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Today FIZZIES® are the drink kids love to make and those young at heart will enjoy once again! In 2005, Amerilab Technologies purchased the Fizzies trademark and began manufacturing Fizzies as their own product. The tablets are now sweetened with sucralose (Splenda), and not only taste great, but are low in calories and have 100% Vitamin C in each tablet. New this Summer is our Hot Apple Cider and Hot Cocoa which are the seasonal and limited editions to the fizzies brand. Perfect for the holidays, these effervescent tablets (sold in 8ct boxes) dissolve quickly in warmed milk (Hot Cocoa) and hot water (Hot Apple Cider). The rich aroma is quite captivating and the taste is remarkable coming from a flavored tablet. Now available for purchase, these two Fizztastic flavors will begin shipping in August 2011. Fizzies Hot Apple Cider and Hot Cocoa are wonderful contributions to the Fizzies family of flavors and are surely to be a hit with all generations of Fizzies fans.
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People often ask why FIZZIES® disappeared from convenience store shelves many years ago... Fizzies were first created in 1957 by Emerson Drug Company in Baltimore, Maryland. The Company's signature product was called Bromo Seltzer, and effrevescent headache formula. The Scientist working at Emerson wondered if a fun, fruit flavored drink could be developed and after some long hours, they finally figured it out! Emerson Drug sold Fizzies on a regional basis, and in1956 Emerson Drug merged with Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Company, of Morris Plains, New Jersey. Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical went national with the Fizzies brand in 1962 and had great success. Then, in 1968, the FDA came out and banned the the artificial sweeteners used to make Fizzies, called cyclamates. Cyclamates were an essential part of making Fizzies tablets, and the scientist didn't know how to reformulate. Retailers were allowed to sell out their remaining stock through 1970, but after that Fizzies disappeared. In 1995, some of the original makers of Fizzies contacted effervescent contract manufatures Amerilab Technologies in Plymouth Minnesota, hoping the scientist there could reformulate Fizzies using aspartame. Fizzies were back on the market, but their re-emergence was short-lived, and Fizzies filed for bankruptcy in 1996.
