Fans of Butterfingers, Crunch, Baby Ruth, and O Henry bars be alert. Your candy might never be the same. Is that a good or a bad thing? I suppose that's up to you.

Nestle USA has announced it will remove artificial flavors and FDA-certified colors from all of its chocolate candy. Company officials say more than 250 products and 10 brands will be reformulated with ingredients from natural sources.

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Nestle says it has performed taste tests on the new candy and all is well. Here's some of the details from Fox News:

For example, in Crunch bars, a natural vanilla flavor will replace artificial vanilla used now. The center of the Butterfinger bars will now have annatto, which comes from the seeds found in fruit from the achiote tree, to replace FDA-certified colors like Red 40 and Yellow 5. In Crunch bars, natural vanilla flavor will replace artificial vanillin.

Officials say the reformulated candy bars will appear in stores by the middle of 2015. So if you're afraid of a "New Coke"-type problem now is the time to stock up.

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