Editing After Eight

{{Short description|Mint chocolates made by Nestlé}}
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{{Infobox brand
| name           = After Eight
| logo           = Aftereight brand logo.png
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| image          = After Eight chocolate thin (adjusted).jpg 
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| producttype    = [[Chocolate]] [[confection]]
| currentowner   = [[Nestlé]] (1988–present)
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| country        = UK
| introduced     = {{start date and age|1962}}
| discontinued   = 
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| previousowners = [[Rowntree's]] (1962–1988)
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| website        = {{url|https://www.nestle.co.uk/en-gb/brands/chocolate_and_confectionery/boxed|nestle.co.uk/aftereight}}
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'''After Eight Mint Chocolate Thins''', often referred to as simply '''After Eights''', are a brand of [[mint chocolate]] covered [[sugar]] [[confectionery]]. They were created by [[Rowntree's|Rowntree Company Limited]] in the UK in 1962 and have been manufactured by [[Nestlé]] since its acquisition of Rowntree in 1988.<ref>{{cite journal |journal=European Management Journal |volume=9 |issue=1 |date=March 1991 |pages=1–17 |title=The Nestlé takeover of rowntree: A case study |first=Dana |last=Hyde |doi=10.1016/0263-2373(91)90044-q}}</ref>

== 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After Eights were originally made from dairy-free [[dark chocolate]].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" />

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{{Nestlé}}
{{Rowntree's}}

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