Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans

Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans
Food information
Sold	Hogwarts Express Sweets Trolley Honeydukes Sweetshop
Flavor	Various flavors; from Almond to Watermelon

"You want to be careful with these. When they say every flavor, they mean every flavor - you know you get all the ordinary ones like chocolate and peppermint and marmalade, but then you can get spinach and liver and tripe. George reckons he had a bogey-flavored one once."

—Ron Weasley to Harry Potter

Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans are one of the most popular sweets in the wizarding world. They are the same as Muggle jelly beans, except the range encompasses every flavor imaginable. There is also no way of telling for sure what flavor any given bean is without tasting it, although you can try and guess by the colour. The inventor of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans was Bertie Bott, who created them in mid-20th century by mistake. He was planning on making tasty sweets from food, but accidentally made one taste like a dirty sock. He immediately recognised the sales potential of "a risk with every mouthful!"

There are ordinary flavors like chocolate, peppermint, and marmalade, but also less fanciable ones like spinach, liver, and tripe. There are also flavors that are not actual foods, like grass, farm dirt, vomit, earwax, paper and bogeys.

In 1992, while Harry is in the hospital wing, he offered one to Professor Dumbledore. Dumbledore told him that he had been unfortunate enough to have come across a vomit flavor one in the past and since that occasion he had not cared for them. In spite of this, he decided to give them another chance and carefully selected a golden brown-coloured one that he assumed would be toffee-flavored, but turned out to be an earwax-flavored bean.

They are a popular treat at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and can be bought off the lunch trolley on the Hogwarts Express and in Honeydukes and are usually sent as a gift to someone ill in the hospital wing. They come in bags or small, striped boxes.

They were advertised at the Quidditch World Cup on a big screen; which shows how famous and popular they are.

Known flavors

"Ah! Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans! I was most unfortunate in my youth to come across a vomit-flavored one. And since then, I'm afraid I've lost my liking for them. But I think I could be safe with a nice toffee... Hum! Alas! Earwax."

—Albus Dumbledore

Almond Apple Bacon Baked Bean Banana Belly button lint Blackberry Black Pepper Blueberry Blueberry pie Bogey Broccoli Bubblegum Buttered popcorn Cheese Cherry Chilli Powder Chocolate Cinnamon Coconut

Coffee Cranberry Curry Dirt Dirty Sock Dog food Earthworm Earwax Envelope glue Farm dirt Fish Grape jelly Grapefruit Grass Gravy Green apple Honey Horseradish Ketchup Lemon

Liver Liver and tripe Marmalade Marshmallow Mashed Potatoes Mint Mustard Onion Overcooked cabbage Peach Pear Pepper Peppermint Phlegm Pink Grapefruit Pizza Pumpkin Roast beef Rotten egg

Sardine Sausage Soap Spaghetti Spinach Sprouts Strawberry Sugared Violet Toast Toasted marshmallow Toffee Toffee pudding Tomato Tripe Troll bogey Tutti-frutti Vomit Watermelon

Baked Bean

Bogey

Overcooked Cabbage

Chocolate

Coconut

Curry

Grass

Liver and Tripe

Pepper

Pumpkin

Sardine

Sausage

Soap

Sprout

Strawberry

Sugared Violet

Toast

Vomit

Behind the scenes

• In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Albus Dumbledore is heard saying that he had the misfortune of coming across a vomit-flavored bean in his youth. As he was 53 or 54 years old when the inventor was born, this would seem unlikely but Dumbledore had a great fondness for sweets it is mentioned on more then one occasion. However, given his old age, it is possible Dumbledore perceived himself as still being in his youth at that stage of his life.
• In the real world, Jelly Belly released jelly beans with selected flavors from the series. There are currently 25 flavours available. The review website Candy Addict rated these candies as #4 of the "10 grossest candies." The Bertie Bott's candies may have been inspired by Jelly Belly, which produces jellybeans in unexpected flavors like jalapeno and encourages consumers to eat different-flavored jellybeans in combination to create different flavors.
• Advertisement at the Quidditch World Cup: "Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans--A Risk with Every Mouthful!"
• In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, Dumbledore is seen offering three large chests of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans to Harry, Ron, and Hermione in the Hospital wing.
• At the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, you can purchase Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans at Honeydukes Sweetshop.
• It seems unlikely that consumers are able to tell the difference between certain flavors, such as Marshmallow and Toasted Marshmallow, Lemon and Lemon Drop, and Dirt and Farm Dirt. It is possible that they are somehow enchanted to allow a person to know its flavor once they have tasted the bean, but no explanation is given of where their certainty comes from.
• In the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) for consoles (except the PlayStation version), when you buy the Bertie Bott card, Fred and George will mention an unreleased "Dog Spit flavoured bean".
• In the first three console games, the beans were used as currency in Fred and George Weasley's shop at Hogwarts.

Pottermore

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Beans

In the visual experience in Pottermore, players can find these beans in the Hogwart Train Express. The description of these beans is "Bertie Bott’s Every-Flavor Beans really do come in all flavors, from chocolate to earwax and marmalade to liver."'

See also

• Bertie Bott

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (First appearance)
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (film)
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Mentioned only)
• LEGO Harry Potter: Building the Magical World
• LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
• The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
• Harry Potter Trading Card Game
• Pottermore
• LEGO Harry Potter