Angel Delight is a powdered

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product produced in the United Kingdom. It is designed to be mixed and whisked with

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to create a mousse-like sweet dessert. Angel Delight was released in 1967 by the Bird's company, in a strawberries-and-cream flavour. By the 1970s, Bird's had doubled the market for instant desserts. After a lull in popularity during the 1980s, a revival campaign, featuring Wallace & Gromit, was run in 1999. In 2006 the brand was the best-selling line in the UK instant cold desserts sector. The brand is now owned by Premier Foods. The dessert was named Britain's 'favourite childhood dish' in a 2015 survey by

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Varieties

Angel Delight is currently sold in five flavours:

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, butterscotch,

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, mint chocolate and

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. No added sugar variants of the butterscotch, white chocolate and strawberry flavours are also sold. Currently, it is available in three quantity variants: four-serving packets, twelve-serving tubs and single-serving ready-to-eat cups (launched in 2017 in an attempt to modernise the brand, with an accompanying

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campaign). Not all flavours are available in all size formats; for instance, tubs are only available in

and butterscotch flavours. Discontinued flavours include

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, tea, coffee walnut,

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, blueberry,

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, lime,

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, bubblegum,

tangerine The tangerine is a type of citrus fruit that is orange in color. Its scientific name varies. It has been treated as a separate species under the name ''Citrus tangerina'' or ''Citrus'' × ''tangerina'', or treated as a variety of ''Citrus retic ...

, vanilla ice cream, forest fruits,

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, candy floss, butter mint and

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External links

Angel Delight official page
Products introduced in 1967 Premier Foods brands Brand name desserts British desserts

Varieties

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