Some Candy Facts for Halloween - National Confectioners Association
So Halloween is less than 2 days away - have you got your costume ready yet? Well, here’s some interesting facts about Halloween Candy from the National Confectioners Association:
- Bite-sized chocolate candies are the post popular type of candy to be included in Halloween activities (76 percent), followed by bite-sized non-chocolate candies (30 percent).
- Twenty-six percent of households will include full-size candy (chocolate and non-chocolate) in their Halloween activities.
- Kids tell us that their favorite treats to receive when trick-or-treating are candy and gum. Eighty-four percent of kids said candy and gum are their favorites.
- Chocolate preferred by 50 percent
- Non-chocolate candy, 24 percent
- Gum, 10 percent
- Kids’ least favorite items to get in their trick-or-treat bags were fruit and salty snacks like chips and pretzels.
- Fruit, 1 percent
- Salty snacks, 1 percent
- Toys, 2 percent
- Baked goods such as cookies/granola bars, 2 percent
- Other, 2 percent
- Don’t know, 5 percent
- Don’t trick-or-treat, 3 percent
- Ninety percent of parents admit to sneaking goodies from their kids’ Halloween trick-or-treat bags.
- Parents favorite treats to sneak from their kids’ trick-or-treat bags are snack-size chocolate bars (70 percent sneak these), candy-coated chocolate pieces (40 percent), caramels (37 percent) and gum (26 percent).
- Parents least favorite goodie to take from their kids’ trick-or-treat bags is licorice (18 percent).
- When kids ages 6-11 years old eat candy, they prefer chocolate candy two-to-one over candy that doesn’t contain any chocolate.
- Kids ages 6-11 years old say if they were given lots of candy, they would
- Share some with their family, 66 percent
- Share the candy with their friends, 64 percent
- Give some to their teacher, 26 percent
- Keep it all for themselves, 7 percent
- Don’t know what they would do, 2 percent