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candy

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Also known as bonbon, 🍬, sweetie

Candy, also commonly called sweets, is a confection that features sugar as a principal ingredient. The category, also called sugar confectionery, encompasses any sweet confection, including chocolate, chewing gum, and sugar candy. Vegetables, fruit, or nuts which have been glazed and coated with sugar are said to be candied.

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Candy is a food item represented by the Unicode character "🍬" and categorized under "candies" in the Openfoodfacts database. This category includes 4,705 products. The nutritional profile for these items lists an energy value of 354 kcal, 3.3 grams of fat, 2.1 grams of saturated fat, 81.2 grams of carbohydrates, 56.6 grams of sugars, 1.6 grams of fiber, 2.3 grams of protein, and 0.43 grams of salt. The products carry a nutriscore of e and a nova score of 4.

The subject is associated with the hashtag "candy" and has a Commons category and gallery titled "Candy". It is referenced by 864 other encyclopedia articles. Additionally, a PubMed query for "candy" yields a count of 9,216 results.

Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, PubMed, Openfoodfacts, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Key facts

Food.name
Candy
Food.image
Candy in Damascus.jpg
Food.image_size
250px
Food.caption
Candy at a bazaar in Damascus, Syria
Food.alternate_name
Sweets/sweeties, lollies
Food.type
Sugar confectionery
Food.main_ingredient
Sugar or honey

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Nutrition · Open Food Facts

Typical values per 100 g · averaged across 4,705 products

eNutri-Score
4NOVA · Ultra-processed food
Energy
354 kcal
Fat
3.3 g
— of which saturates
2.1 g
Carbohydrates
81.2 g
— of which sugars
56.6 g
Fibre
1.6 g
Protein
2.3 g
Salt
0.43 g
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Research

9,216 papers

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Encyclopedic overview

25 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Industrial Revolution
  • Classification
  • Production
  • Packaging
  • Purposes of packaging
  • History
  • Marketing and design
  • Shelf life
  • Nutrition
  • Meal replacements
  • Vegetarianism
  • Health effects
  • Cavities
  • Glycemic index
  • Contamination
  • Choking deaths
  • Sales
  • Cultural significance
  • Holidays
  • Association with Halloween
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • External links

Candy, also commonly called sweets, is a confection that features sugar as a principal ingredient. The category, also called sugar confectionery, encompasses any sweet confection, including chocolate, chewing gum, and sugar candy. Vegetables, fruit, or nuts which have been glazed and coated with sugar are said to be candied.

Physically, candy is characterized by the use of a significant amount of sugar or sugar substitutes. Unlike a cake or loaf of bread that would be shared among many people, candies are usually made in smaller pieces. However, the definition of candy also depends upon how people treat the food. Unlike sweet pastries served for a dessert course at the end of a meal, candies are normally eaten casually, often with the fingers, as a snack between meals. Each culture has its own ideas of what constitutes candy rather than dessert. The same food may be a candy in one culture and a dessert in another.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “candy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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