Mike and Ike’s lemonade blend candies to hit store shelves this week

BETHLEHEM, Pa. A new five-flavor assortment of Mike and Ike candies, Lemonade Blends, is coming to U.S. retailers.

Included in the Lemonade Blends mix are lemonade, lime lemonade, raspberry lemonade, strawberry lemonade and tangerine lemonade flavors. The Mike and Ike Lemonade Blends candies will be available for a limited time.

The new flavors came about after a contest held by Just Born to decide a new flavor of Mike and Ike’s candy. More than 140,000 votes were compiled online.

In conjunction with the new candy flavors, Mike and Ike’s has committed to making a minimum annual donation of $100,000 to Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, an organization with a goal to cure childhood cancer.