Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans

Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans
Food information
Manufacturer	Hogwarts Express Staff Mr. and Mrs. Flume
Sold	Hogwarts Express Sweets Trolley Honeydukes Sweetshop
Flavour	Various flavours; from Acid to Zucchini

"You want to be careful with those. When they say every flavour, they mean every flavour - you know you get all the ordinary ones like chocolate and peppermint and marmalade, but then you can get spinach and liver and tripe. George reckons he had a bogey-flavoured one once."

— Ronald Weasley to Harry Potter

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 you never know what you're about to get. 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 and gets an earwax flavour one.

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.

Known flavours

"Ah! Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans! I was most unfortunate in my youth to come across a vomit-flavored one. And since then, I'm afraid I've lost my liking for them. But I think I could be safe with a nice toffee... Hum! Alas! Earwax."

— Albus Dumbledore

Acid Apple Alka Root Avocado Bacon Bagel Baked Beans Baking Soda Banana Beanstalks Biscuit Blackcurrant Bogey Bread Brown Sugar Brussels Sprouts Butter Buttermilk Buttered toast Candy Floss Carrots Caterpillar Cauliflower Caviar Celery Centipede Cheese Cherry Cherry Tart Chewing Gum Chicken Chocolate Chocolate Mousse Cinnamon Coconut Cod Coffee Compost Cookie Dough

Copper Corn Cough medicine Cucumber Curry Custard Diesel Dirt Earwax Egg yolk Eucalyptus Leaves Flowers Fried Beans Frog Legs Glue Grass Ham Honey Honeydew Horseradish Hot Sauce Ice Cream Ink Iron Kidney Beans Lamb Latex Leather Lemon Lettuce Lima Beans Lime Liver Lucozade Mango Maracana Nuts Marmalade Marshmallow

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

Sand Sardines Sausage Shampoo Shrimp Soap Soda Water Sour Cream Spaghetti Spinach Squid Strawberry Jelly Strawberry Mousse Sugar Sulfur Sushi Sweetcorn Syrup Tartar Sauce Tea Thyme Toast Toe nails Toffee Tomato Ketchup Tripe Trout Turnip Vanilla Varnish Vinegar Vomit Walnuts Wild grass Wood Worcestershire Sauce Yogurt Zucchini

Video Games

In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) (PS1 version) Harry Potter trades a number of Beans by a Portrait Password with Fred and George Weasley. The only flavours in the game are:

• Blueberry (Blue Beans; Found in the Hogwarts Grounds)
• Chili (Red Beans; Found in the Higher Floors and the Forbidden Forest)
• Earwax (Yellow Beans; Found in the Entrance Hall and Lower Floors)
• Troll Bogies (Green Beans; Found in the Dungeons)

Behind the scenes

• The U.S. edition spells them as "Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans"
• In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Albus Dumbledore is heard saying that he had the misfortune of coming across a vomit-flavored 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 flavors from the series. there are currently 25 flavors available. The review website Candy Addict rated these candies as #4 of the "10 grossest candies." [1]

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)