Top 10 types of candy

By: Brennan McMahon

With Halloween happening just over a week ago, lots of kids have to decide what candy to keep and what to get rid of. This is a very hard decision to make so here is a list of the top 10 candies you should keep.

#1 Snickers

Snickers are a very popular candy bar that has chocolate, caramel, peanuts, and nougat. More than 48 million people think that Snickers are the best candy. Warning this candy contains nuts and milk.

#2 Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

Many people believe that this is the best candy with 42.8 million people liking it. It is the best selling candy in the world. This candy is peanut butter coated in milk chocolate. Warning contains peanuts and milk.

#3 Hershey’s Kisses

This is a milk chocolate candy that is individually wrapped. 42.5 Million people ate kisses in 2020. The first production of Hershey’s Kisses was in 1907, and they make 70,000,000 each day. Warning contains milk.

#4 KitKat

KitKats were originally developed in the UK but are now produced globally. This is a classic candy bar that consists of a wafer surrounded by milk chocolate. Warning this contains milk.

#5 M&Ms

M&Ms are a beloved candy to almost everyone, but most don’t know that peanut M&Ms are more popular than the classic variant. These candies are super good and nobody is upset when they receive them. Warning this contains milk.

#6 Hershey’s milk chocolate bars

This is the classic chocolate bar that everyone knows and loves. The Hershey’s company sells more than 250 million bars each year. Warning contains milk.

#7 Twix

Twix is one of the best candy bars in the world; it has the perfect mix of chocolate, caramel, and shortbread cookies. There are 161 million bars sold each year. Warning contains milk.

#8 Starburst

Starbursts were created in the 1960s by the Wrigley Company in the UK. The USA is where most Starbursts are sold. Over 16,000,000 people ate Starbursts this year.

#9 Skittles

These candies were created by the same company as Starbursts, just 20 years later, and just like them America buys most of them. Their iconic slogan is “Taste the Rainbow.”

#10 Candy corn

Either you love them or you hate them. These iconic candies fall last on our list but there are still more than 35 million pounds of them sold each year. These candies were developed in Philadelphia in the 1980s.

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