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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.

M&M’s has a new "spokescandy" and she’s joining the brand’s iconic cast of characters. The new character – whose name is Purple – resembles a peanut M&M candy piece and she was designed to represent ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. For the first time in a decade, the M&M’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New cast of M&M characters Courtesy of M&Ms When you grab a regular bag of M&M's, the colors will remain the same: red, orange, ...