Kinder Joy

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Kinder Joy
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A Kinder Joy egg
Produced by Ferrero
IntroducedApril 22, 2001;22 years ago (2001-04-22)
Related brands Kinder Chocolate
Kinder Surprise
Website kinder.com/joy

Kinder Joy (formerly known as Kinder Merendero in Italy and Bahrain) is a candy made by Italian confectionery company Ferrero as part of its Kinder brand of products. It has plastic egg-shaped packaging that splits into two; one half contains layers of cocoa and milk cream topped with two wafer balls, and the other half contains a toy and a spoon on top of the wrapper. Kinder Joy was first launched in Italy in 2001 and as of 2018 was sold in 170 countries. [1]

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Overview

Kinder Joy is a brand within the Kinder line of chocolate products sold by Ferrero. [2] [3] It has a plastic egg-shaped package with a tab to open it into two halves. [2] One sealed half contains layers of cocoa and milk-flavoured creams topped with two cocoa wafer spheres, to be eaten with an included spoon. [4] [5] The other half contains a toy. [3] [6] As of 2015, Kinder Joy is produced in Poland, India, South Africa, Ecuador, Cameroon, [7] and China. [8] Its main ingredients include sugar, vegetable oils (palm and sunflower), milk and wheat. [9]

History

An old Kinder Joy egg's packaging, sealed halves, interior and toy Kinder Joy.jpg
An old Kinder Joy egg's packaging, sealed halves, interior and toy
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A Kinder Joy egg split into halves

Ferrero launched Kinder Joy in Italy in 2001. [5] It has been sold in Spain since 2004, [10] in Germany since May 2006 [11] and in China and India since 2007. [5] It was launched in Australia and the United States in 2018. [12] [13]

In 2011, Ferrero opened a factory in Baramati, India, to make the eggs, in addition to other products including Tic Tacs. [12] In 2015, the company opened its first factory in China in the Xiaoshan District of Hangzhou, which produced Kinder Joy as its first manufacturing line. [14] As of September 2015 Kinder Joy was one of the highest selling candy products in the Chinese market and had received Nielsen China’s Breakthrough Innovation Award. [8]

Kinder Joy became available in Ireland in 2015. [3] In November 2015, Ferrero announced that it would sell the eggs in the United Kingdom, starting in December 2015. [2]

In May 2017, it was announced that Kinder Joy would be launched in the United States in 2018, as a similar product by Kinder, Kinder Surprise, is banned in the U.S. by a federal law. Specifically, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act bans all food products that contain non-nutritive objects embedded within them. [15]

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