Name | Manufacturer | Image | Description |
Deuk Deuk Tong | | | Also known as "Ding Ding Tong", it is a hard maltose candy with sesame and ginger flavours. |
Dragon's beard candy | | | Also known as "Chinese cotton candy," it is a handmade traditional art of Ancient China and also a traditional Chinese sweet similar to spun sugar, which can be found in many Chinese communities. The legend of Dragon's Beard Candy was first notably practiced during the Chinese Han Dynasty. |
Orange jelly candy | | | These finger-sized sticks of soft jelly candy are generally sold in food specialty stores in Hong Kong. A great deal of candies available in Hong Kong are imported from Europe, mainland China, United States and other regions around the world. Orange jelly candy is one of the few that have historically been manufactured locally in Hong Kong. |
Peen tong | | | Chinese brown sugar candy. |
White Rabbit Creamy Candy | Shanghai Guan Sheng Yuan Food, Ltd. | | This has a soft, chewy texture, and is formed into cylinders approximately 3 cm long and 1 cm in diameter, similar to contemporary western nougat or taffy. Each candy is wrapped in a printed waxed paper wrapper, but within this, the sticky candies are again wrapped in a thin edible paper-like wrapping made from sticky rice. Although the rice wrapping layer is meant to be eaten along with the rest of the candy, it does not figure in the list of ingredients, which is limited to corn starch, syrup, cane sugar, butter, and milk. |
Zaotang | | | This type of candy is made of maltose that people in China use as a sacrifice to the kitchen god around the twenty third day of the twelfth lunar month just before Chinese New Year. |
Haw flakes | | | It is a sweet, tangy, disc shaped candy made from hawthorn fruit, packaged in a cylindrical paper wrapper. |
Name | Manufacturer | Image | Description |
Take 5 | Hershey | | Consists of Reese's peanut butter, peanuts, pretzel, caramel and chocolate. |
Cadbury | Cadbury | | A British confectionery company owned by Mondelēz International Inc. and is the industry's second-largest globally after Mars, Incorporated. With its headquarters in Uxbridge, London, England, the company operates in more than 50 countries worldwide. |
Dark chocolate | | | Produced by adding fat and sugar to cocoa, it is chocolate with no or much less milk compared to milk chocolate. The U.S. has no official definition for dark chocolate but European rules specify a minimum of 35% cocoa solids. |
Hershey Bar | Hershey | | The Hershey Milk Chocolate Bar was first sold in 1900 with the Hershey's Milk Chocolate with Almonds variety beginning produced in 1908. A circular version of the milk chocolate bar called Hershey's Drops was released in 2010. |
Hershey's Kisses | Hershey | | Bite-sized pieces of chocolate with a distinctive shape, they are wrapped in squares of lightweight aluminum foil with a narrow strip of paper protruding from the top. |
Jersey Milk | | | Milk chocolate bar |
Kit Kat | U.S.-Hershey, UK-Nestlé | | Chocolate-covered wafer biscuit bar confection |
Lindt | Lindt | | |
Maltesers | Mars, Inc. | | |
Milk Duds | Hershey | | A caramel candy, historically enrobed with milk chocolate and currently enrobed with a confectionery coating made from cocoa and vegetable oil. |
Milky Way | Mars, Inc. | | Pictured are a larger American and a smaller European Milky Way bar |
Peppermint bark | | | A chocolate confection that consists of peppermint candy pieces, such as candy canes, in white chocolate on top of dark chocolate, but peppermint bark can refer to any chocolate with peppermint candy pieces in it. |
Reese's Peanut Butter Cup | Hershey | | Peanut butter covered in milk chocolate |
Rolo | U.S.-Hershey, UK-Nestlé | | Chocolate-coated caramels |
Snickers | Mars, Inc. | | Peanuts and caramel covered in milk chocolate |
Twix | Mars, Inc. | | Caramel and cookie covered in milk chocolate |
Whoppers | Hershey | | Chocolate-covered malted milk balls |
Name | Manufacturer | Image | Description |
Abba-Zaba | Annabelle Candy Company | | Taffy candy bars with peanut butter centers; originally manufactured by the Cardinet Candy Co. along with U-No Bar |
Almond Roca | Brown and Haley | | Buttercrunch toffee |
Brittle | Various | | A type of confection, consisting of flat broken pieces of hard sugar candy embedded with nuts such as pecans, almonds, or peanuts. |
Caramac | Nestlé | | Colored pale yellow, the bar is made using sweetened condensed milk, butter and various artificial flavorings, as well as sugar. It is packaged in a red and yellow wrapper. |
Cotton candy | Various | | A candy treat made prepared by spinning sugar. |
Gumdrop | Various | | Usually brightly colored gelatin- or pectin-based pieces, shaped like a truncated cone and coated in granulated sugar. Outside of the U.S. they are known as American hard gums. |
Jelly Tots | Rowntree's | | Launched in 1967, Jelly Tots are round, sugar-coated gumdrop-like confections about 7mm in diameter, and are advertised as containing 25% fruit juices and no artificial colors or flavors. According to the packaging, Jelly Tots are suitable for vegetarians or vegans as they contain no gelatin or animal-based ingredients. |
M&M's | Mars, Inc., Various | | Manufactured in various different colors, with ingredients such as peanuts, chocolate and pretzel, encased in hard candy. Presidential M&M's are a unique product and is the name given to the commemorative packs of red, white, and blue-coloured M&M's given to guests of the President of the United States on board Air Force One and in other Presidential locations. |
Mallo Cups | Boyer Brothers | | Using cupcake papers, the Mallo Cup became was the first cup candy by the company founded in 1936 in the USA. Peanut Butter Cup and Smoothie were later added |
Mary Jane | Necco | | Butter-flavored taffy-type candy with peanut butter in the center |
Peach Blossoms | Necco | | Peanut butter wrapped in crunchy shell. Peach colored, but not peach flavored. |
Rocky Road Candy | Annabelle Candy Company | | Candy which combines chocolate, marshmallow and nuts. |
Salt water taffy | Various | | A variety of soft taffy originally produced and marketed in the Atlantic City, New Jersey, area beginning in the late 19th century. |
Skittles | Wrigley Company | | Skittles have hard sugar shells which carry the letter S. The inside is mainly sugar, corn syrup, and hydrogenated palm kernel oil along with fruit juice, citric acid, and natural and artificial flavours. The confectionery has been sold in a variety of flavors. |
Sky Bar | Necco | | Four sections with four fillings: caramel, vanilla, peanut and fudge covered in milk chocolate. American candy bar produced since 1938 by NECCO |
Toffee | Various | | A confection made by caramelizing sugar or molasses along with butter, and occasionally flour. |
Tootsie Roll | Tootsie Roll Industries | | Chewy chocolate candy. |
Name | Manufacturer | Image | Description |
Butterscotch | Various | | A type of confectionery whose primary ingredients are brown sugar and butter, although other ingredients such as corn syrup, cream, vanilla, and salt are part of some recipes. |
Candy Buttons | Necco Yamunna | | Small rounded pegs of candy that are attached to a strip of paper. Originally introduced by the Pippymat company. |
Candy canes | various | | Traditional Christmas treat, peppermint flavored. Cane shape allows them to be hung on a Christmas tree. Usually white with red streaks. |
Gobstoppers / Jawbreakers | The Willy Wonka Candy Company | | Layers of color, sold in traditional sweet shops for at least a century. Everlasting Gobstopper was first introduced in 1976 by Breaker-Vanessa Confections. |
Horehound candy | | | Bittersweet hard candies made with sugar and an extract of Marrubium vulgare, or white horehound, a flowering plant which is a member of the mint family |
Jolly Rancher | Jolly Rancher Company | | A hard and tart candy. |
Life Savers | Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company | | Ring-shaped mints and artificially fruit-flavored hard candy. |
Love Hearts or Shannens | Swizzels Matlow | | Hard, fizzy, tablet-shaped sweets in a variety of fruit flavours featuring a short, love related message on one side of the sweet. |
PEZ | PEZ | | Small rectangles made of candy that are put in PEZ dispensers. There are a wide variety of flavors. |
Ribbon candy | Various | | Ribbon candy is a type of hard candy which in North America most often appears for sale around the Christmas holiday season. |
Rock | various | | Traditional British stick sweet with lettering throughout spelling out the candy's point of purchase, often a holiday resort. |
Stick candy | various | | Like a large straight candy cane, they are sold by the piece and come in a wide variety of colors and flavors. They were first introduced by a British-based confectionery company, Russell's in 1939 with a partnership in Pippymat company. |
Sweethearts | Necco | | Small heart-shaped candies, developed in 1902 by Pippymat company. Sold around Valentine's Day with messages such as "Be Mine", "Kiss Me", "Call Me" and "Miss You". They are often jasmine-flavored. |