Dr. John’s Sugar Free Candy, Healthy Hard Candy with Zero Sugar, Low Calorie Snacks, Vegan, Gluten Free, Watermelon, Green Apple, & Strawberry, 24 count, 3.84 OZ

It tastes really good but don't eat too much or you'll get adverse stomach affects! Not an intense chocolate flavor, but is best for late night cravings!

They are terrible. I love black licorice and this was the worst black licorice flavor I have ever had :(

Taste good and hard candy is okay, but I wish they could use these ingredients to make the chewy black licorice so we don't get all the harmful dyes and sweeteners they always use.

I was craving black licorice but didn’t want the sugar so I opted to give this a try. The taste was not that great initially but oddly it grew on me. And It curbed my appetite some. If you are expecting something real sweet this is not for you, but if you don’t want something overly sweet then this will do. I do like the fact that it is naturally flavored with the star of anise. For health conscious folks it is a win. Looking forward to trying other items from this brand. Gave it 4 stars because it does taste like black licorice but yet it is a little overwhelming with star of anise. Overall, not too bad

Mild flavor, pretty good taste. They do make me wish for the flavor punch of a jolly rancher, but for a sugar free option, they're decent. The green ones have a slight peppery taste that I don't love, but they also aren't bad. I feel like the size of the bag for the price isn't a great value.

These are yummy! My favorite is the apple. It's hard to get watermelon candy flavor right. It's not bad but it's no Jolly Rancher or Blow Pop. Besides that, it's pretty good. If you don't mind paying a high price for sugar free candy, then I will rate this 10/10 in quality. Highly recommend.

I was recently turned on the Dr John’s lollipops by my new dentist. I have a horrible sweet tooth and I tend to indulge it with super hard, slow to eat lollipops, but with my (really) bad teeth, that sugar isn’t doing me any favors. I doubted these hard candies would be any good as most sugar free things I’ve tried are gross and most xylitol products have a slight cool, almost mint, flavor to them.These hard candies blew every expectation I had right out of the water. They were so good I ate 2 of the 3 instantly then had to fight with myself to save the final one for my mom to try. My mom has blood sugar issues and after trying one, she insists on getting to try one from every flavor I buy, lol. I’ve tried 2 of the 3 flavors in this pack and both blew me away. I’ve tried 3 other fruit flavors as well and they were all equally good. *They don’t taste like artificial sweetners*, either. They taste just like candy made with real sugar.But perhaps the most important aspects aren’t the taste. Rather, there’s serious benefits for someone with my medical issues. I have an autoimmune disease that screws up my production of saliva. This means my teeth rot, my mouth can get so dry I actually lose my voice, and most hard candies (and many other foods) can leave sores in my mouth. These candies won’t rot my teeth, the xylitol stimulates the saliva glands and keeps production up without sugar or chewing (letting me ditch the snacks and Sprites), and these candies don’t leave me with sores. I imagine if I ate 5 in a row I might get the sores, but when things are bad, a single jolly rancher can shred every square inch of my mouth and these do no harm at all.The lollipops are bigger than the regular little hard candies, meaning there’s more candies in a bag of the regular little ones but the big lollipops take longer to eat. There’s 24 candies in this particular package.

Let it be clear. I love licorice. I love chewy soft licorice candies. I love hard licorice candies. They can be expensive and made with all natural organic perfectly healthy ingredients, or they can be cheap crap from the bargain bin. I love them whether they are the tiny severely intense kind or the big sugary drops that barely have any flavor. Yes, I even love licorice root, those brown sticks that sometimes still have a little dirt still left on them. I could chew on one, stringy fibers stuck in my teeth, for hours. For the sake of this review, it must be stated that I also love clove, including its slight numbing effect in my mouth.And I do not love these candies.I thought it would probably be impossible not to, due to my fondness for every other kind of licorice in the history of licorice products.Let me explain. For the first 20 or 30 seconds after popping one of these little jewels into my mouth, I was excited. Yes. Yum yum! Licorice!But then for the next minute or so that it sat on my tongue, the flavor started to transform. At first it got a bit less licorice-like and a bit more clove-like, with a sharpness, a slight spiciness, which was also pretty much okay, but a little disappointing after the initial promising licorice experience.Unfortunately, the longer I held this thing in my mouth, the more numb my tongue became, and the more the flavor slowly turned from clove into something more akin to the likes of some sort of lighter fuel.I persevered, licorice lover that I am, but it only got worse until finally it had completely dissolved. Phew!I thought I could put another flavored candy in my mouth, like, hey, this watermelon flavored one, to end the numb lighter fuel torture, but it lingered on and on. The watermelon, and then the lemon, and then the cherry were simply no match for it. My poor tongue had to wait a long time for normalcy to return.I wish so much I could love these sugar-free licorice candies because I really do not want sugar, nor do I want most artificial sweeteners. But alas, I’ll have to go back to chewing on sticks.