The Top Selling Candy For Halloween 2022
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What’s the top selling candy for Halloween 2022? Yahoo recently posted an article about the top selling candy this year. Halloween is just around the corner, which means folks are already stocking up on Halloween candy (and will probably have to stock up again after they eat all their stash). So, what are the most popular Halloween treats to buy?
- Well, grocery retailer Kroger, which sells millions of pounds of candy each year, is out with a list of the top selling candy for Halloween.
- Topping the list this year is Hershey’s Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, followed by:
- Snickers
- Kit Kat
- Hershey Bar
- Tootsie Roll
- Twix
- M&M’s
- Butterfinger
- Milky Way
- 3 Musketeers
- a new poll by YouGov asked kids eight to 14 to choose their favorite Halloween candy, pitting treats, as well as candy alternatives, in head-to-head matchups from a list of 76 options.
- The Halloween options, which in addition to candy included things like apples, and granola bars, were then ranked by “win percentage.”
- Topping the list as the favorite Halloween treat is a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, with a 75.9% win percentage.
Kids’ Top 10 Favorite Halloween Candy
- Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup (75.9%)
- M&Ms (Original) (72.8%)
- Milky Way bar (70.6%)
- Hershey’s milk chocolate bar (69.5%)
- Kit Kat (67.6%)
- Gummy bears (66.9%)
- Hershey’s Kisses (66.7%)
- Reese’s Pieces (66.3%)
- Peanut M&Ms (66.1%)
- Twix bar (66%)
- As for what kids don’t want, black licorice is the most hated, with only a 16% win percentage.
- In fact, several candy alternatives did better than black licorice, including:
- Snack-sized bag of cookies (41.7%)
- Snack-sized bag of pretzels (41.2%)
- Beef jerky stick (28.8%)
- An orange (35.9%)
- An apple (32%)
- Sugar-free gum (30.1%)
Source: YouGov
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