Candy Facts

To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a football field.

The estimated number of M&M's sold each day in the United States is 200,000,000.

It takes 7 to 21 days to make a single jelly bean.

In Japan, over 200 flavors of Kit Kat have been introduced since 2000, including cucumber, ginger ale, soy sauce, wasabi, green tea, and lemon vinegar.

Shellac, a glazing agent derived from secretions of the lac beetle, was traditionally used to give candies like Skittles and jellybeans their shiny coating. While most Skittles switched to plant-based alternatives around 2009, many jellybean brands still use shellac today.

In the mid-2000s, a Wisconsin dentist began paying kids a dollar a pound for their leftover Halloween candy. His own children told him it was a terrible idea. He sent the candy to troops overseas, and thousands of dentists across the country joined in. One military charity alone has shipped nearly 600,000 pounds of donated candy. Dental offices still collect it every November.