You Probably Don't Know These Delicious Facts About Easter Candy

How much do you know about the second most popular candy-filled holiday of the year?

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On Apr 11, 2017
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Easter is fast approaching which means many of us will be indulging in some Easter candy. Before you begin chomping on chocolate bunnies though, let's unwrap a little info on all that Easter candy in your basket.

Like Peeps? How about 255 Peeps?

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You might have heard of the Nathan's Hot Dog-eating contest that goes down every year on July 4th. It's brings out the best competitive eaters in the country, but it's not the only holiday-themed eating contest. Easter has its own eating contest with the  National Harbor World Peeps Eating Championship, that saw eater Matt Stonie chow down a record-breaking 255 sugary Peeps in just 5 minutes!

For the sugary feat, Stonie earned himself a trophy, $1750 and likely one hell of a stomach ache.

Production of Peeps is in the billions.

Marshmallow Peeps have been one of the most popular Easter candies around ever since they were first introduced in 1953. Back then, they were handmade with a pastry tube and from start to ready-to-eat finish took over a day to make. Now the candy company in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania where they're made pumps out 5.5 million Peeps a day and over a billion a year.

Science says you're a weirdo if you eat your chocolate bunny feet first.

According to "science" there's a normal way and an abnormal way to eat your chocolate bunny. Research published in the The Laryngoscope journal found that 59% of people chomp the ears first, while a little under 30% of people had no particular starting point. Only 4% of people deliberately took a bite out of the bunny's feet or backside first.

As for people who enjoy pulling off the chocolate bunny's candy eyes one by one... well, maybe just watch your back around them.

Easter candy costs can range from just a few cents to thousands of dollars.

The most expensive chocolate egg of them all.

A drugstore piece of Easter candy might set you back 25 cents. Sure, it'll taste good, but it's nothing compared to the Faberge-style edible eggs of European chocolatier Choccywoccydoodah. These exquisite eggs with their elaborate drawings fetch prices of  £25,000 apiece or $35,000 in U.S. dollars.

Needless to say, the Easter Bunny really likes you if you happen to find one of them in your Easter basket.

Your dentist wants you to binge on that Easter candy.

Okay, saying that your dentist actually wants you to gorge yourself on Easter candy might be stretching the truth a little. But most dentists would rather you eat a lot of that candy in one sitting instead of over the course of several days. This is because if you're going to expose your teeth to high amounts of sugar and acid (found in hard candies) it's better to do it for a short period of time than a long period of time.

Also if you have the choice of eating dark chocolate over milk chocolate, it's better to go with dark chocolate as it can actually help strengthen your teeth's enamel. And be sure to drink plenty of water with your candy to help neutralize the acids produced by bacteria.

Easter candy by the numbers.

Next to Halloween, more candy is sold during Easter than any other time of the year. From jellybeans to cream-filled eggs, we like our candy and we're buying it by the fistful come Easter season with the average American spending $28 on Easter candy.

Here's the breakdown on all those goodies in your Easter basket.

16 billion jellybeans that are made for Easter each year.
70 percent of the Easter candy purchased is chocolate.
90 million chocolate bunnies are made for Easter each year.
$2.1 billion is spent on Easter candy annually.

The world's largest chocolate Easter egg.

Easter eggs come in all different sizes, but most don't stand three stories high. The largest and Guinness World record-holding egg was made in Tosca, Italy in 2011. The gigantic chocolate egg measured 10.39 m (34 ft 1.05 in) in height and weighed 7,200 kg (15,873 pounds) with a circumference of 19.6 m (64 ft 3.65 in) at its widest point.

There's no denying it, Cadbury Creme Eggs have gotten smaller.

The modern Cadbury Creme egg and it's more glorious, former version.

Cadbury Creme Eggs can be a very divisive candy, some people love them and other people (those who hate delicious goodness) can't stand them. The cream-filled chocolate eggs have been around since 1875 when they were created by the Cadbury brothers, but have undergone changes throughout the years.

The original was a dark chocolate shell filled with sugar-coated chocolate drops. Cream filling didn't find its way into the treat until 1923 and the Creme egg that we know today didn't show up until 1971.

Over the years, the candy has morphed to include caramel and peanut butter fillings, as well as the Halloween Scream egg. If you're in the U.K. you might even find Cadbury's Creme Egg ice cream.

The Cadbury Creme Egg is not without fault though, as back in 2007 the company did the unthinkable and shrunk the egg down. As for the company's reasoning behind the shrinkage they said: "no, they have not gotten smaller, you've gotten bigger."

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