we wanted to find out all of the differences

between Skittles in the UK and the US.

This is "Food Wars."

In the UK, Skittles come in the following sizes.

Firstly, we have these 18-gram fun-size pouches.

Then we have these 45-gram bags.

Then we have a 125-gram bag of Skittles.

Next up is what I think is the most common size,

a 152-gram bag.

Then we have this one, a 350-gram More to Share bag.

Then we have our largest size, which is this one,

a 1-kilogram big-size share bag.

And in the US, our Skittles come in these sizes.

First one, the fun size, 10 grams.

We got the 61.5-gram bag.

Next size, 99-gram box.

Yeah, the movie-theater pack.

The share size. 113.4 grams.

First of the resealable bags, 204.1 grams.

This is the Grab n Go. 255.1 grams.

Next bag up, the sharing size. 442.3 grams.

The family size.

779.6 grams.

Hey, good enough for the Egyptians, good enough for us.

Pyramids. Check 'em out.

This is the party pouch.

1.4 kilograms.

Have you noticed how good I am at pouring these Skittles?

Can this be a job?

Forgive me for getting cocky, but I haven't spilled one.

The biggest size, the jar.

1.53 kilograms.

Now, for "Food Wars" and general-consumer purposes,

the 1-kilogram bag is our largest size.

However, I did want to point out this one.

A 1.6-kilogram bulk bag.

I was able to find one of these online

without too much hassle.

I think they are more aimed at, like,

vending-machine refills rather than consumers,

but yeah, you are able to get 1.6 kilograms of Skittles

if you are a massive Skittles fan in the UK.

We also wanted to check how many Skittles

you're getting in each country

and also if there is even color distribution.

So Joe has asked me to count all of the Skittles

in a 1-kilogram pouch,

and we're also going to sort them into colors

to see how many you get.

What color order makes the most sense in your head?

The rainbow actually has a order of colors?

To me, it's a bit of a ROYGBIV vibe.

I'm more of a CMYK guy.

Harry sorts Skittles and asks you about your day ASMR.

Ah! Whoops. Whoo, God!

They're all running around like they have personalities.

Just keep seeing the yellow-and-purple color combination

and thinking of Waluigi.

Wah!

Eh and eh. All right!

OK, I have now sorted them by color.

It was satisfying, but it did take ages.

Now we have to count them all.

So now we gotta count these.

And I am not spending all day counting these. So ...

Two ... four ...

I figure out how much 10 Skittles weigh.

Jot that down. Step two, weigh each cup,

obviously subtracting the weight of the cup.

And then take the weight of each cup, divide by 10.

Six ... eight ...

Three, four ...

Um ...

Is ...

After far too long spent sorting and counting these,

we have our final totals.

I feel like we learned something,

but I don't know exactly what.

What have we learned from that?

Uh, do not do that at home. It's an enormous waste of time.

We did some science today,

and that is the most important thing.

Now, while Skittles look the same in both the US and the UK,

the flavors are actually different.

For example, in the UK, purple Skittles

are flavored with black currant.

Whereas in the US, our purple Skittle is grape-flavored.

Back in the early 20th century,

the US government made it illegal to grow black currants

because it was spreading a wood-destroying disease.

Now, the ban has since been lifted,

but black currants never really became popular

as a flavor here. Certainly not as popular as grapes.

When it comes to tropical Skittles in the UK,

the colors and flavors are as follows:

pineapple, orange, fruit punch,

watermelon, and passion fruit.

In the US, our tropical Skittles flavors are

strawberry starfruit, which is pink;

mango tangelo, which is orange;

yellow is banana berry;

we don't have a purple one,

so we have a green one, and it's kiwi lime;

and last here is pineapple passion fruit, which is blue.

The Skittle-flavor controversies continue

with our wild berry Skittles in the UK.

A, because they contain cherry,

which is very much not a berry,

and also, B, because the colors are all over the place.

We have cherry in the purple one.

Apple and blackberry with the green one.

Blueberry is the light blue one.

Raspberry is the pink one.

And then strawberry and kiwi for the red.

Our US wild berry flavors are kind of close

to that of the UK's, and we too have a non-berry cherry.

They even added "wild" onto the title,

but I'm not buying it.

Berry punch;

the raspberry, which is blue, I don't know why;

wild cherry, which is not a berry;

green guy is melon berry;

and the pink one at the end here is strawberry.

Now, if I had anything to say about this,

I think I'd mix the colors up as well.

I think in my mind, blue raspberry would make more sense

than the current blue, which is blueberry.

I think blueberry would make more sense as the purple one,

because as we all know, blueberry isn't actually that blue.

It is more of a purple color.

And then I'd probably put pink as the cherry one.

Full-flavor lineup. Ah!

And, of course, we have Skittles Crazy Sours.

In the UK, our sour Skittles

are flavored and colored as follows:

we have sour cherry as the purple one;

we have sour green apple as the green one;

sour pineapple is the yellow one;

sour raspberry is the pink one;

and sour mandarin is the orange one.

In the US, Skittles sour flavors are also different.

So, purple is grape.

This one says "the original lime-up,"

so I'm assuming green is now lime.

Yellow is lemon.

Red, strawberry.

And orange.

Do you think they're as crazy-sour

as the packaging suggests?

Let's go.

Oh, it's sour. Bleh!

A very sane level of sour, unfortunately.

We reached out to Skittles to ask them

about their flavor choices,

and they mentioned they had a variety

of methods of picking flavors,

one of which is something called "social listening,"

which I assume means checking social media.

And due to popular complaints on social media,

the green Skittle was changed back to lime

after 10-ish years of being green apple.

With all this talk about flavors,

it's worth pointing out that some people claim that

all Skittles might actually taste the same.

In an interview with NPR, neuropsychologist Don Katz,

who specializes in taste, said, quote,

"it is cheaper to make things smell and look different

than it is to make them actually taste different."

Dot dot dot.

So, Skittles have different fragrances and different colors,

but they taste exactly the same.

This shouldn't come as too much of a surprise to you,

because if you've been stuffed up with a cold

or with allergies, you might know that

without your sense of smell, food can seem rather tasteless.

That's because our sense of smell is responsible

for a large percentage of what we taste.

General flavors like salty, bitter, sweet, sour,

those can be detected without smell.

However, more complex flavors,

such as fruit,

require both taste and smell to be recognized.

OK, Joe, I'm curious.

Let me see how many of these original Skittles

I can identify correctly without my sense of sight or smell.

So now, with the assistance of Yuelei or Joe,

so I'm going to go ahead and do this,

and can someone please place five Skittles in front of me,

and I will see if I can determine,

mask goes over the nose,

see if I can determine the flavor. Ready?

No. I mean, it's my mouth and my face.

Yuelei! What is going on with my breath and my mouth

that I'm getting pink eye?

Harry: My God.

You sicko.

Joe: Hey, Joe, are you going to try and trick me

by repeating flavors?

So, I've blindfolded myself.

Charlie has set five Skittles in front of me.

I don't know which colors they are.

I'm going to hold my nose as well, eat them,

and try and identify them.

First one.

Orange?

All right, wish me luck.

I really can't taste much.

That's tough! Wow.

I am literally just guessing.

I'm going to go purple. I have no idea.

All right, I need another one to compare.

That is making it way, way harder.

I think I got some more berry vibes from the second one.

I think the first one was a bit more sour,

so it was either maybe an orange or lemon.

I can't decide. Like, red?

That one, I don't have a clue about.

Lemon, yellow?

Last one.

Uh, red.

This is way tougher than I thought it would be.

I'm going to go with, like,

orange, strawberry,

lemon, green, and black currant, maybe.

Three out of five!

How'd I do?

[Joe laughing]

I couldn't taste anything. You guys wanna try?

That was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be.

I honestly think if I just saw it and still plugged,

then I'd be like, "Yeah, I got orange."

Sight, however, does not always play a significant role

in identifying flavors.

In June 2016, Skittles released a limited-edition

all-white version of their product

in order to celebrate London Pride.

They've carried on doing this ever since,

stating on the packaging that during Pride,

"only one rainbow matters."

So they ditch the rainbow in order to honor Pride month,

which is a nice gesture on paper. However.

Apparently, some people took this to mean white pride

and went on Twitter and voiced said observation.

The good news is that despite that,

most people did still appreciate the gesture,

so they have carried on doing it.

If they're all the same color,

how do you know which Skittle you're getting?

It's actually way harder to be, like, certain.

They have, like, a fruit flavor to them,

but they don't taste that fruity.

I was almost like, wait, did they also omit the flavor?

So now, because I can't see the color,

I'm not quite sure what flavor it is.

Here are all the Skittles products you'll find in the UK