A candy bar is a type of candy that is in the shape of a bar. The most common type of candy bar is the

chocolate bar A chocolate bar (Commonwealth English) or candy bar (some dialects of American English) is a confection containing chocolate, which may also contain layerings or mixtures that include nuts, fruit, caramel, nougat, and wafers. A flat, easily brea ...

, including both bars made of solid chocolate and combination candy bars, which are candy bars that combine chocolate with other ingredients, such as nuts, caramel,

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, or

wafer A wafer is a crisp, often sweet, very thin, flat, light and dry biscuit, often used to decorate ice cream, and also used as a garnish on some sweet dishes. Wafers can also be made into cookies with cream flavoring sandwiched between them. They ...

s. Many varieties of candy bars exist, and many are

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. Between

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and the middle of the 20th century, approximately 40,000 brands of candy bars were introduced.

Chocolate bars

A chocolate bar is a bar-shaped piece of

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, which may also contain layerings or mixtures of other ingredients. A wide variety of chocolate bar brands are sold. A popular example is a

Snickers Snickers is a chocolate bar made by the American company Mars, Incorporated, consisting of nougat topped with caramel and peanuts that is encased in milk chocolate. The annual global sales of Snickers was over $3 billion . In the United ...

bar, which consists of

mixed with caramel and

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s. The first solid chocolate bar was produced by Fry's of Bristol, England in 1847.

Fry's Chocolate Cream Fry's Chocolate Cream is a chocolate bar developed by J. S. Fry & Sons and currently manufactured by Cadbury. Launched in 1866, Fry's Chocolate Cream is the first mass-produced chocolate bar and is the world's oldest chocolate bar brand.The fir ...

became the first mass-produced chocolate bar in 1866. The

Goo Goo Cluster The Goo Goo Cluster is an American candy bar created in 1912 by Howell Campbell and the Standard Candy Company in Nashville, Tennessee. The disk-shaped candy bar contains marshmallow nougat, caramel, and roasted peanuts covered in milk chocolate ...

was the first mass-produced combination bar, including

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, nougat, caramel, and roasted

s. In some varieties of English and food labeling standards, the term ''chocolate bar'' is reserved for bars of solid chocolate, with ''candy bar'' used for products with additional ingredients.

Non-chocolate bars

Candy bars containing no chocolate include: * Abba-Zaba: taffy with a peanut butter center *

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: a taffy based candy that comes in multiple flavours * Big Hunk: nougat center covered with peanuts *

Bit-O-Honey Bit-O-Honey is an American candy product; it first appeared in 1928 and was made by the Schutter-Johnson Company of Chicago, Illinois. Bit-O-Honey was a new kind of candy bar consisting of six pieces wrapped in waxed paper and then packaged in ...

: honey-flavored taffy with almond bits *

Carambar Carambar is a brand of chewy caramel candy from France, owned by Eurazeo. History In 1954, Mr. Fauchille, director of the Delespaul-Hazard company, and Mr. Gallois, an employee, had a surplus of cocoa and decided to create a new, original recipe ...

: caramel-based candy * Caramac: caramel-based candy *

Chick-O-Stick Chick-O-Stick is a candy produced by the Atkinson Candy CompanyChoo Choo Bar: liquorice-based candy *

Laffy Taffy Laffy Taffy is an American brand of taffy candies produced by the Ferrara Candy Company, a subsidiary of Ferrero. The candies are small (about ), individually wrapped taffy rectangles available in a variety of colors and artificial fruit f ...

: a taffy based candy that comes in multiple flavours *

Mantecol Mantecol is the brand name of a typical dessert of the cuisine of Argentina,

: a peanut butter nougat bar * Munch: peanut brittle-like candy *

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: peanuts and caramel *

Salted Nut Roll Salted Nut Roll is a candy bar made by the Pearson's Candy Company of Saint Paul, Minnesota and is available in the Midwestern United States. Description It has a nougat center that is surrounded in a layer of caramel and then covered with s ...

: nougat center covered with caramel and peanuts *

Turkish Taffy Turkish Taffy Is a "chewy" (usually hard and crunchy) taffy-like candy bar, which comes in several flavors. History Turkish Taffy was invented in 1912 by Austrian immigrant Herman Herer, who sold the rights to M. Schwarz & Sons of Newark, New ...

: taffy-based candy * Wazoo: taffy center covered with sprinkles *

Zagnut Zagnut is a candy bar produced and sold in the United States. Its main ingredients are peanut butter and toasted coconut. History The Zagnut bar was launched in 1930, by the D. L. Clark Company of western Pennsylvania, which also made the Clar ...

: peanut brittle wrapped in toasted coconut

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* {{commonscat-inline, Candy bars Confectionery

Chocolate bars

Non-chocolate bars

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