Snickers is a

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made by the American company

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, consisting of

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topped with

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and

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s that is encased in

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. The annual global sales of Snickers was over $3 billion . In the United Kingdom, Snickers was sold under the brand name Marathon until 1990. A Marathon retro edition was sold exclusively at

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for three months in 2020.

History

In 1930, Mars introduced Snickers, named after the favorite horse of the Mars family. The Snickers chocolate bar consists of

, peanuts, and

with a chocolate coating. The bar was marketed under the name "Marathon" in the UK and Ireland until 1990, when Mars decided to align the UK product with the global Snickers name (Mars had marketed and discontinued an unrelated bar named Marathon in the United States during the 1970s which was similar to the UK's

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). There are also several other Snickers products such as Snickers mini, dark chocolate, ice cream bars, Snickers with

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s, Snickers with hazelnuts, Snickers with pecans, Snickers peanut butter bars, Snickers protein and Snickers with Extra Caramel, as well as espresso, fiery, and sweet & salty versions.

Ingredients

The early (1939) ingredients list includes white sugar, sweet milk chocolate, corn syrup, peanuts, milk condensed with sugar, coconut oil, malted milk, whites of eggs and salt. By 2019, the ingredients for the original bar had been refined to milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, chocolate, skim milk, lactose, milkfat, soy lecithin, artificial flavor), peanuts, corn syrup, sugar, palm oil, skim milk, lactose, salt, egg whites, artificial flavor.

Caloric value

The USDA lists the

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of a 2-ounce (57 gram) Snickers bar as . As of 2018, the United Kingdom bar has a weight of , with 245 kcal,Snickers 48g - Nutrition
marsnutrition.co.uk and the Canadian bar with 250 kcal.

Bar weight

Over the years, the bar weight has decreased: Before 2009, in the UK a single Snickers bar had a weight of . This weight was subsequently reduced to in 2009, and to in 2013. In the United States the listed weight in 2018 was 52.7 g. In Australia, Snickers bars were originally made locally and weighed , however in the late 2010s production moved to China and the bars were shrunk to . In 2022, production returned to Australia and bars further reduced in weight to .

Products containing Snickers

Containing approximately per bar, deep fried

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bars (including Snickers and

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) became a specialty in

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shops in

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in 1995, and in the early 2000s, became popular at American

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History

Ingredients

Caloric value

Bar weight

Products containing Snickers

Advertising

"It's so satisfying"

1984 Olympics

Not Going Anywhere For a While?

Snickers Feast

Super Bowl XLI commercial

Mr. T

NASCAR

FIFA World Cup & UEFA Euro Sponsorship

You're Not You When You're Hungry

Australian recall

Vein removal hoax

Snickers Products

See also

References

External links