20 Best Halloween Candies
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Discover the candy that kids actually love getting when they go trick-or-treating. Spoiler Alert: Candy corn is not one of these popular Halloween candies!
1. M&M’s
Originally inspired by rations eaten by soldiers during the Spanish American War, M&M’s live up to their tagline since they “…melt in your mouth and not in your hands.” They’re now available in multiple flavors including caramel and fudge brownie with even more flavors sold at theme shops in destinations like Las Vegas, London and New York City.
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2. Snickers
More than just chocolate, Snickers bars contain caramel, nougat and peanuts. And not just a random number of peanuts. Each regular bar has 16 peanuts.
3. 3 Musketeers
The 3 Musketeers is a milk chocolate bar filled with a special whipped cream and caramel ‘mousse’. It’s also delicious.
4. Hershey’s Bar
A Hershey’s Bar is a simple, unadorned milk chocolate bar. It’s also proof that a chocolate bar doesn’t have to be fancy to taste great.
5. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups are the most popular American candy. They also live up to the retro slogan that declared the sweet and salty candy to be “two great tastes that taste great together.”
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6. Smarties
In America, Smarties are sweet and tart tablet candies. Don’t confuse them with British Smarties, which are more like M&M’s.
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7. Twix
Proving that two candy bars are better than one, each full-size Twix package contains two chocolate-covered cookie bars. If you’re wondering which one is better, the answer is both.
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8. Tootsie Rolls
Keeping dentists in business for over a century, the Tootsie Roll has been loosening fillings since the end of the 19th century. Although it was originally a penny candy, each Tootsie Roll now costs more than a penny.
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9. Butterfinger
The Butterfinger has crispy peanut butter layers and a chocolate coating. It’s also Bart Simpson’s favorite candy bar.
10. Sour Patch Kids
Sour Patch Kids accurately claim to be “sour then sweet.” The candy’s slightly sour tingle comes from tartaric acid and citric acid. However, sweet is the dominant flavor due to the top ingredients – sugar, invert sugar (an industrial form of simple syrup) and corn syrup.
11. Kit Kat
The Kit Kat isn’t just a chocolate-covered wafer bar that’s fun to eat. It’s also one of the world’s most global candy bars with huge presences in countries like Japan and the US as well as in England, where it was invented.
12. Skittles
Skittles have chewy centers and crispy candy shells. Famously marketed as a candy rainbow, the fruity candy comes in flavors like green apple, lemon, orange and strawberry. However, despite those fruity flavors, the Skittles ingredient list doesn’t include actual fruit.
13. Reese’s Take 5
Each loaded Take 5 bar combines chocolate, pretzels, peanuts, caramel and peanut butter in a handy-dandy bar. The combination proves that more can be more when it comes to candy.
14. Milk Duds
Despite their roundish shape, Milk Duds are the opposite of duds. Instead, they combine chocolate and caramel in a candy that brings the yum.
15. Twizzlers
Don’t confuse strawberry-flavored Twizzlers candy with licorice. It doesn’t have licorice root in its ingredient list. But, hey, it’s twisted, which is pretty cool.
16. Nerds
You don’t have to be a nerd to like Nerds. The colorful candy is fun to eat, especially when you pour the sugary candy straight from the box into your mouth.
17. Whoppers
Whoppers are fun to eat whether you’re at the movie theater or at home. Beware: These chocolate covered malted milk balls can be addictive.
18. Starburst
Starburst candies are chewy, fruity confections that happen to be one of the most popular non-chocolate candies in America. Typical flavors include cherry, lemon, orange and strawberry. However, more adventurous candy eaters can opt for sour and tropical flavors instead.
19. Air Heads
More than a popular American candy, Airheads are a global creation. Originally from Europe, the colorful taffy candy comes in more than a dozen flavors.
20. Tootsie Pop
The Tootsie Pop takes the lollipop to the next level by inserting a tootsie roll in the center of the round candy treat. Its popularity soared after in the 1970s thanks to a commercial involving an owl, cow, fox and turtle.
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