New peanut butter and jelly M&M's candies announced by Mars headquartered in McLean, Virginia

Peanut Butter and Jelly M&MsPhoto byGood Morning America Screenshot

If you like the combination of peanut butter and jelly and M&M's, here is good news. The new peanut butter and jelly M&M's candies are hitting shelves in Virginia in December 2024.

Mars Inc. headquartered in McLean, Virginia announced the first new M&M's flavors in two years, exclusively on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Thursday, September 19, 2024.

The "GMA" journalists sampled the new flavor and loved it. They said the new candies tasted exactly like peanut butter and jelly.

New M&M'sPhoto byGood Morning America Screenshot

Gabrielle Dallas Wesley, the CMO of Mars Wrigley North America, told "GMA" in a statement:

"Peanut butter M&M's have been a longstanding popular flavor. The company is leaning into people’s nostalgia for their childhood comfort classics, turning the PB and J into a bite-sized treat that consumers have been asking to have on the shelves."

The new peanut butter and jelly M&M's flavor will hit stores nationwide this December.