What Are The Top 5 Most Popular Halloween Candy’S In The Us?

How many pounds of candy are bought for Halloween?

Is there any candy more classic than M&M’s? Whether they’re peanut, caramel, crispy or plain, these little chocolate buttons are everywhere for the Halloween season; 2.2 million pounds are bought for the holiday every year.

Snickers combines nougat, caramel, peanuts, and chocolate to create a chewy, tasty cand y bar that is beloved across the country. Trick-or-treaters will likely get their fill this Halloween season, thanks to the almost 2 million pounds sold on average. Next.

One Jolly Rancher weighs roughly 6 grams, so it’s crazy to think that about 950,000 pounds of these tiny hard candies are purchased for the Halloween season. That’s the equivalent of 7 million hard candies. These fruity treats are easy to buy in bulk and hand out to trick-or-treaters en masse. Next.

Roughly 9,732 pounds of these chocolate-covered caramels are sold during Halloween.

Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, in mini form and in pumpkin and bat shapes, may be the most beloved Halloween candy, but it’s only the second-most sold. About 3 million pounds are sold each year in anticipation of the spookiest night of the year.

Though Skittles first debuted in the 1980s, they are more popular today than ever before. They’re also the top-selling candy, with 3.3 million pounds sold on average, which is a ton of fruit flavor. And while Skittles reign supreme as the most popular Halloween candy of the 2010s, the most popular Halloween candies of the last 80 years were a lot different.

Sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes you don’t. But hundreds of thousands of trick-or-treaters will get nutty this Halloween; it’s estimated that 32,744 pounds of Almond Joys are sold on average. Almond Joys apparently sell much better than their nut-free counterpart as Mounds didn’t even crack the top 25.