LAST year Mr Jelly Belly sold over 12 billion of his famous beans.

That's enough to encircle the earth more than three times over.

They are also the only beans to orbit the universe - the American astronauts on Space Shuttle Challenger munched their way through hundreds of beans as they penetrated the stratosphere.

There are 40 official mouth-watering Jelly Belly bean flavours to choose from, made mostly from natural ingredients, including Strawberry Cheesecake, Pia Colada, Coconut, Sizzling Cinnamon and Toasted Marshmallow to name but a few.

You can even be creative and combine flavours for a unique gourmet treat.

Eat two peanut butter beans and two grape beans for a peanut butter and jam sandwich; try two chocolate pudding beans, one cappuccino bean and one peanut butter bean for a slice of Mud Pie or one peach bean and one cream soda bean for a spoonful of peaches and cream.

If you haven't tasted yet you're in for a treat, but remember: once bitten, forever smitten!

We have a coin-operated Jelly Belly bean machine to give away to ONE lucky winner and FIVE 20-flavour gift boxes of Jelly Belly beans for the runners up.

All you have to do to enter the competition is answer the question and email your answer to louise.mcdonald@notes.newsquest.co.uk, to arrive by 9am next Tuesday.

The editor's decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

Q: Which flavours do you combine to create Mud Pie?