Here are today’s five thing to know about Candy Corn:
- One serving of candy corn contains only about 140 calories.
- Candy corn has 3.57 calories per kernel.
- More than 35 million pounds of candy corn will be produced this year. That equates to nearly 9 billion pieces — enough to circle the moon nearly four times if laid end-to-end.
- Halloween accounts for 75% of the annual candy corn production.
- A cup of candy corn has fewer calories than a cup of raisins.
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Today’s Food History
- 1815 Andrew Jackson Downing was born. American horticulturist, author of ‘The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America’ (1845) and editor of the ‘Horticulturist’ periodical.
- 1894 The first U.S. patent for a time clock was issued to Daniel Cooper of Rochester, New York.
- 1990 ‘Ice Ice Baby’ by Vanilla Ice is #1 on the charts.
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Thanks for setting me straight! I googled. Now I now a lot more about corn syrup than anybody would probably ever want to know. Sugar chemistry is complicated! Sadly sugar of most stripes is off my grocery list, so I won’t get to try these cute little corn candies any time soon…
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Now that I realize candy corn has less calories than raisins, I’ll enjoy it even more.
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I stated the calories were the same…not they are superior to raisons. Corn Syrup and High Fructose Corn Syrup are completely different things. Google it.
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I’ve never heard of this stuff – had to look it up in Wikipedia. It’s nothing but fructose, the worst possible sugar you can eat and absolutely no comparison nutritionally speaking with a box of raisins. All I can say is… booooo!
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I didn’t need to know the calories of candy corn….no! I’ve eaten like 93445566788 and 3 calories then….. ;)
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