when I was little you could put a for pack of refreshers in a can of 7up and you'd have a volcano now its just a quite fizzy what have they done to you my childhood friend . and the lolly's didn't return which sucks big time the green one's where the best.

I used to buy a 4 roll of these and would eat them practically all at once. They were pale in colour them and just pure ascorbic acid luxury. Ever since they have put natural flavours and colours there is no taste they aren't morish and a really good classic favourite has become bland and dull. Until they go back to the original recipe I'm staying clear.

I can't believe anyone has given these sweets a 5* review.

As a child, these were my favourite sweets. Tangy, fizzy and pretty damn good. When I started seeing them on the shelves again, I was pretty happy (despite being 30 years older!)

However, I might as well have been buying chocolate such was the difference between the 'new' and poor versions, in comparison with those which I used to love.

They're sweets. I don't want to see 'natural ingredients' or 'no added colour'. If I wanted something healthy, I'll have a banana. Parents who buy hyperactive children sugary sweets shouldn't.

Sweets are sweets. Don't mess with them. Let the health freaks buy healthy foods and let the rest of us, who enjoy exercising and having a treat now and again, buy sugary sweets.

Very, very frustrating. I'm writing to Bassetts as we speak....

The old refreshers used to have a foamy effervescence to it whereas the new sweets are chalky and drab.

Left deflated and disappointed.

I have to agree with everything I have read. I also have been a fan of Refreshers for years,It was the texture as well as the taste that I loved. The new variety has neither, they're too hard, that melt in the mouth and fizz on the tongue has gone. Bring back the originals, why do they have to spoil everthing. I say lets boycott Refreshers until they get the message!

New Refreshers are dire - texture and taste are all wrong. Add this to the new recipe for sherbet in the Dip Dabs (same company), which is also vile, those few guilty pleasures in life are gone. Disappointed and guarantee that I will not buy again.

I remember picking up a packet today to relive the fond memories of these great sweets. Upon biting the first one I immediately noticed the off taste. Bassetts Refreshers just do not taste right. I'm getting sick of sweets altering recipes to use 'natural' ingredients when all they do is destroy the flavor, which is the POINT of buying them in the first place! If I want all natural I wouldn't be eating sweets in the first place.

I'm not sure if I'll ever look at a pack of Refreshers in the same way again. Seems these complaints are all in 2008 which makes me think that they didn't change the recipe :/

At least I still have my Atomic Sourballs...

Bassetts Refreshers were my favourite sweets and for ages I couldn't find them in the shops. I was so excited to see them back on the shelves, but that soon turned to disappointment once I tasted them. I like the packaging, but thats about it. PLEASE BRING BACK THE PROPER REFRESHERS.

Bassetts Refreshers are flipping awful... what are they thinking? You don't mess with success and Barratt's just destroyed my childhood favorite. Yuck. If they want to make "natural" refreshers why didn't they just name them something else and leave the originals alone. BRING BACK MY REFRESHERS!!!

JOIN US ON FACEBOOK THE GROUP IS CALLED
'BRING BACK THE OLD REFRESHERS'

We have a dream, a dream for a world filled with ORIGINAL Refreshers, but we cannot do it alone! WE NEED YOU! We need to invite as many people as possible to join this group, we have heard that Barratts/Cadburys have discontinued other classic sweet lines such as MILK TEETH!

It is our duty to stop them in their tracks, WE WILL NOT LET THEM TAKE OUR YOUTH...WE WILL NOT LET THEM TAKE OUR SWEETS!!!!!

Please invite everyone you know, you never can spot a refresher lover, BUT WE ARE EVERYWHERE, we need to draw them out of the woodwork!

VIVA LA RESISTANCE!!!!!!!!

BRING BACK THE OLD REFRESHERS!!!!!!!! I dont know who did the taste test for these new ones but they obviously have no clue. Im really glad there are other refresher lovers out there!

i never knew there was so many bassetts refreshers lovers like myself out there! i feel exactly the same as everyone else! I was horrified when i found the new refreshers, i have been an addict for years now and they are my comfort food! They got me through my GCSEs and AS levels along with bad break ups! now i am in my final Year of A-levels and i just don't know what i am going to do without them, please bring back the old refreshers!

Refreshers have been my favourite sweet since I was a child (now 38) I was completely addicted to them (2-5 rolls per day). I think the new 'natural' recipe is horrible. They do not taste as fruity and they are hard and not as fizzy, they do not even taste as good as Love Hearts or Fizzers. I stocked up on the old ones but have almost run out. I don't know who Bassetts tested the new recipe on but surely it wasn't Refreshers lovers? I think that Bassetts have made a mistake and will see their sales of Refreshers dip as a result because I feel they taste nothing like the original and are not nice anymore.

My 4 year old grandson adores refreshers until last week when I gave him a pack and his response was 'I don't like these nasty sweets Nanny I want my nice ones'. I had took no notice of the new packaging believing the sweets would taste the same he will not eat them at all and I have exhausted my only supplier of the old ones. Please Please bring back the old ones by all means keep the wrapper but go back to the old recipe in order to make a little boy happy!