When Halloween rolls around, the familiar triangle shaped candy with its orange, yellow and white stripes is as ubiquitous a sight as carved pumpkins. Factories produce millions of pounds of candy corn each year, but home candy makers can whip up a batch with the simple ingredients of sugars, butter, vanilla and some food coloring.

The predominant ingredient in candy corn is sugar. At least three types of sugar are used to make the typical batch of candy corn, including granulated sugar, corn syrup, honey, high fructose corn syrup or powdered sugar. One serving of the resultant candy consists of 22 pieces which have 140 calories, no fat and 28 grams of sugar.

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