Editing After Eight (section)

== Manufacturing ==
The mints were originally manufactured at Rowntree's [[York]] factory, before production transferred to [[Castleford]], [[West Yorkshire]], in 1970. For the UK market they are now manufactured in [[Halifax, West Yorkshire|Halifax]] following Nestlé's closure of the Castleford factory in 2012, with over one billion After Eights produced every year.<ref name="guardian1">{{cite news |last=Treanor |first=Jill |date=10 December 2010 |title=40 years and billions of mints later, Nestlé to close After Eight factory |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/dec/10/nestle-close-after-eight-factory |access-date=6 October 2012 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref>

After Eights were originally made from dairy-free [[dark chocolate]]. In 2002, however, Nestlé started adding [[butterfat]] to After Eights made at certain production facilities so as to increase resistance to [[chocolate bloom]]. This practice expanded to all production facilities in 2009. Nestlé has also made special editions of After Eights, including orange After Eights and [[milk chocolate]] After Eights.

The fondant in the centre of After Eights is made from a stiff paste of common [[sugar]], water, and a small amount of the [[enzyme]] [[invertase]]. This fondant can readily be coated with dark chocolate. After manufacture, the enzyme gradually splits the common sugar into the much more soluble sugars [[glucose]] and [[fructose]], resulting in a more liquid consistency.<ref name="isbn0-7514-0269-9">{{cite book |author1=Dziedzic, S. Z. |author2=Kearsley, M. W. |title=Handbook of starch hydrolysis products and their derivatives |publisher=Blackie Academic & Professional |location=London |year=1995 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ck1cwsch_UcC&pg=PA62 |isbn=0-7514-0269-9 |access-date=13 April 2008 |page=62}}</ref> Once manufactured, each completed chocolate is packaged in a sheath and then loaded into a box.{{Cn|date=December 2024}} After Eights are certified [[kosher]] dairy by the [[Orthodox Union]].<ref name="guardian1" />