The Atlanta-based company claims to be the first candy maker in the world to have completely overhauled its product line--including sour Suck Ups liquid candy, Super Sweet or Sour Blast spray candy, Xtra Sour Goo and Dream Chews--in 2004 to remove all refined sugars and replace them with fruit juice concentrate.

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That's just one of the interesting tidbits author Beth Kimmerle shares in her new book, Candy: The Sweet History.

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When you talk about kids eating too much sugar, the usual suspects come to mind: breakfast cereals, sweet snacks, desserts, and candy.

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Sparx candy by Xlear were sweet and didn't have the artificial sweetening aftertaste, while CocoaVia by Mars, Inc. was smooth and creamy, just the way a chocolate bar should be.

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As a boy, my earliest memory of being a customer revolves around a sweet old lady who sold penny candy from her porch to my friends and me on our way home from school.

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But Candy knew that this boy was neither sweet nor darling, and probably never had been.

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Mr. STEVE ALMOND (Author, "Candy Freak"): What drives the candy business is our irrational desire for sweet things in our mouth.

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Six chocolate lovers trying to indulge their sweet tooths, uh, teeth, will find a GPS tracker instead of a candy bar when they rip into their treats.

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