Confectionery

M&Ms, chocolate with a shell of coloured sugar.

Confectionery or sweets is a type of food that has a lot of sugar in it and is very sweet. It often includes things that are rich in artificial sweeteners, flavours and colourings. The words candy (North America), sweets (UK and Ireland) and lollies (Australia and New Zealand) are also used for the many kinds of confections. Confections are usually low in nutrients but rich in calories. Sweets can come from anywhere.

Confectionery Media

This Krokan is a traditional Swedish baker's confection.
Confectionery can be mass-produced in a factory.
Jordan almonds. Sugar-coated nuts or spices for non-medicinal purposes marked the beginning of confectionery in late medieval England.
Petits fours are baker's confections.
Depending on the chosen classification scheme, ice cream and chocolate confections may be treated separately or as part of sugar confectionery.
This gingerbread house has walls and roof made from cookie dough and decorations made from icing and sugar candy. Classification is sometimes challenging because products can overlap categories.
Rock candy is simply sugar, with optional coloring or flavor.
A bar of chocolate, which can either be consumed as-is or used as an ingredient in other dishes.
Verkaufsstand mit Karamellbonbons, sogenanntes Fudge

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