To begin our study, we used the search engine “Google” and first typed in “Welch’s Mixed Fruit Snacks flavor study.”  Most of the results that came up were either sites like Amazon, selling the product, or websites that had reviews about the product, as well has nutritional information.  We then tried rearranging the words to “Flavor proportion studies on Welch's fruit snacks,” to see if we get new results, the same websites appeared.  When we tried searching “Welch’s fruit snack flavors” the results we got were almost all nutrition related, such as calorie and sugar content.  We then tried to use the search engine “Bing”, entering the same phrases, which gave us results dealing more with ingredients in the fruit snacks, like the gelatin or vitamins used.  None of this information was very helpful in trying to find information about former studies because none of these websites mentioned anything about the proportions of flavors in Welch’s Mixed Fruit Snacks.  As far as we know, no other studies have ever been done on this topic and Welch’s has not released any information about their flavor proportions.  Since we could not find any information pertaining to our study, we have e-mailed the Welch’s company to see if they would mind sharing any information relating to their flavor proportions.  Although we could not find any other related fruit snack studies, we decided to look at similar products like M&Ms and Skittles to see how their studies were carried out.  There have been many studies done on the proportion of colors in bags of M&Ms.  The M&Ms website states that proportion of colors in their regular bag of M&Ms was 24% blue, 14% brown, 16% green, 20% orange, 13% red, and 14% yellow.  A study done by John Madison relating to the proportions of colors in individual bags of M&Ms concluded that most of M&Ms claims were valid, but some were further off; these results just based on his test which used 48 packages of M&M Milk Chocolate which contained a total of 2620 M&Ms.  We then looked at the same type of studies but with Skittles, and the Mars company states that their proportion of colors in Original Skittles are 20% red, 30% purple, 20% green, 20% yellow, and 10% orange.  Based on these two related studies, we expect to find that the true proportion of flavors in Welch’s Mixed fruit snacks are not the same.