Last year, that amounted to $75 million of $88.5 million in candy corn sales, according to the consumer research firm Circana.
Political Cartoons View All 1215 ImagesWhen compared to top chocolate sellers and other popular confections, candy corn is niche.
Several years later, the Goelitz Confectionery Co., now Jelly Belly, began to produce candy corn, calling it Chicken Feed.
Candy corn is basically sugar, corn syrup, confectioner’s glaze, salt, gelatin, honey and dyes, among some other things.
She equates candy corn with childhood memories of having to visit her pediatrician, who kept a bowl on hand.
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