Oops.

Today, I bought a bag of Jelly Belly sugar free sour jelly beans, hoping that I might soothe my insatiable urge to go into Tastee DeLite and purchase a bag full of bulk candy. I have developed a bag obsession with sour patch kids and other sour gummy candies of late, which is really not a great thing to do, and I hoped that buying myself something similar but not quite so bad for me would help.

The jelly beans themselves were not so tasty. They lacked the promised sour taste, and the only flavor that was moderately acceptable was the red one (the bag calls it "sour cherry" even though it tasted like no cherry I've ever had). Nonetheless, it was sweet and I am not equipped with self-control with regard to sweet-things-eating while at my desk. So I ate the whole bag. Which was two servings, and only 160 calories, so, really not so bad.

Except that, only after finishing the bag that I noticed the little red box stating WARNING below the nutrition information. As in, "WARNING CONSUMPTION MAY CAUSE STOMACH DISCOMFORT AND/OR LAXATIVE EFFECT. INDIVIDUAL TOLERANCE WILL VARY; WE SUGGEST STARTING WITH 8 BEANS OR LESS."

Yeah, so, the bag with its two servings and 160 calories was about almost 70 beans. So yeah, I just had eight times the recommended trial bean serving. And now, my tummy hurts. (No laxative effect just yet, FYI, but yeah. Ouch.)