[3] The sweets were invented in 1864 by an Austrian immigrant working at Fryers of Lancashire, and were originally marketed as "Unclaimed Babies".

[1] A line of sweets called Jellyatrics was launched by Barnack Confectionery Ltd to commemorate the "Jelly Baby’s 80th Birthday" in March 1999.

Bassett's Jelly Babies changed in September 2007 to include only natural colours and ingredients.

[13][14][15][16] A popular school chemistry experiment, is to put them in a strong oxidising agent, and see the resulting spectacular reaction.

[17][18] A poll of 4,000 adults in Britain voted jelly babies their sixth favourite sweet in August 2009.

[19] Jelly Babies are the favourite snack of Basil Brush, a British fox puppet.