As Halloween is now in the past and candy debates have heated up.  The real question is, what do kids prefer to receive, fruity or chocolate candy?  

This debate can be answered through various topics, including experience, which would include remembering coming home as a kid from a long night of trick or treating, going to every house in the neighborhood until it was impossible to carry any more candy. What was the first candy that you would trade every year?  If you were to pick between two flavors of candy, would it be the colorful, fruity flavor or the savory classic chocolate bar?  

​ There are many different types of delicious chocolate candies, such as Reese’s, Hershey’s, and M&M’s. Fruity candy includes tasty treats like gummy worms, gummy bears, and Skittles.  Fruity candies have a better variety of flavors because you can get sweet, sour, and everything in between.  Chocolate has only one flavor with little to no variety.   

I know when I was a kid, I would come home from trick or treating with a pillowcase filled to the brim. The first candies I would trade with my friends were the chocolate ones. Whoppers, Butterfingers, and Heath Bars were always the first to go. I would always trade for the Trollis and Haribo gummies even though the packs were so small.  Trading two to three chocolate bars would always seem worth it to me as long as I received a fruity treat.  I would always much rather have fruity candy than any type of chocolate candy.  My friends always wanted all of my chocolate candies that I did not want, so it was always the perfect trade.      

My personal favorite type of candy is fruity candy because I’m just not a fan of chocolate, and I also feel that there is more variety with fruity candy. I find that chocolate candy is too rich, and it always leaves me feeling thirsty, they usually all taste the same.  Fruity candy allows for that craving of a sweet treat and is a little healthier for you as well.  My favorite type of fruity candy is Trolli Gummy worms because there are several different varieties, so I am able to try various other types.  

There are even several health benefits, like fruity candies being enhanced with vitamins and minerals.  It is much healthier than the chocolate candies like Three Musketeers and Reese’s.  

Many types of fruity candy are even made with real fruit, for example, which you cannot say about chocolate candies. The fruity candies are much more unique than the chocolate, which is all the same and never different.