📢 SERIES: Yes, you can patent food! ⚖️
🍬 Jellybeans

✍🏻 While the exact origin of jellybeans is not known, they became popular in the early part of the 20th century and associated with Easter in the 1930s. The bean itself is made of two distinct parts: a jelly centre and a soft candy shell. The first patent for jellybeans was granted to Jessie Farley Jr. in 1940. Ever since, jellybeans grew in popularity and led to the birth of world-famous jellybean brand, Jelly Belly®. What makes them different is their flavours are much more intense; both the coating and the centre are often flavoured, and they come in a much larger variety of flavours – everything from bubble gum to buttered popcorn to not so appetising flavours inspired by Harry Potter, including earwax and vomit.

ℹ️ Sources:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/
https://patents.google.com/patent/US2221373