While the ingredients of candy corn — sugar, corn syrup, confectioner’s glaze, salt, gelatin, honey, sesame oil, and artificial flavors and dyes — seem run of the mill, eagle-eyed consumers ...

Candy is mostly made of sugar and corn syrup, but it also contains salt, sesame oil, honey, artificial flavor, food colorings, gelatin and confectioner’s glaze. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY ...

Candy corn was first made using sugar, water, corn syrup, fondant (water, sugar and corn syrup), marshmallow (sugar, water and gelatin) and a little wax. Originally, candy corn was made by hand.