name: Other Candy

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source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Other candy

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name_scientific: null

description: Candy, also called sweets or lollies, is a confection that features sugar as a principal ingredient. The category, called sugar confectionery, encompasses any sweet confection, including chocolate, chewing gum, and sugar candy. Vegetables, fruit, or nuts which have been glazed and coated with sugar are said to be candied. Physically, candy is characterized by the use of a significant amount of sugar, or, in the case of sugar-free candies, by the presence of sugar substitutes. Unlike a cake or loaf of bread that would be shared among many people, candies are usually made in smaller pieces. However, the definition of candy also depends upon how people treat the food. Unlike sweet pastries served for a dessert course at the end of a meal, candies are normally eaten casually, often with the fingers, as a snack between meals. Each culture has its own ideas of what constitutes candy rather than dessert. The same food may be a candy in one culture and a dessert in another.

itis_id: null

wikipedia_id: Candy

picture_file_name: 701.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 103989

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:41:40.000Z

legacy_id: null

food_group: Confectioneries

food_subgroup: Candies

food_type: Type 2

created_at: 2011-12-07T00:19:12.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:05:30.000Z

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updater_id: 2

export_to_afcdb: false

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ncbi_taxonomy_id: null

export_to_foodb: false

public_id: FOOD00679