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A Quick Guide to Candy Facts
Besides being great for the taste buds, there are other interesting candy facts you might like to know.
Candy - the word usually refers to foods made from sugar. It may be added to a liquid or sprinkled on top, but sugar is the thing. There is seemingly no end to the candy that we can make.
Some interesting candy facts:
Each year, there are 60 million chocolate Easter bunnies made.
Making a marshmallow peep takes six minutes.
Cocoa butter's melting point is only a bit above the human body temperature, which is why chocolate can melt in your hands as well as your mouth.
One of the most unbelievable candy facts: Americans over the age of 18 eat 65 percent of every year's candy production – not the kids!
Americans eat about 25 pounds of candy per person annually. In contrast, the people in Denmark eat 36 pounds per person.
From the list of bizarre candy facts:
King Tut's tomb contained large supplies of licorice.
Seven billion pounds of candy and chocolate are made in the United States every year.
Americans like chocolate the best of any flavor. 52 % of adults in the United States said chocolate is their favorite flavor. Second place was a tie – vanilla and berry flavors.
Makers of chocolate use 20% of the world's supply of peanuts and 40% of the world's almonds in their products.
In geographical candy facts, the Midwest and Northeast eat more candy than the Mid-Atlantic, West, South or Southwest regions.
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