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Halloween Hierarchy the best and the worst candy picks

Last Sunday, after we had dinner, I left my football-watching family and headed out. My destination? Duane Reade. Once there I made myself comfortable in the candy aisle and went to work.   I had a candy segment the next morning and even amongst the junk I was trying to sort out the Halloween hierarchy. I texted Carolyn, if you can't reach me here's where I am First, I looked at sugar: Note: serving sizes vary so before I could compare candy, I need to do some advanced math and look at comparable serving sizes (1 bar for all chocolate or the equivalent for gummy stuff), you know “apples to apples” or in this case Airheads to Airheads. The sugar “stars” or best of the bunch were  Twizzlers, Dark Chocolate Kisses, Mounds and Nestle crunch. All of these had less than 8 grams (or 2 teaspoons) of sugar The scariest sugar? Candy corn by far, followed by Reeses, Skittles and 100 Grand. I also glanced at calories where Twizzlers led the the way again with York Peppermint Patty, Airhea...