National Candy Month: 5 sweet records + 1 you can break!

Hey there, sweet tooth squad! 👋

Did you know that June isn’t just any month… it’s National Candy Month!

I promise this is real, I’m not just making it up because I’d like some sweets. 😝

The annual celebration was founded in 1974 by the National Confectioners Association.

Fun fact – the global confectionery (sweets and chocolates) industry will make around $586,300,000,000 this year, according to Statista! 🫨

Now, let’s make this month as sweet as it can be by indulging in the most sugary Guinness World Records titles…

Largest gummy candy

Imagine a gummy sweet so large, it weighs as much as 9 lions! 🦁 🦁 🦁 🦁 🦁 🦁 🦁 🦁 🦁

Sounds too cool to be true, right?

Well, guess what? A Dutch company called Tanis, who manufacture candy-making machines, made this delicious dream a reality. 

Their gigantic gummy, weighing 1,728 kg (3,809 lb 9 oz), was 664,615 times bigger than a normal bear sweet! 🧸

How long do you think it would take to eat this colossal candy?

Largest display of candy varieties

Could this be the greatest place on Earth? 🤩

Just 2 months after opening their doors in Melbourne, Australia, Tom's Confectionary Warehouse broke the record for having the largest display of candy varieties.

As of 13 January 2024, the store housed 946 different types of sweets, from sour peach hearts to white chocolate frogs.

Imagine how hard it would be to choose your pick n mix selection from here! 🤔

What are your favourite types of candy?

Largest candy dispenser

Do you have a PEZ dispenser?

The regular-sized character-headed containers stand 11 cm (ft in) tall and hold a maximum of 12 sweets.

Yet there is one in existence that’s 40 times bigger! 📏

On display at the PEZ Visitor Center in Connecticut, USA, is the world’s largest candy dispenser, measuring 4.45 m (14 ft 7.25 in). 

Think about how many sweets you could fit in there! 😋

Most candy-coated popcorn caught in one minute (individual)

Do you prefer sweet or salty popcorn? Or both? 😜

Serial record breaker David Rush from USA added another certificate to his collection after catching 48 pieces of toffee-flavoured popcorn in his mouth within just 60 seconds. 🍿

Do you reckon you could beat this record? 

David holds over 100 GWR titles, including:

• Most cream filled biscuits stacked in 30 seconds (38) 🍪
• Most popping popcorn caught with both hands in 1 minute (36) 👐
• Most marshmallows caught in the mouth with a home-made catapult in 1 minute (77, with his record-breaking buddy Jonathan Hannon) 😮