Each pack of Skittles is a bold, unapologetic burst of flavour: a sweet assault course for your tastebuds. Whether it’s the original fruit mix or their increasingly adventurous spin-offs, these chewy bullets have long punched above their weight in both flavour and cultural capital.

The Most Popular Skittles Varieties

• Skittles Original: The classic mix—Strawberry, Orange, Lemon, Green Apple, and Grape—hasn’t just stood the test of time, it’s defined it. This is the chewy baseline against which all other sweets are judged.
• Sour Skittles: Imagine your face after a sudden gust of vinegar wind. Now add sugar. These things are not for the faint of palate.
• Wild Berry Skittles: A glorious purple bag of berry-flavoured bravado. Includes Berry Punch, Strawberry, Melon Berry, Wild Cherry, and Raspberry.
• Tropical Skittles: Like a boozy beach holiday for your mouth. Flavours include Banana Berry, Kiwi Lime, Mango Tangelo, Pineapple Passionfruit, and Strawberry Starfruit.
• Skittles Giants: Three times the size of the original, but with the same unrepentant rainbow kick.

Skittles Trivia You Didn’t Know You Needed

• The rainbow slogan debuted in 1994 and has since become one of the most iconic advertising taglines in confectionery history.
• Skittles were originally imported from Britain into the U.S. in the late 1970s. That’s right: Britain built the rainbow before it was cool.
• The shell of a Skittle is technically made from carnauba wax—the same stuff used to polish cars and bowling lanes. Don’t let that put you off; it’s food-safe and shiny in the best way.
• In 2013, Skittles temporarily removed the lime flavour from the original mix, replacing it with green apple. Fans were so outraged that lime made a glorious return in 2021.

Who Buys Skittles?

Everyone from school kids to nostalgic adults who like their sweets loud, fruity, and wildly colourful. They’re a party staple, a gift filler, and the sworn enemy of bored palates everywhere. Perfect for kids' parties, sugar-filled gifts, and anything that needs a little edible chaos in a bag.

So go on—open the bag, ignore the colour, throw them all in your mouth at once, and taste the rainbow. Because let’s be honest: subtlety is overrated when you’ve got five colours of joy to chew through.