National Candy Corn Day is today, an October 30 holiday. Halloween isn’t the same without a bowl of this sweet candy sitting on the counter, ready for you to grab a handful. Enjoy a handful of this sweet Fall treat. And, what perfect timing. National Candy Corn Day comes just a day before Halloween. That means you can eat plenty of it before you put your Halloween costume on and go out Trick or Treating.

You can enjoy this candy all year long. Place it in a candy dish any time of the year, and watch it disappear by the handful. Americans consume the vast majority of candy corn during the Fall months. Halloween and Thanksgiving are the biggest times to eat it.

Candy Corn Trivia

• Candy corn was originally called “Chicken Feed”. Aren’t you glad they changed the name!?
• Invented in the 1880s by George Renninger, candy corn was first manufactured by the Wunderle Candy Company in Philadelphia, Pa.
• The Goelitz Candy company was the first to manufacture mass quantities around the turn of the century.
• The original way to make candy corn, was to pour each color separately into molds, a very long, time-consuming process.
• Today, the Jelly Belly factory has a machine that produces 1200 kernels per second!
• Candy corn consists primarily of corn syrup, honey, and sugar. There are lots of carbs(sugar), but it’s fat-free!?
• 19  pieces of candy corn has 38 grams of sugar.
• People consume over 35 million pounds, or 9 billion pieces, worldwide annually.