According to Lucky Charms' packaging, your favorite hearts, stars, and horseshoes are made up of sugar, modified cornstarch, corn syrup, dextrose, gelatin, and calcium carbonate.

Inspired by circus peanuts Lucky Charms cereal debuted in 1964 with bells, fish, arrowheads, clovers, and x-shaped oat pieces alongside marshmallows shaped like green clovers, pink hearts, orange stars, and yellow moons. The cereal was created by product developer John Holahan.

Make mornings more magical with irresistible Lucky Charms Cereal with Marshmallows. Every box brings Lucky's mix of marshmallow hearts, stars, horseshoes, clovers, blue moons, unicorns, rainbows and tasty red balloons to your breakfast table.

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A typical marshmallow contains sugar, corn syrup, and gelatin, plus some air. That's it. “A marshmallow is basically a foam that's stabilized by gelatin,” says Richard Hartel, a food engineer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In marshmallows, the foam is made up of air suspended in a liquid sugar mixture.

General Mills Inc., the Minneapolis-based company that makes Lucky Charms, Cheerios and other cereals, said it's aware of those reports and takes them seriously.

Different civilizations including the Babylonians, Assyrians, and Persians made and wore charms. The Babylonians are believed to be the first people to wear charms on a bracelet around 700 BC. Egyptians started using charms as early as 3000 BC.

Whether you grasp such good luck charms in your palm, wear them around your neck, or mount one near your front door these talismans or amulets are meant to provide a shortcut to a better future, a warding off of evil spirits or bad forces.

Through boosting performance, a good luck charm has the potential to boost both confidence and self-assurance, thus bringing great benefits where mental health is concerned.

Pastry chef Alex Levin told Yahoo! back in 2014 the cereal ones are "made to be a candy, really." He continued: "For instance, Lucky Charms uses a method of making marshmallows that minimizes the amount of water. That makes it so shelf-stable that you could have a marshmallow that lasts over a year."

Ancient Egyptians were the first to enjoy a gooey treat now called marshmallow as early as 2000 BC. The treat was considered extremely special and was reserved for gods and royalty only. The marshmallow was originally made from the mallow plant (Athaea officinalis) that grows wild in marshes.

The fluffy candy is very appropriately named after the mallow plant, which is native to salty marshes in Asia and Europe. The combination of the plant's name and the environment in which it grows led to the term marshmallow.