Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans

"You want to be careful with those. When they say every flavour, they mean every flavour - 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-flavoured one once."

- Ron to Harry

Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans are the most popular wizarding treat in the world. They are the same as Muggle jelly beans, except they have every flavour, and you never know what you're about to get. You can guess from the colour of the bean. The inventor of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans was Bertie Bott, who created them in 1935 by mistake. He was planning on making tasty sweets from food, but accidentally made one taste like a dirty sock. He recognized the sales potential of a "risk with every mouthful!"

There are ordinary flavours like chocolate, peppermint, and marmalade, but also less fanciable ones like liver, spinach and tripe.

In 1992, while Harry is in the hospital wing Albus Dumbledore tells him that he was unfortunate enough to come across a vomit flavour one. Since then he has not liked them. He tries and gets a earwax flavour one.

It is a popular treat at Hogwarts, and can be bought off the lunch trolley on the Hogwarts Express, and is usually sent as a gift to someone ill in the Hospital wing. They come in bags or small, striped boxes. A total of 149 flavours are known.

Known flavours

 * Acid
 * Apple
 * Avocado
 * Bacon
 * Bagel
 * Baked Beans
 * Baking Soda
 * Banana
 * Beanstalks
 * Biscuit
 * Blackcurrant
 * Bogey
 * Bread
 * Brown Sugar
 * Brussels Sprouts
 * Butter
 * Buttermilk
 * Candy Floss
 * Carrots
 * Caterpillar
 * Cauliflower
 * Caviar
 * Celery
 * Centipede
 * Cheese
 * Cherry
 * Cherry Tart
 * Chewing Gum
 * Chicken
 * Chocolate
 * Chocolate Mousse
 * Cinnamon
 * Coconut
 * Cod
 * Coffee
 * Compost
 * Cookie Dough
 * Copper
 * Corn
 * Cough medicine
 * Cucumber
 * Curry
 * Custard
 * Diesel
 * Dirt
 * Earwax
 * Egg yolk
 * Eucalyptus Leaves
 * Flowers
 * Fried Beans
 * Frog Legs
 * Glue
 * Grass
 * Ham
 * Honey
 * Honeydew
 * Horseradish
 * Hot Sauce
 * Ice Cream
 * Ink
 * Iron
 * Kidney Beans
 * Lamb
 * Latex
 * Leather
 * Lemon
 * Lettuce
 * Lima Beans
 * Lime
 * Liver
 * Lucozade
 * Mango
 * Maracana Nuts
 * Marmalade
 * Marshmallow
 * Marzipan
 * Mayonnaise
 * Meatballs
 * Menthol
 * Milk
 * Mince
 * Mucous
 * Mud
 * Mustard
 * Noodles
 * Onion
 * Orange
 * Paint
 * Paper
 * Paprika
 * Parsley
 * Parsnips
 * Pasta
 * Peanuts
 * Pepper
 * Peppermint
 * Pepperoni
 * Perogies
 * Petrol
 * Piña Colada
 * Plaice
 * Potato
 * Prawns
 * Prune
 * Raisin
 * Raspberry
 * Rotten Egg
 * Rubber
 * Rum
 * Salad Dressing
 * Salmon
 * Salt
 * Sand
 * Sardines
 * Sausage
 * Shampoo
 * Shrimp
 * Soap
 * Soda Water
 * Sour Cream
 * Spinach
 * Squid
 * Strawberry Jelly
 * Strawberry Mousse
 * Sugar
 * Sulfur
 * Sushi
 * Sweetcorn
 * Syrup
 * Tartar Sauce
 * Tea
 * Thyme
 * Toast
 * Toe nails
 * Toffee
 * Tomato Ketchup
 * Tripe
 * Trout
 * Turnip
 * Vanilla
 * Varnish
 * Vinegar
 * Vomit
 * Walnuts
 * Wild grass
 * Wood
 * Worcestershire Sauce
 * Yogurt
 * Zucchini

Behind the scenes

 * The U.S. and Canadian editions spell them as "Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans"
 * In Harry Potter and the Philosopher'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 at least 44 years old when the inventor was born, this seems unlikely.
 * In the real world, Jelly Belly released jelly beans with selected flavors from the series. there are currently 25 flavors available. The review website Candy Addict rated these candies as #4 of the "10 grossest candies."

Appearances

 * Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone