There's a fine line between the look of candy and pills. They are both generally small, pellet-like pieces that are sometimes brightly colored or a simple, sugary white. No candy is more guilty of this as the infamous Smartie, small, round sugar "pills" that could easily come out of your medicine cabinet.
Nestle, the company that manufactures the candy, introduced a white Smartie when there were concerns that the blue Smartie contained concerning artificial additives. It was the one color that children sought out because of the way it stained their tongues a distinctive blue color.
The white Smartie, used because there were natural ingredients to make the color, didn't go over well. Not only did people miss the blue one, creating Facebook groups demanding it be brought back, but the white color and simple pill shape concerned people that it looked like potentially harmful medical pills. Kids may get the wrong idea rummaging through the medicine cabinet and eat a handful of something potentially toxic.
Luckily, Nestle said it found a way to create the blue Smartie without artificial colors from seaweed called Spirulina. Long live the blue Smartie!
