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The Candification of Our Food: The Case of the Fruit-Less Fruit Snack
The Center for Science in the Public Interest is challenging General Mills for promoting sugary treats as a healthful alternative to real fruit
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The Center for Science in the Public Interest is challenging General Mills for promoting sugary treats as a healthful alternative to real fruit
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A visit to the Sweets and Snacks Expo—formerly the All Candy Expo—suggests that pure sugar is dying a slow death
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Those visions of an iconic Christmas candy dancing in your head? They might be quaint, but they're probably wrong.
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Halloween's most iconic candy (and its most polarizing) used to be a year-round snack. Then came the candy corn explosion.
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Arsenic-laced jelly beans and razor-studded caramels aren't real. Faith in processed, sanitary foods certainly is.
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In 1916, candy marketers hatched a plan. The little-known history of Halloween's commercial predecessor.
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Part one in a pre-Halloween series on candy. Today: the origins of trick-or-treating, a relatively recent phenomenon.
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