchini
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans are the most popular wizarding treat in the world. They are the same as Muggle jelly beans, except they have every flavour, and there's no way of telling if a certain bean is a certain flavour.. You can guess from the colour of the bean. The inventor of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans was Bertie Bott, who created them on mid-twentieth century by mistake. He was planning on making tasty sweets from food, but accidentally made one taste like a dirty sock. He recognized the sales potential of a "risk with every mouthful!"

There are ordinary flavours like chocolate, peppermint, and marmalade, but also less fanciable ones like spinach, liver, and tripe.

In 1992, while Harry is in the hospital wing, Albus Dumbledore tells him that he was unfortunate enough to come across a vomit flavour one. Since then he has not liked them. He tries again and eats an earwax flavoured bean.

It is a popular treat at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and can be bought off the lunch trolley on the Hogwarts Express, and is usually sent as a gift to someone ill in the Hospital wing. They come in bags or small, striped boxes. A total of 149 flavours are known.

Contents 1 Known flavours 2 Behind the scenes 3 Appearances 4 Notes and references

[edit] Known flavours

Acid Apple Alka Root Avocado Bacon Bagel Baked Bean [1] Baking Soda Banana Beanstalks Biscuit Blackcurrant Black Pepper [2] Blueberry [3] Bogey [4][5][2] Bread Brown Sugar Brussels Sprouts Butter Buttermilk Buttered toast Candy Floss Carrots Caterpillar Cauliflower Caviar Celery Centipede Cheese Cherry Cherry Tart Chewing Gum Chicken Chili [3] Chocolate [1][2] Chocolate Mousse Cinnamon Coconut [1] Cod Coffee [1] Compost Cookie Dough

Copper Corn Cough medicine Cucumber Curry [1][6] Custard Diesel Dirt [5][2] Dirty Sock [7] Earthworm [5] Earwax [8][5][3][2] Egg yolk Eucalyptus Leaves Flowers Fried Beans Frog Legs Glue Grass [1][5] Ham Honey Honeydew Horseradish [5] Hot Sauce Ice Cream Ink Iron Kidney Beans Lamb Latex Leather Lemon [2] Lettuce Lima Beans Lime Liver [1] Lucozade Mango Maracana Nuts Marmalade [1] Marshmallow

Marzipan Mayonnaise Meatballs Menthol Milk Mince Mucous Mud Mustard [6] Noodles Onion Orange Paint Paper Paprika Parsley Parsnips Pasta Peanuts Pear Pepper [1][5] Peppermint [1][2] Pepperoni Perogies Petrol Pickle Piña Colada Pizza Plaice Potato Prawns Prune Raisin Raspberry Roast beef [6] Rotten Egg Rubber Rum Salad Dressing Salmon Salt

Sand Sardine [1][5][2] Sausage Shampoo Shrimp Soap [5] Soda Water Sour Cream Spaghetti [5] Spinach [1][5] Sprouts [1] Squid Strawberry [1] Strawberry Jelly Strawberry Mousse Sugar Sulfur Sushi Sweetcorn Syrup Tartar Sauce Tea Thyme Toast [1] Toe nails Toffee [8][9] Tomato [10] Tomato Ketchup Tripe [1] Bogies [3] Trout Turnip Vanilla Varnish Vinegar Vomit [8][5][2] Walnuts Wild grass Wood Worcestershire Sauce Yogurt Zucchini

[edit] Behind the scenes

• In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Albus Dumbledore is heard saying that he had the misfortune of coming across a vomit-flavoured bean in his youth. As he was at least 44 years old when the inventor was born, this seems unlikely. However given his old age it is possible Dumbledore perceived himself as still being in his youth at that stage of his life.
• In the real world, Jelly Belly released jelly beans with selected flavours from the series. there are currently 25 flavours available. The review website Candy Addict rated these candies as #4 of the "10 grossest candies." [1] The Bertie Bott's candies may have been inspired by Jelly Belly, which produces jellybeans in unexpected flavors like jalapeno and encourages consumers to eat different-flavoured jellybeans in combination to create different flavours.
• Advertisement at the Quidditch World Cup: "Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans-A Risk with Every Mouthful!"

[edit] Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)

[edit] Notes and references