CAND BLOG

Candy Corn: A 100-year-old Classic of Pure Sugary Goodness

By Patrick Mylett / October 30, 2017
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Happy National Candy Corn Day! What better way to prepare for Halloween tomorrow than to talk about the iconic, century-old candy that still remains in our candy bags today? The candy corn is a tri-colored candy mimicking the shape of a corn kernel. It was first invented in the 1880s by the Goelitz Confectionery Company,…

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FNCE First-Timer

By Amanda Izquierdo / October 26, 2017
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This year marked the Academy’s 100th annual Food & Nutrition Expo & Conference (FNCE), hosted here in our city of Chicago. I feel lucky that I was able to experience FNCE for the first time at home and am thankful that I now have enough bars and snacks to last me until next year. Even…

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Adult Onset Food Allergies: What Are They?

By Kate Egan / October 22, 2017

Happy National Nut Day, everyone! While I usually love any excuse to celebrate a food holiday, this is one that I will have to sit out on. Similar to many other Americans with food allergies, I developed an adult onset allergy around age 22 – following both my mother and sister who developed the same…

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