The Rarest M&M's Color? It's Brown.
Brown is currently the rarest color of M&M's
As such, they used their own software to determine the proportions of colors within a bag of M&M's, and their findings were quite surprising.
Eventually, on the basis of 712 M&M's, he decided the color breakdown was now 19.5% green, 18.7% orange, 18.7 percent blue, 15.1 percent red, 14.5 percent yellow, and 13.5 percent brown, which would make Steve's beloved brown M&Ms the odd ones out.
When you grab a regular bag of M&M's, the colors will remain the same: red, orange, green, blue, yellow, and brown. But for the brand's advertising campaigns, there's a new color on the block: Purple.
Red: If your fingers tend to gravitate toward the bright red candies in the bowl, this implies that you're confident, bold, and passionate. Red is probably the most popular M&M color choice, but you don't care.
The Modern M&M
We're not surprised that blue beat out purple (just barely in fact, with a whopping 54% of the vote). Since the color vote in 1995, they've had the same colors we know and love, which means no purple.
There are three purple options for bulk M&M's: purple plain, light-purple plain and purple peanut.
When M&M's first hit the market in 1941, the original colors were red, yellow, green, brown, and, guess what? PURPLE. This variety of coated candies was sent around the world during World War II in its original cardboard tube packaging.
Much to the public's dismay, the Mars and Murray Company stopped production of red M&Ms because of a health scare concerning Red Dye Number 2, which at the time was the most common red food dye in use.
Blue is one of the rarest of colors in nature. Even the few animals and plants that appear blue don't actually contain the color. These vibrant blue organisms have developed some unique features that use the physics of light.
The M&M's family of “spokescandies” has grown and changed throughout the years, and now Red, Yellow and the others have been joined by a new addition. The brand-new candy character is… Purple!
It's Brown. In the end, he discovered that these findings did not match what was originally listed on Mars's website. In his samples, he found out that only around 13.48% of all M&M's are brown.
The OG M&M's came in a small tube that contained the colors: brown, yellow, orange, green and VIOLET! Violet and tan were apart of M&M's colors in its beginning stages.
The two most popular flavors across the country were the original and peanut M&M's. It's almost unfair to compare these two tiny titans to the rest of the flavors simply because they have been around for the longest time. The mighty miniature chocolates were introduced to us in 1941 as military rations in WWII.
The M&M name actually represents the two people who came up with the idea. M&M stands for Mars and Murrie - named after Forrest E. Mars Sr. – the founder of Mars – and Bruce Murrie, the son of Hershey Chocolate's president William F. R. Murrie.
Changes at M&M'S
In addition to adding Purple to the lineup, M&M'S has made other changes to the 82-year-old brand in recent months, including tweaking its logo and giving its six characters new shoes in an attempt to modernize the candies. Green has swapped her go-go boots for sneakers.
M&M's red scare: Why the candy color was discontinued for more than a decade. M&M's classic rainbow colors were missing their red hue for more than a decade. In 1987, CNN's Jeanne Moos reported on why the color was discontinued and how fans responded to its return.
In 1976 Mars Inc. discontinued red M&Ms due to public controversy around a particular red food coloring. While the red M&Ms were not colored with this particular dye, which was a suspected carcinogen, Mars removed the color to avoid customer confusion. They were replaced with orange-colored M&Ms.
In 1976, Mars eliminated red-colored M&M's because of health concerns over the dye amaranth (FD&C Red #2), which was a suspected carcinogen, and replaced them with orange M&M's.
White Chocolate M&M's was a Flavor M&M's (not confused to the Easter one) was a limited version for Australia only in 2004.
In 1995, fans voted to swap the beige buttons with blue M&M's. Mars has changed the colors of its flagship candy several times over the years, including for seasonal promotions. Today, purple joins a lineup of red, yellow, orange, green, blue and brown.
M&M's told the world it had replaced the candies with comic Maya Rudolph. And now it has gone a step further, by changing its name completely. Goodbye M&M's, hello Ma&Ya's. In a video shared on social media, Maya Rudolph announces this change (see below), and the reaction has been, well, mixed.
Black milk chocolate M&M's® are perfect for black tie events, Halloween baking or indulging a chocolate craving.
The Grey imposter M&M's is a fake M&M without an M on the grey shell. Red and Yellow want to find it for a million dollars in the USA, obtaining a winning game piece on winning bag ($100,000 in Australia).