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Here Are The Top 10 Candies For Halloween

Choosing the right candy for trick-or-treaters is a serious business. You want to be the “cool” house on the block. You also need to get the best value for your money. Retailers and candy companies provide sales data that shows a clear list of winners every year. These ten candies…

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Here Are The Top 10 Candies For Halloween

Halloween is the biggest candy-selling holiday of the year. The weeks leading up to October 31st are a battle for supremacy in the candy aisle. While there are hundreds of different options to choose from, a few classic, iconic brands consistently rise to the top of the sales charts. Based…

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5 Products That Disappeared Because of TikTok Ingredient Backlash

Social media platforms like TikTok have become powerful drivers of consumer behavior, especially when it comes to food and grocery products. In recent years, viral videos exposing controversial ingredients have sparked widespread ingredient backlash, leading to some products vanishing from store shelves. As shoppers become more ingredient-conscious, brands are forced…

Grocery Coupon Guide

M&Ms and Skittles will have options with no synthetic dyes in 2026

The Trump administration has gone after synthetic dyes in foods as part of its ‘Make America Healthy Again’ plan

The Independent UK

Food additive titanium dioxide likely has more toxic effects than thought, study finds

Controversial additive may be in as many as 11,000 US products and could lead to diabetes and obesity

The Guardian - US

Don’t taste the rainbow: New Florida bill looks to ban Skittles and other tasty treats

Florida bill SB 560 would give food producers until January 1, 2028 to remove certain additives

The Independent UK

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Florida cop accused of dealing drugs and trying to smuggle them onto a cruise to sell in Skittle packets

The suspect reportedly ran from local reporters when they confronted him about the accusations

The Independent UK

Marshawn Lynch Visited a Skittles Factory and Immediately Went Full Willy Wonka

Somewhere out there is a Skittles golden ticket.

Sports Illustrated

Jon Stewart expertly takes down companies exploiting ‘decades-long struggle of gay people’ during Pride

‘There is nothing corporations do that is not in service of their bottom line,’ the ‘Daily Show’ host said

The Independent UK

Skittles gets nonsensical in Gen Z flavoured brand refresh

Elmwood creates a flexible design for the next generation.

Creative Bloq

California becomes the first state to ban 4 food additives linked to disease

Brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben and red dye 3, which can be found in candy, cookies and more, will be banned starting in 2027 due to links to cancer other health effects.

WEKU

Parades but no public posts: which brands are supporting Pride in the wake of backlash?

As Target, Bud Light, Starbucks and others face threats and boycotts, here’s what other top US brands have planned

The Guardian - US

Health advocates urge US regulators to ban common food coloring additive

Titanium dioxide, found in candy, meat substitutes and packaged cookies, has been linked to a range of serious health issues

The Guardian - US

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Eurovision 2023 sees Queer Joy take over Royal Albert Dock

People will be able to have their portrait captured by a local queer photographer when visiting the exhibition

Creative Bloq

Skittles previews its Pride campaign, and it's... messy

Packaging tries to do too much.

Los Angeles Times

Robin Abcarian: Relax, candy lovers. No one is trying to ban Skittles. Well, not exactly

Scratch the surface of a Skittles and, wow, you will find so much more than a chewy fruit-flavored sugar bomb. The shiny candy is a bit like a Rorschach test; you see what you want to see in those rainbow-colored morsels.

Los Angeles Times

So long, red dye No. 3? Why lawmakers want to cancel a chemical found in your Skittles and strawberry Yoohoo

Skittles, strawberry Yoohoo and Walmart yogurt-dipped pretzels — what do these all have in common? They contain the controversial red dye No. 3 or titanium dioxide, which some California lawmakers are now waging war against.

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The Guardian - US

Why candy lovers shouldn’t panic over California’s ‘Skittle ban’

Bill aims to ban chemicals that appear in the candy, perhaps setting an example nationwide

The Independent UK

Skittles could be banned in California unless ‘toxic’ ingredient is changed

State concerned over foods containing certain additives

Los Angeles Times

End of the rainbow? California bill would ban sales of Skittles, other 'toxic' snacks

LOS ANGELES — The snack and candy aisles at your local grocery store could soon carry fewer items if a bill proposed by California Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel is voted into law.

WEKU

M&M's replaces its spokescandies with Maya Rudolph after Tucker Carlson's rants

The Fox News host attacked the minor brand changes as "woke" and declared that M&M's wouldn't stop until "you're totally turned off." Maya Rudolph will replace the cartoons as M&M's spokeswoman.

The Independent UK

Skittles escalates battle to stop fans throwing candy at Harry Styles

‘PSA: Protect your eyes from Skittles,’ the candy company wrote on Twitter

Axios

Even Halloween candy can't hide from inflation

Here's how much the price of popular Halloween candies went up this year

Wales Online

People needed to help fill gaps in the LGBTQ+ archive

Existing collections often do not accurately represent the intersections and diverse spectrum of LGBTQ+ identities

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