Fun Facts About Candy
- Cotton candy is made out of 100% sugar.
- Richard Cadbury invented the first Valentines Day candy box in the late 1800s.
- 110,000 plastic candy bars and 1850 real chocolate bars were made and wrapped by Nestle for the movie “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (2005).
- In 1998 a man was sentenced to five years in prison after he had stolen eight lorry loads of Mars bars that weighed more than 300 tons and were worth of approximately £70,000 each.
- Between 2000 and 2004, diet candy had a 34% compound annual growth rate and in 2004 the diet candy sales reached $495 million.
- The melting point of cocoa butter is just below the human body temperature -therefore it literally melts in your mouth!
- Americans eat 25 pounds of candy, per person, per year.
- Halloween is the holiday with the highest candy sales as each year over $2,000,000,000 worth of Halloween candy is sold!
- In Idaho it is supposedly against the law to give anyone a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds.
