Candy has a long history as a familiar food treat available in 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.[1] 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.[2] Other sugars, sugar substitutes, and corn syrup are also used. Another famous type of candy is cotton candy, but some consider it a invert to sugar. Therefore, not a candy at all.
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Western candy marshmallow been sold as penny candy in general stores as well as in stores selling exclusively candy.
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 | Atkinson's Candy | 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 is made from the fermented, roasted and ground beans of the tropical cacao tree. In America, cocoa refers to ground cacao beans. Chocolate is the combination of cocoa, cocoa butter, sugar and other ingredients (milk, flavorings, and emulsifiers).
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 Peanut Butter Cup Hershey Peanut Butter covered in Milk Chocolate
Cookies and Creme Hershey Bar Hershey White Confection Bar with Oreo-like Cookies Scattered inside
Rolo U.S.-Hershey, UK-Nestlé Chocolate coated Caramels
Moiz heads
Gummies are gelatin based chewy candies that come in a variety of shapes, colors and flavors.
| Name | Manufacturer | Distinctive features |
| Gummi bears | various (Haribo, Trolli) | gelatin based, chewy, fruit flavored |
| Gummi worms | various (Trolli) | gelatin based, chewy |
| Gummi cherries | various | gelatin based, chewy |
| Gummi cola bottles | various (Haribo, Trolli) | gelatin based, chewy, cola flavored gummi bear |
| Gummi fish | various | |
| Gummi raspberries | various | |
| Gummi banana strawberry ring | various | |
| Other gummi shapes | various (Trolli) | |
| Fraise Tagada | Haribo, others | strawberry flavor and shape |
Hard candies, or boiled sweets, are sugary candies that dissolve slowly in the mouth.
| 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. Cane 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. |
| Jolly Rancher | Jolly Rancher Company | hard and sour. |
| 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 | 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. |
| M&M's | Various | Come In Various Different Colors, Containing Chocolate,Pretzels, And Nuts. Also Come In A Varietry Of Flavors. |
| 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 (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.[3] As a candy, they are often black with licorice flavor or red and strawberry or cherry flavored.[4]
| Name | Manufacturer | Distinctive features |
| Red Vines | American Licorice Company | 90 years old, popular in theaters[5][6] |
| Snaps | American Licorice Company | Pastel coating with licorice center. Introduced in 1930s[7] |
| Twizzlers | The Hershey Company | Fruit-flavored candy sticks |
| Trolli | Trolli - Mederer GmbH | Various soft licorice gums. |
Lollipops or Lollies are hard candies on a stick. The name lollipop was first coined by George Smith, owner of a candy company called the Bradley Smith Company. George named the stick candy after his favorite race horse Lolly Pop and trademarked the name "lollipop" in 1931.[8]
| 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. |
| Saf-T-Pops | Spangler Candy Company | Completely wrapped "safety" loop handles for young children |
|Dum Dum Pops |Spangler Candy Company |Amazingly popular and a whole yummy bunch of flavors|}
Sours are popular for their cringe inducing flavor and acidity.
| Name | Manufacturer | Distinctive features |
| Warheads | Impact Confections | sour fruit flavors |
| Sour Patch Kids | Cadbury Adams | sour fruit candy |
| Sour Punch Straws | 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] |
Chewing gum often referred to as gum and sometimes referred to as bubblegum, is a chewy candy.
Since the new millennium began, demand for "classic" candy has continued to rise. Many of the popular candies sold today were originally developed between the 1880s and 1950 by various candy-makers in America.[11]
| Name | Manufacturer | Distinctive features |
| Red Vines Black Licorice Whips | American Licorice Company | Old-world licorice with the same tried-and-true ingredients from its original recipe from 1914. |
| Chick-O-Sticks | Atkinson's | A crunchy peanut butter and toasted coconut candy stick. |
| Almond Roca | Brown and Haley | Buttercrunch toffee. |
| Caramel Creams | Goetze | Chewy caramel wrapped around a sweet fondant center. |
| Cinnamon Toothpicks | Candy Crate | Spicy cinnamon flavored toothpicks. |
| Tootsie Roll | Tootsie Roll Industries | Chewy chocolate candy. |
| Black Jacks | Ye Olde Pepper Co | Old fashioned black strap molasses.[12] |
| 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.[13] |
| 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 |
| 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. |