Candy bar

A candy bar is a type of portable candy that is in the shape of a bar. The most common type of candy bar is the chocolate bar, including both bars made of solid chocolate and combination candy bars, which are candy bars that combine chocolate with other ingredients, such as nuts, caramel, nougat, or wafers.

Many varieties of candy bars exist, and many are mass-produced. Between World War I and the middle of the 20th century, approximately 40,000 brands of candy bars were introduced.

A chocolate bar is a bar-shaped piece of chocolate, which may also contain layerings or mixtures of other ingredients. A wide variety of chocolate bar brands are sold. A popular example is a Snickers bar, which consists of nougat mixed with caramel and peanuts.

The first chocolate tablets were produced in the early 19th century. In 1830, Kohler started producing hazelnut chocolate. In 1866, Fry's Chocolate Cream became the first mass-produced combination chocolate bar. The Goo Goo Cluster was the first mass-produced combination bar in the United States, including marshmallow, nougat, caramel, and roasted peanuts. In some varieties of English and food labeling standards, the term chocolate bar is reserved for bars of solid chocolate, with candy bar used for products with additional ingredients.

Candy bars containing no chocolate include:

• Abba-Zaba: taffy with a peanut butter center
• AirHeads: a taffy based candy that comes in multiple flavours
• Big Hunk: nougat center covered with peanuts

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  Bit-O-Honey: honey-flavored taffy with almond bits
• Cajeta Elegancita: caramel center covered with goat's milk
• Carambar: caramel-based candy

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  Caramac: caramel-based candy
• Chick-O-Stick: peanut butter center covered with coconut
• Choo Choo Bar: liquorice-based candy
• Hershey's Cookies 'n' Mint: mint-flavored Hershey candy bar with mint-flavored cookie bits
• Hershey's Gold: caramel-flavored Hershey candy bar with peanuts and pretzels
• Kendal Mint Cake: peppermint-based candy
• Laffy Taffy: a taffy based candy that comes in multiple flavours
• Mantecol: a peanut butter nougat bar
• Mr. Tom: peanuts and caramel
• Munch: peanut brittle-like candy

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  PayDay: peanuts and caramel
• Pecan log roll: cherry-laced nougat center covered with caramel and pecans
• Planters Peanut Bar: peanut brittle-like candy
• Salted Nut Roll: nougat center covered with caramel and peanuts
• Turkish Taffy: taffy-based candy
• Wazoo: taffy center covered with sprinkles
• Yeot-gangjeong: hangwa center covered in toasted seeds, nuts, beans or puffed grains mixed with mullyeot (rice syrup)
• Zagnut: peanut brittle wrapped in toasted coconut

• Candy making
• Dessert bar – dessert similar to a bar cookie (traybake)
• Energy bar – snack food
• Granola bar – snack food similar to granola (muesli) cereal in a bar shape
• List of candies
• List of chocolate bar brands

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• Mazze, Edward M. and Michman, Ronald D., The Food Industry Wars: Marketing Triumphs and Blunders (Praeger, 1998)

• Media related to Candy bars at Wikimedia Commons