CANDY: It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for — OK, probably not, but we’re excited.
CandyStore.com has announced the most popular jelly bean flavors and worst Easter candy for 2021.
In Pennsylvania, the most popular flavor of jelly beans is cinnamon, with black licorice coming in second, and blueberry coming in third place. Cinnamon was the top flavor in the U.S., too, for the second year in a row.
Black licorice came in second place, followed by buttered popcorn, cherry, juicy pear, coffee, watermelon, root beer, cotton candy and orange, at number 10.
Number 11 was sour-flavored jelly beans. While the flavor just missed the top 10 nationally, folks in New York and Nebraska ranked it number one.
Number 12 was coconut, followed by toasted marshmallow, chocolate, green apple, blueberry, strawberry, grape, banana and bubblegum at number 20.
Six states ranked black licorice as the number one flavor — Colorado, Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey and Tennessee. Seven states went with buttered popcorn: Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Michigan, Missouri, Texas and West Virginia. Six states and Washington, D.C, went with cherry as the favorite flavor: Hawaii, Iowa, Maryland, New Mexico, South Carolina and Utah.
Nine states went with cinnamon — Pennsylvania, Virginia, Arizona, California, Delaware, Kansas, North Carolina, North Dakota and Ohio.
CandyStore.com offered some jelly bean facts, too.
In the early 1900s, jelly beans were only sold in individual flavors. Jelly beans were the first confection to be sold by weight. Some 16 billion jelly beans are manufactured for Easter season alone, and many jelly beans could make it 1/3 of the way to the moon.