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A new purple M&M has joined the bag! "Purple" is the chocolate candy's first-ever female peanut M&M and its newest character for the first time in a decade, the brand announced Wednesday, Sept. 28.

Mars says actress Maya Rudolph will be replacing its spokecandies following a controversy over one character’s shoes. M&M’s may not melt in your hand, but the button-shaped chocolates have wilted in ...

This live candy-making session creates super sour purple flavored hard candy with intense tang and bold color, showing the ...

Sept. 29 (UPI) --A new character is joining the lineup of M&M's mascots to mark the addition of purple candies to the bags of color-coated chocolate. Mars Inc., which portrays different colored M&Ms ...

When you grab a regular bag of M&M's, the colors will remain the same: red, orange, green, blue, yellow, and brown. But for the brand's advertising campaigns, there's a new color on the block: Purple.