Utah’s King of Candy for Halloween in 2024

Everyone has a favorite treat for the Halloween season. And for certain there is no shortage of options when it comes to candies to hand out at the door. So the question on the mind of many is what candy is the most popular for Halloween in Utah in 2024?

The Top Contenders

It appears that some form of chocolate is very popular in running for sure, according to Instacart the top ten candies ordered this year are:

• Reece's Peanut Butter Cups
• M&M's
• Snickers
• Peanut M&M's
• Twix
• Kit Kat
• Hershey's Milk Chocolate
• Milky Way
• Sour Patch Kids
• Skittles

Utah's candy trends in the past

For many years Peanut Butter Cups have been very popular in the beehive state as well as Tootsie Pops, Candy Corn, M&M's, and Peanut M&M's. As it would seem Utahn's love the combination of peanut(butter) and Chocolate. In fact Reece's Peanut Butter Cups have been the number one candy in the country for many years. However last year in 2023 sour candies had an increase in popularity with candies such as Sour Patch Kids, and Sour coated Gummy Bears as an alternative with concerns of people with allergies.

The Numbers are in

So who is the King this year of the Candy Mountain in 2024? For the Country as a whole according tocandystore.com M&M's have taken the top spot nation wide over Reece's Cups. But the Surprise winner for Utah this Halloween with 423,474 lbs. sold online is Candy Corn.  Tootsie Pops came in second for UT with 340,621 lbs. and M&M's third with 251,506 lbs. sold.

Something For Everyone

As stated before there is no shortage of options when it come to satisfying your sweet tooth.  For many chocolate is always a crowd pleaser, many like to pucker the lips to a sour treat, Halloween is fun for all ages.