Can you name a more cheerful food than candy? Sweetness, bite-sized packaging and vibrant marketing are all staples of the candy industry, but the options have become so plentiful that as Halloween ...

This Halloween season, the National Retail Federation expects that we’ll spend $3.5 billion on candy. If you’ve already bought that bag of sweet stuff to hand out to trick-or-treaters, you may have ...

No matter what you’re doing for Halloween, there’s sure to be candy involved, as well as many debates about the best sweet treats. Today, writers from The Daily Campus Life section share their ...

October is in full swing, somehow. Many people are eagerly anticipating the spookiest season of the year, and with it, one of the tastiest, too: trick-or-treat time. The online grocery delivery and ...

As cocoa prices continue to spike, shoppers see the jump-scare prices for chocolate candy at the grocery store this Halloween season. A streak of poor crop seasons has reduced the supply of the key ...

High cocoa prices are forcing chocolate makers into a bind: hike prices and lose sales to cheaper sour gummies this Halloween. Halloween is the season when chocolate thrives, but recent data show ...

As climate change has helped push cocoa prices higher, companies are changing candy recipes in subtle ways. Rolos are one of several candies whose packaging has been changed to omit the phrase “milk ...