A candy bar is a type of portable

candy Candy, alternatively called sweets or lollies, is a Confectionery, confection that features sugar as a principal ingredient. The category, also called ''sugar confectionery'', encompasses any sweet confection, including chocolate, chewing gum ...

that is in the shape of a bar. The most common type of candy bar is the

chocolate bar A chocolate bar is a confection containing chocolate, which may also contain layerings or mixtures that include nut (fruit), nuts, fruit, caramel, nougat, and wafers. A flat, easily breakable, chocolate bar is also called a tablet. In some variet ...

, including both bars made of solid chocolate and combination candy bars, which are candy bars that combine chocolate with other ingredients, such as

nuts Nut often refers to: * Nut (fruit), fruit composed of a hard shell and a seed * Nut (food), a dry and edible fruit or seed, including but not limited to true nuts * Nut (hardware), fastener used with a bolt Nut, NUT or Nuts may also refer to: A ...

caramel Caramel ( or ) is a range of food ingredients made by heating sugars to high temperatures. It is used as a flavoring in puddings and desserts, as a filling in bonbons or candy bars, as a topping for ice cream and custard, and as a colorant ...

nougat Nougat refers to a variety of similar confections made from a sweet paste hardened to a chewy or crunchy consistency.. The usual version in Western and Southern Europe is made from a mousse of whipped egg white sweetened with sugar or ho ...

, or

wafer A wafer is a crisp, often sweet, very thin, flat, light biscuit, often used to decorate ice cream, and also used as a garnish on some sweet dishes. They frequently have a waffle surface pattern but may also be patterned with insignia of the foo ...

s. Many varieties of candy bars exist, and many are

mass-produced Mass production, also known as mass production, series production, series manufacture, or continuous production, is the production of substantial amounts of standardized products in a constant flow, including and especially on assembly lines. ...

. Between

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and the middle of the 20th century, approximately 40,000 brands of candy bars were introduced.

Chocolate bars

A chocolate bar is a bar-shaped piece of

chocolate Chocolate is a food made from roasted and ground cocoa beans that can be a liquid, solid, or paste, either by itself or to flavoring, flavor other foods. Cocoa beans are the processed seeds of the cacao tree (''Theobroma cacao''); unprocesse ...

, 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 Snickers (stylized in all caps) is a chocolate bar consisting of nougat topped with Caramel#Candy, caramel and peanuts, all encased in milk chocolate. The bars are made by the American company Mars Inc. The annual global sales of Snickers is ...

bar, which consists of

mixed with

and

peanut The peanut (''Arachis hypogaea''), also known as the groundnut, goober (US), goober pea, pindar (US) or monkey nut (UK), is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds. It is widely grown in the tropics and subtropics by small and large ...

s. The first chocolate tablets were produced in the early 19th century. In 1830,

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started producing

hazelnut The hazelnut is the fruit of the hazel tree and therefore includes any of the nuts deriving from species of the genus '' Corylus'', especially the nuts of the species ''Corylus avellana''. They are also known as cobnuts or filberts according to ...

chocolate. In 1866,

Fry's Chocolate Cream Fry's Chocolate Cream is a chocolate bar developed by J. S. Fry & Sons and currently manufactured by Cadbury. Launched in 1866—nineteen years after Fry's created the first moulded, solid chocolate eating bar (in 1847)— Fry's Chocolate Cream ...

became the first mass-produced combination chocolate bar. The

Goo Goo Cluster The Goo Goo Cluster is an American candy bar created in 1912 by Howell Campbell and the Standard Candy Company in Nashville, Tennessee. The disk-shaped candy bar contains marshmallow nougat, caramel, and roasted peanuts covered in milk chocola ...

was the first mass-produced combination bar in the United States, including

marshmallow Marshmallow (, ) is a confectionery made from sugar, water and gelatin whipped to a solid-but-soft consistency. It is used as a filling in baking or molded into shapes and coated with corn starch. This sugar confection is inspired by a medicina ...

, nougat, caramel, and roasted

s. 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.

Non-chocolate candy bars

Candy bars containing no chocolate include: * Abba-Zaba: taffy with a peanut butter center *

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: a taffy based candy that comes in multiple flavours * Big Hunk: nougat center covered with peanuts * Bit-O-Honey-Bar

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

Carambar Carambar is a brand of chewy caramel candy from France, owned by Eurazeo. History In 1954, Mr. Fauchille, director of the Delespaul-Hazard company, and Mr. Gallois, an employee, had a surplus of Cocoa solids, cocoa and decided to create a new, o ...

: caramel-based candy *

Caramac Caramac is the brand name for a caramel-based confectionery created by Mackintosh's, and is manufactured by Nestlé. It was introduced in the United Kingdom in 1959 and was discontinued in 2023 and brought back for a limited period in July 2024. ...

: 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 Hershey's may refer to: * The Hershey Company, the chocolate manufacturer, commonly called Hershey's * Hershey's Ice Cream or Hershey Creamery Company * Hershey's Chocolate World, several visitor centers which started in Hershey, Pennsylvania, US ...

: caramel-flavored Hershey candy bar with peanuts and pretzels *

Kendal Mint Cake Kendal Mint Cake is a sugar-based confection flavoured with peppermint. It originates from Kendal in Cumbria, England. Kendal Mint Cake is popular among Climbing, climbers and Mountaineering, mountaineers, especially those from the United Kingd ...

: peppermint-based candy * Laffy Taffy: a taffy based candy that comes in multiple flavours * Mantecol: a peanut butter nougat bar *

Mr. Tom Mr. Tom is a candy bar containing roasted peanuts and caramel. Its wrapper has a yellow background and red text. It is manufactured by Hosta Meltis, a division of Swiss company Hosta International. Mr. Tom sponsored the football club Sheffield ...

: peanuts and caramel * Munch: peanut brittle-like candy * Candy-PayDay-Broken

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

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Chocolate bars

Non-chocolate candy bars

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