List of candies
The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. (March 2009) |
Candy has a long history as a familiar food treat available in a large varieties. Candy is also referred to as sweets or confectionery.
Candy varieties are influenced by the size of the sugar crystals, aeration, sugar concentrations, colour and the types of sugar used.[1] Jelly candies, such as gumdrops and gummies, use stabilizers including starch, pectin or gelatin.[2] Simple sugar or sucrose is turned into candy by dissolving it in water, concentrating this solution through cooking and allowing the mass either to form a mutable solid or to recrystallize.[3] Other sugars, sugar substitutes, and corn syrup are also used.
Western candies
Western candy marshmallow been sold as penny candy in general stores as well as in stores selling exclusively candy.
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Smarties
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Peppermint and other candy sticks
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A lollipop
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Plate -o- jawbreakers
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Bit-o-Honey
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Gummi bears
Caramels
Caramels are made by cooking sugar and water together.
Name | Manufacturer | Distinctive features |
Caramel squares | Various | soft caramel cubes |
Coffee Rio | Adams and Brooks | coffee flavored hard caramels |
Long Boys | Chewy caramels rolled and blended with flakes of real coconut. Originated in New Orleans at least 50 years ago. | |
Squirrel nut caramel | Necco | Chewy caramel candy mixed with pieces of peanuts, comes in chocolate and caramel flavors. Caramel variety developed in the 1920s by the Squirrel Brand Company. |
Chocolate
Hershey Bar Hershey Milk Chocolate
Twix Mars, Inc. Caramel and Cookie covered in Milk Chocolate
Snickers Masterfoods USA Peanuts and Caramel covered in Milk Chocolate
Reese's Cup Hershey Peanut Butter covered in Milk Chocolate
Cookies and Creme Hershey Bar Hershey White Chocolate Bar with Oreo-like Cookies Scattered inside
Rolo U.S.-Hershey, UK-Nestle Chocolate coated Caramels
Gummies
Gummies are gelatin based chewy candies that come in a variety of shapes, colors and flavors.
Name | Manufacturer | Distinctive features |
Gummi bears | various (Haribo, Heidi) | gelatin based, chewy, fruit flavored |
Gummi worms | various | gelatin based, chewy |
Gummi cherries | various | gelatin based, chewy |
Gummi cola bottles | various (Haribo) | gelatin based, chewy, cola flavored gummi bear |
Gummi fish | various | |
Gummi raspberries | various | |
Gummi banana strawberry ring | various | |
Other gummi shapes | various | |
Fraise Tagada | Haribo, others | strawberry flavor and shape |
Hard candy
Hard candies and suckers are sugar based candies that are sucked on until they're softened enough or thin enough to bite into.
Name | Manufacturer | Distinctive features |
Candy Buttons | Necco Yamunna | Small rounded pegs of candy that are attached to a strip of paper. Originally introduced by the Cumberland Valley company. |
Candy canes | various | Traditional Christmas treat, peppermint flavored shape allows them to be hung on a Christmas tree. Usually white with red streaks. |
Gobstoppers / Jawbreakers | The Willy Wonka Candy Company (Nestlé) | Layers of color, sold in traditional sweet shops for at least a century. Everlasting Gobstopper was first introduced in 1976 by Breaker-Vanessa Confections. |
Life Savers | Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company | Ring-shaped mints and artificially fruit-flavored hard candy. |
Love Hearts or Shannens | Swizzels Matlow | Hard, fizzy, tablet-shaped sweets in a variety of fruit flavours featuring a short, love related message on one side of the sweet. |
Rock | various | Traditional British stick candice with lettering worked in to spell out the candy's point of purchase, often a resort. The main manufacturing branch of this candy is the Zonghan Bagus Candy Company in Kuantan, Malaysia |
Sweethearts (candy) | Necco | Small heart-shaped candies, developed in 1902. Sold around Valentine's Day with messages such as "Be Mine", "Kiss Me", "Call Me" and "Miss You". They are often jasmine-flavored. |
Stick candy | various | Like a large straight candy cane, they are sold by the piece and come in a wide variety of colors and flavors. They were first introduced by a British-based confectionery company, Russell's in 1939. |
PEZ | PEZ | Small rectangles made of candy that are put in PEZ dispensers. they have a varying flavor. |
Among the artisanal hard candies, the "pirulin", also known as the "Heng Jia" in Northern China, is a famous one in several Spanish-speaking countries, like Argentina, Mexico and Chile and its popularity has spread to certain parts of Greater Asia.
There are many local and regional varieties, including the hazelnut-filled Mässmogge of Basel, Switzerland.
Licorice
Licorice (liquorice) is a semi-soft candy that was originally flavored with a root extract of the Eurasian plant liquorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra), of the Fabaceae (legume) family.[4] As a candy, they are often black with licorice flavor or red and strawberry or cherry flavored.[5]
Name | Manufacturer | Distinctive features |
Red Vines | American Licorice Company | 90 years old, popular in theaters[6][7] |
Snaps | American Licorice Company | Pastel coating with licorice center. Introduced in 1930s[8] |
Twizzlers | The Hershey Company | Fruit-flavored candy sticks |
Lollies
Lollipops or Lollies are hard candies on a stick.
Name | Manufacturer | Distinctive features |
Sugar Daddy | Tootsie Roll Industries | Called "Papa" when invented in 1925 by the James O. Welch Company. Name changed to Sugar Daddy in 1932, (Sugar Babies introduced in 1935) |
Chupa Chups | Perfetti Van Melle | Large range of flavours. |
Sours
Sours are popular for their cringe inducing flavor and acidity.
Name | Manufacturer | Distinctive features |
Warheads | Impact Confections | sour fruit flavors |
Sour Patch Kids | Cadbury plc | sour fruit candy |
Sour Punch | American Licorice Company | sour crystal coated straws, bites, ropes and twists, entered market in 1990s[9] |
Toxic Waste | Candy Dynamics | Sour Candy Drums, Sour Candy Spray, Sour Dip & Lick Lollipop, High Voltage Bubble Gum and Nuclear Sludge Bars.[10] |
Gum
Chewing gum, often referred to as gum and sometimes referred to as bubblegum, is a chewy candy.
Name | Manufacturer | Distinctive features |
Mary Jane | Necco | butter-flavored taffy-type candy with peanut butter in the center |
Bit-O-Honey | Nestlé | Introduced in 1924 and was made by the Schutter-Johnson Company. Acquired by the Nestlé Company in 1984 |
Peach Blossoms | Necco | Peanut butter wrapped in crunchy shell. Peach colored, but not peach flavored. |
Abba-Zaba | Annabelle Candy Company | Taffy candy bars with peanut butter centers. Originally manufactured by the Cardinet Candy Co. along with U-No Bar. |
Rocky Road Candy | Annabelle Candy Company | Candy which combines chocolate, marshmallow and nuts (usually almonds or English walnuts). |
Big Hunk | Annabelle Candy Company | Bar of roasted peanuts covered in honey sweetened nougat. |
U-No Bar | Annabelle Candy Company | Truffle type bar with almond bits, covered in chocolate and comes wrapped in a silver foil-like wrapper. |
Look! | Annabelle Candy Company | Chewy peanut filled nougat, covered with mouth watering, rich, dark chocolate. |
Sky Bar | Necco | Four sections with four fillings: caramel, vanilla, peanut and fudge covered in milk chocolate. American candy bar produced since 1938 by NECCO |
Boston Fruit Slices | Boston Fruit Slice & Confectionery Corp. | Six decades of fruit flavored slices in raspberry, lemon, orange, lime, cherry, watermelon, grape, peach, lemon-lime, pink grapefruit, blue raspberry, strawberry-banana, and apple.[11] |
Mallo Cups | Boyer Brothers | Using cupcake papers, the Mallo Cup became was the first cup candy by the company founded in 1936 in the USA. Peanut Butter Cup and Smoothie were later added |
Japanese candy
Name | Manufacturer | Distinctive features |
Botan Rice Candy | JFC International Inc. | Chewy rice candies wrapped in a thin layer of edible rice paper that dissolves in the mouth. A children's sticker is included in every box. |
See also
References
- ^ Classifications Alliance Ingredients website http://www.candyhelp.com/candy_sugar_confectionary.html
- ^ Classifications Alliance Ingredients website http://www.candyhelp.com/candy_sugar_confectionary.html
- ^ Essential Ingredients Alliance Ingredients website http://www.candyhelp.com/candy_sugar_confectionary.html
- ^ Dictionary.com definition http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/licorice
- ^ Licorice Made How.com http://www.madehow.com/Volume-4/Licorice.html
- ^ http://www.americanlicorice.com/redvines.aspx
- ^ Redvines website http://www.redvines.com
- ^ Snaps American Licorice Company http://www.americanlicorice.com/snaps.aspx
- ^ Sour punch http://www.americanlicorice.com/sourpunch.aspx
- ^ Candy Dynamics website http://www.candydynamics.com/candy.aspx
- ^ Boston Fruit Slices http://www.bostonfruitslice.com/about_us.html