Fun Facts: Candy Less than two percent of the calories in the American diet are supplied by candy.
In Europe during the middle ages, the high cost of sugar made sugar candy a delicacy available only to the wealthy.
Candy is simply made by dissolving sugar in water. ...
Germans consume twice as much candy as Americans.
Archeologists believe these documents to be over 2,000 years old. For this reason, some experts give the ancient Egyptians credit for inventing candy. The ancient Egyptians used honey to make candy by combining it with nuts, figs, dates, and spices. They used these candies as part of early religious services.
First Candy

It is believed that candy dates back to the ancient Egyptians at around 2000BC. The first ''candies'' were made from honey mixed with fruit or nuts. Sugar candy was invented by the Indians about 250AD.
What is the rarest M&M color?
tan
Brown was the rarest color, making up only 13% of the total. Now, this answer has an asterisk attached to it (as all the best answers do). *The rarest color M&M is actually tan.
20 Different Types of Candy.
Most Popular Candy in the United States
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
Twix.
Snickers.
Peanut M&M's.
Gummi Bears.
M&M's.
Butterfinger.
Kit Kat.
The Chocolate Cream bar created by Joseph Fry in 1866 is the oldest candy bar in the world. Although Fry was the first to start pressing chocolate into bar molds in 1847, the Chocolate Cream was the first mass-produced and widely available candy bar.
Mars and Murrie
M&M'S/Full name
They named the candy M&M, which stood for “Mars & Murrie.” The deal gave Murrie a 20% stake in the candy, but this stake was later bought out by Mars when chocolate rationing ended at the end of the war in 1948
It was very likely the Greeks, who introduced the word into our language. It appears that a popular treat among Alexander the Great's troops was a Persian delicacy called kand - a tasty reed garnished with honey and spices. The word "candy" probably came to us from this sweet that the troops brought home to Greece.
Top-selling chocolates and sweets. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are the No. 1 selling candy brand in the United States, consisting of white fudge, milk, or dark chocolate cups filled with peanut butter. They were invented by H. B. Reese after he founded the H. B. Reese Candy Company in 1923.
Last year, FOX Business was first to report on a limited-edition chocolate bar from the beans of ancient cacao trees in Ecuador that retailed for a whopping $385 a bar, making it the world's most expensive treat.