�Super Mark Eats Sweets�
Chocolate & Candy Quick Facts
To be read out with a mouth full of sweets.
� Per capita, Americans eat an average of 26.2 pounds of candy each year, split almost equally between candy and chocolate.
� Chocolate is America's favorite flavor. A 1989 Gallupsurvey revealed that 48 percent of U.S. adults said they likechocolate best, compared to 15 percent who preferred berryflavors.
� Chocolate manufacturers currently use 40 percent of theworld's almonds and 20 percent of the world's peanuts.
� CMA members use about 3.5 million pounds of whole milkevery day to make chocolates.
� Seventy-one percent of American chocolate eaters prefermilk chocolate.
� The Midwest and the Northeast consume more candy perregion than the South, Southwest, West or Mid-Atlanticstates.
� The melting point of cocoa butter is just below the humanbody temperature -- which is why it literally melts in yourmouth.
� Americans consume over 3.1 billion pounds of chocolateeach year, or 11.7 pounds per person.
� Denmark has the highest per capita consumption of candyin the world at 29.5 pounds.
� About 65 percent of American candy brands have beenaround for more than 50 years.
Source: National Confectioners Association/ChocolateManufacturers Association