Sie tastete nach dem Traubenzucker, der neben der Handbremse lag, aber ihre Freundin nahm ihn weg und begann ihn aufzumachen. Die Freundin erzählte weiter, fast hysterisch, mit viel zu großen Worten, während das perforierte gelbe Bändchen um den Traubenzucker natürlich wieder abriss. Sie kratzte den Rest der Folie mit dem Fingernagel ab ...

I've quoted so long a passage to describe the Traubenzucker thoroughly. What are these called in American English or even in British? I gather these are what are known as Traubenzucker-Bonbons. I've googled glucose drops, glucose candies, dextrose candies, energy drops, and glucose tablets. The latter come mostly in pill form in a little plastic jar, which clearly does not respond to what is described above. And the other terms don't seem to have any idiomatic currency in English. Should I just call them "fruit drops" and ignore the energy supplement implications? Or is there a term I just haven't found?
Thanks for the help.
Also a footnote question: The word wieder in the quotation doesn't refer to any previous incident in the text, and the same word was also used the same way in an earlier context: with no referent. Is there an idiomatic usage here, such as "as she knew it would" or "unsurprisingly"?