Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc. today announced that Tootsie Rolls, Tootsie Fruit Rolls, Frooties and DOTS have become kosher-certified by the Orthodox Union, the world’s largest kosher certification agency. New packaging bearing the “OU” symbol will be distributed nationwide beginning in the next few weeks.
“We take great pride in producing wholesome confectionery products with fresh ingredients of the highest quality. This will bring our iconic brands to an entirely new consumer base that can now enjoy our products,” said Ellen Gordon, President, Tootsie Roll Industries.
The OU rigorously monitors of all aspects of production. It supervises the process by which the food is prepared, examines the ingredients used to make the food, and regularly inspects the processing facilities to make sure that its standards are met.
“We are very pleased to have Tootsie Roll join with other leading confectionery producers who have attained OU certification in recent years. It was also gratifying for OU to guide Tootsie Roll through the certification process and bring these famous candies to the growing kosher market place,” said Rabbi Eliyahu Safran, OU Kosher’s Vice President of Communications and Marketing. “It was rewarding for OU Kosher’s team, headed by Rabbis Dovid Jenkins and Abraham Juravel, as well as Phyllis Koegel, OU Marketing Associate, to corroborate with Tootsie Roll’s team and bring the much sought after Tootsie Roll products to an ever-growing kosher market place.”
According to an article by KosherToday posted on YWN in October, Gatorade is supposed to receive a “major Kosher symbol” as well.
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22 Responses
Will this include Tootsie Roll Pops?
it would be interesting to know if they had change anything to become kosher (ingredients etc..) or they were always kosher
The dentists will love this!
Now if we could get Hersheys to make Snickers cholov yisroel, then we could have taam gan eden in olam hazeh.
r they parve?
For many years it was the lack of hashgachah not the product itself.
bring on good-n-plenty!
anonymous,
nope, milchig.
http://www.tootsie.com./health.php?pid=165
To #2 – Only when a product has legitmate certification can you eat it…Ingredients is only part of the certification process
#4, that will need to wait for סעודת לויתן
#3- lol. you are right.
How about Skittles?
I know one of the mshgichim on the team that made it kosher. He said that non of the ingredients were changed.
And as of now the lollypops arent kosher. they are working on it.
So, now I can eat as much of them as I want and not gain any weight? 🙂
Why are so many people always dissecting other people’s comments to find some little, unimportant thing to criticize?
its about time, i know pleanty of people who were eating them before, i personally don’t like them
there was one ingredient that was not always sourced as kosher however that wasn’t much of an issue.
as far as CY, forget about it. we have no interest in paying 5 times the price for the stuff not to mention lousy quality.
#8 – Batul B’shishim does not work by allergies. It may be Parve yet!
#4 – what’s wrong with Cholov Stam?
#8 – Batul B”shishim won’t stop someone from having an allergic reaction. I can’t know, but I may be parve yet.
#10 – Kudos is a *different product*, you seem to be confused :p
#17 – That’s the whole fun of YWN!
One more thing about Cholov Yisorel and the OU. I don’t claim to be a sage, but I remember touring theOU and the guide said that the OU does not require Cholov Yisroel products to declare that they are on the packaging. Therefore, an OU-D product may indeed be Cholov Yisroel and not say so.
DOTS the best news I’ve heard in a long time.
#17, lol.
Is this insider information? Does Tootsie Roll offer stocks to the public?
My grandmother thought the day Entenmann’s became kosher moshiach was already here.
There is a tshuva in Reb Yaakov Entenmann about that.