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Instead of the refined sugar found in traditional candy, these so-called "healthy" or diet candies may contain natural sweeteners and low- or zero-calorie sugar substitutes, as well added fiber.
Only one chocolate candy made it in the healthier top half. (Spoiler alert: it's Butterfinger.) The bottom half of the list contained mostly chocolate-based sweets, with Skittles as the exception.
For most healthy people, consuming a small amount of sugar (less than 5% of total daily calorie intake) is probably better for you than loading up on artificial sweeteners and other sugar substitutes.
A sugar substitute is a food additive that provides a sweetness like that of sugar while containing significantly less food energy than sugar-based sweeteners, making it a zero-calorie (non-nutritive) [2] or low-calorie sweetener. Artificial sweeteners may be derived through manufacturing of plant extracts or processed by chemical synthesis ...
A flavoring. A flavoring (or flavouring), [a] also known as flavor (or flavour) or flavorant, is a food additive used to improve the taste or smell of food. It changes the perceptual impression of food as determined primarily by the chemoreceptors of the gustatory and olfactory systems.
In 2009, Necco changed the formula for its Necco Wafers. Artificial colors and flavors were eliminated. The candy was made softer through the addition of glycerine.The lime flavor was removed due to difficulties in creating an all-natural green coloring, resulting in a 7-flavor Necco Wafer roll.
Candy bars and peanut butter cups made the list!
A natural food or ingredient of a food is not expected to contain, or ever to have contained, an added vitamin, mineral nutrient, artificial flavoring agent or food additive. A natural food or ingredient of a food does not have any constituent or fraction thereof removed or significantly changed, except the removal of water.