The buildings arent the only authentic elements in the movie. The prop Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans really came in nearly every flavor. "Rich chocolate cake, buttered toast, lemon sorbet - they tasted exactly real," explains Emma. "But most of the flavors were really grim." The grossest beans the actors tasted were black pepper, grass, earwax, snot and vomit. That didn't stop Rupert, however. "I went through crates and crates of them," he says.
Source: Nickelodeon Magazine, October 2001 Issue