Children and adults alike will always be crazy for jelly beans but the thought of these retro sweets actually being health foods is even more delicious! Now you've got a good reason for gorging up on those, but not exactly if you don't have a good need for it. There's a new type of jelly beans specifically created to provide loads and loads of energy which works great for endurance athletes who are going to need that entire boost for a long time. Thank God for Jelly Belly's newest innovation that just gave these old-fashioned sweets a whole new way to be loved.

The beans are actually electrolyte-packed, 80 mg of sodium and 40 mg of potassium, to be exact, and definitely go a long way in propping a person up for some hard rigorous activity by promoting a healthy level of cellular water content. All that is a whopping 100 calories per bean with a good dose of such antioxidants as Vitamins B1, B2, B3 and C that also work to charge one’s metabolism and immunity. With 25 grams of carbohydrates per bean, the package is simply unbeatable!

These beans may be more power-packed compared to those we know as traditional sweets, but they're perfectly safe for kids as well. Technically, they can be classified as sports beans with the right use. They were specifically made for athletes who undergo training longer than an hour. You don't have to be an athlete yourself to know that a tremendous amount energy is expended during this type of activity and if a sportsman won't have much of it stored in his body, that could spell disaster not just for his career but for his health or even life.

Lemon lime, berry blue, fruit punch and orange are the four flavors that these energetic beans come in. Because of their high vitamin content, they will have a slight after taste but they're generally much like those jelly beans we've known as retro sweets. Because they taste good, having them every forty-five minutes during workout is surely a treat.

If you're not an athlete and won't exactly be needing all that extra power, you will, of course, still want those old traditional jelly beans that accounted for a significant portion of why you now believe you had a happy childhood. And why not? When it comes to satisfying that sweet tooth, they’re still tops no matter what!