Inside the Swizzels 'factory of love' - home of Drumstick lollies, Parma Violets and Love Hearts

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with 250 different lines inside its New Mills factory. And did you know they make 250 Drumstick lollies a minute, resulting in a whopping 350 million a year with it's distinctive pink colour made from black carrots?ITV show Inside Britain's Food Factories, which airs tonight, will go behind-the-scenes at the firm,  showing viewers through the process of how the iconic drumstick lollies are made.

Lynda Hallam of Swizzels, explains: "We use two 28 tonne tanks of sugar a day to make our sweets."The secret of the pink colouring in the Drumsticks comes from black carrots.

The syrup which forms the base travels through a zig zag of steel pipes across the factory and heated to 125 degrees and the mix is held in a tank."If it was left to cool it.