Are there any sweets like effervescent vitamin tablets?

Posted by moremattymattmatt@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 26 comments

I’ve acquired a taste for sucking and nibbling on my daily effervescent vitamin tablet (don’t judge me), but I can only have one a day. Are there any similar sweets that give the same fizz? All the ”fizzy” sweets I’ve tried have just been very acidic.

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Puzzleheaded_Drink76@reddit

You want the sherbet fruits that M&S discontinued in about 2000. Solid lump of sherbet in middle. Delicious!

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Objective-Star7834@reddit

sherbet dip dabs, if they even make them any more!

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RBisoldandtired@reddit

KSI?

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moremattymattmatt@reddit (OP)

I’ve never heard of KSI, I’ll have a look. At this rate I’ll have to make my own

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RBisoldandtired@reddit

Haha he’s a YouTuber but he had unknowingly been eating whole electrolyte tablets instead of diluting them before a charity football match lol

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worotan@reddit

My favourite sweets when I was a kid were like that, but I last saw them in 1981…

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trulycantbearsed@reddit

Lucozade dextrose energy tablets, I love them…my tooth enamel not so much though

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PhilOakeysFringe@reddit

Do you find these help with energy? I keep meaning to try something like them.

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trulycantbearsed@reddit

Not at all, but I like the mouthfeel:)

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VariousClassroom8056@reddit

Like refreshers?

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moremattymattmatt@reddit (OP)

Refreshers are the closest I’ve found but are poor cousin to the awesome effervescent tablets!

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king_ofbhutan@reddit

refreshers say hello!

not quite as in-your-face, but love hearts are sorta like that too

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Vequihellin@reddit

Came to the comments to suggest Love Hearts too. Fizzy Jerks would have been perfect for this if they were still around.

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BrowsingnDaydreaming@reddit

I wish I enjoyed my effervescent vitamins, they always make me gag. If you feel like taking them for me feel free 😌

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Oofoofoof969@reddit

As others have mentioned, refreshers.

Really glad you knew to only have one OP, seriously. A scary amount of people don’t realise you can overdose your system with vitamins and minerals if you take more than the recommended supplement amounts.

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RBisoldandtired@reddit

Aye read about what happened to Arctic explorers when they ate the livers of their sled dogs in emergency. Same goes with polar bear liver or seals.

Fucks you up.

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Oofoofoof969@reddit

Doesn’t even need to be that extreme unfortunately. The most common is Vitamin D and C poisoning because people feel under the weather and think ‘Vitamin D/C helps with energy and immunity’ and no joke, just completely ignore the vitamin intake recommendation on the bottle and will take 5+ a day, more common than you’d like to think.

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Refreshers would be similar.

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Sea-Still5427@reddit

Refreshers, sherbet lemons or anything else with sherbet.

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