Easter

• 90 million chocolate Easter bunnies are made for Easter each year.

• Each day, five million marshmallow chicks and bunnies are produced in preparation for Easter.
• 82 percent of Americans say they would prefer a chocolate or candy bunny for Easter, while only 4 percent say they would prefer a live rabbit.

• 63 percent of Americans would most like to receive a chocolate bunny on Easter morning, followed by marshmallow bunnies (10 percent).

• 75 percent of kids are willing to do extra chores for extra Easter candy.
  
• Kids first grab for chocolate bunnies (76 percent) when checking out their Easter baskets, followed by marshmallow treats (18 percent), malted milk balls/eggs (17 percent) and jelly beans (16 percent).
  
• More than half (57 percent) of kids get up before or at sunrise on Easter morning.
  
• 88 percent of adults carry on the Easter tradition of creating Easter baskets for their kids.

• 90 percent of adults hope for their own treat from the Easter Bunny.

• According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest Easter egg ever made was just over 25-ft high and made of chocolate and marshmallow. The egg weighed 8,968 lbs. and was supported by an internal steel frame.

• The first chocolate eggs were made in Europe in the early 19th century and remain among the most popular treats associated with Easter.

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Halloween

• 93 percent of US children will go trick-or-treating.

• 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).

• 26 percent of households will include full-size candy (chocolate and non chocolate) in their Halloween activities.

• Kids say their favorite treats to receive when trick-or-treating are candy and gum. 84 percent of kids said candy and gum are their favorites.

• Chocolate is preferred by 50 percent.

• Non-chocolate candy, 24 percent and gum, 10 percent.

• Kids' least favorite items to get in their trick-or-treat bags were fruit and salty snacks like chips and pretzels.

• 90 percent of parents admit to sneaking goodies from their kids' Halloween trick-or-treat bags.

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Christmas

• During the Christmas/Hanukkah season, more than 1.76 billion candy canes are made.

• Animal Crackers are not really crackers, but cookies that were imported to the United States from England in the late 1800s. Barnum's circus-like boxes were designed with a string handle so that they could be hung on a Christmas tree.

• The movie "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (2000) features nearly 2,000 candy canes.

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General Candy Trivia

• Seven billion pounds of chocolate and candy are manufactured each year in the United States.

• Chocolate is America's favorite flavor. A recent survey revealed that 52 percent of U.S. adults said they like chocolate best. The second favorite flavor was a tie (at 12 percent each) between berry flavors and vanilla.

• Chocolate manufacturers currently use 40 percent of the world's almonds and 20 percent of the world's peanuts.

• Seventy-one percent of American chocolate eaters prefer milk chocolate.

• The Midwest and the Northeast consume more candy per region than the South, Southwest, West or Mid-Atlantic states.

• The melting point of cocoa butter is just below the human body temperature -- which is why it literally melts in your mouth.

• Older children are significantly more likely to prefer chocolate than younger children (59 percent of 9-11 year-olds prefer chocolate vs. 46 percent of 6-8 year-olds), according to a recent survey.

• Denmark has the highest per capita consumption of candy in the world at 29.5 pounds.

• Americans over 18 years of age consume 65 percent of the candy that's produced each year.

• According to a recent survey conducted by NCA/CMA, candy is the No. 1 choice among children for afternoon snacking.

• Younger children are more likely than older children to prefer hard candies.

• About 65 percent of American candy brands have been around for more than 50 years.

• In the movie Psycho Alfred Hitchcock used chocolate syrup as blood in the famous shower scene.

• Americans eat approximately 26 pounds of candy each year. This is split equally between candy and chocolate.

• In 2000 Halloween was the top candy holiday totaling $1.985 billion in sales. Halloween was followed by Christmas totaling $1.435 billion, Easter totaling $1.856 billion, and Valentine's Day totaling $1.059 billion in sales.

• In the Gallup survey taken in 1998 43% of U. S. adults said their favorite flavor was chocolate.

• In 1999 Americans consumed 7.1 billion pounds of candy.

• When Standard Brands Company, owner of Curtiss Candy Company, was acquired by Nabisco in 1981, they realized they had somehow lost the original recipes for the Baby Ruth and Butterfinger candy bars. No one at the old Curtiss factory remembered how to make the candy bars, and Nabisco had to develop new recipes that customers would accept.

• Mars Bars and Bounty Bars were found in the farmhouse near the hole Saddam Hussein was found in when he was captured by U.S. forces.

• The Snickers candy bar was named after a horse owned by the Mars family.

• The melting point of cocoa butter is just below the human body temperature -- which is why chocolate literally melts in your mouth.

• In the early 1500's, the Aztec Emperor Montezuma of Mexico drank as much as 50 glasses of chocolate every day.

• Kids spend their own money on candy more often than anything else.

• 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 2-to-1 over candy that doesn't contain any chocolate.

• Nobody on the internet tries harder than Kandy X-Change to provide a better service to candy lovers around the world.

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