A Bittersweet Choice and Five Treat Facts

Chocolate and candy are both known as “comfort foods” in the world of kids and teenagers.
Everybody loves chocolate or candy or something to make their tastebuds tingle. It’s so deliciously mouthwatering and the luxurious taste that we can really sink out teeth into always leaves us craving more. Handfuls. Bucketfuls. Boxfuls. Roomfuls. Truckloads. Oceans worth. A worlds worth of candy and chocolate. It’s a kid’s dream and desire to just stuff themselves full of it!

Why do teenagers love candy so much? Simply because it’s delicious and to some because their parents won’t let them have it so they like it because they feel rebellious eating it. Sugary candies, sour candies, chewy candies and hard candies are just a few popular types of candies. Chocolate has different flavors and varieties too. Kids mostly like these sweets because it’s taste is fabulous and it makes them happy to be able to have access to something so amazingly fantastic.

Which would you choose? Candy or Chocolate? Maybe even just something like a sugary treat? A gourmet desert? Fruit? Baked goods? What sweet treat really makes your mouth tingle?

5 facts about sweets…

1. Chocolate makes you thirsty because it’s dehydrating. This occurs because chocolate has a more complex form of sugar than what can be used inside your body. To convert this new sugar into something your body can use, it requires water molecules that are put towards the complicated sugar transformation. Once the sugar is changed and the conversion is complete, your water supply has been depleted a little. Your body signals when you are thirsty so that you can replenish your water supply.

2. Chocolate comes from a bitter tasteless bean called the cacao bean. People make a cacao butter used in the chocolate. Something sooooo delicious comes from something so disgusting like a diamond coming from coal. You can see the process of making chocolate if you set up a meeting with a chocolate factory or you can click this link!

3. The two most popular Halloween candies in the world are Reese’s and M&M’s.

4. The world’s sourest candy is called Toxic Waste. (Don’t worry its really candy!) Get ready to make some faces. People said things like “pucker up buttercup!” after they experienced the bursting flavor like a stinging punch from this candy.

5. Cotton Candy is just basically pure spun sugar. That’s why it comes apart and melts into bits in your mouth. Of course, artificial colors and flavors are added.