Sweet confections made with sugar or artificial sweeteners, often flavored and colored. Any sweet treat or confectionery item.
From Arabic 'qandi' meaning made of sugar, from Persian 'qand' meaning cane sugar. Entered English through Old French 'sucre candi' meaning crystallized sugar.
Candy was originally medicine - ancient physicians used honey and sugar to make bitter remedies palatable, leading to the phrase 'a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.' The modern candy industry exploded after the Industrial Revolution made refined sugar affordable for the masses.
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