The coating is about the same thickness on both sizes, but is wrapped around a smaller amount of filling. The rising popularity of the miniaturized candy bars coincided with a major shift toward healthy eating. Fun size gained traction not because the candy companies were trying to capitalize on a holiday, but because consumers liked them. Larger than the minis, but not nearly the size of full-size versions… How many fun size candy bars equal a full size? So go ahead and free up that schedule a little — pick this pack and never have to worry about picking a favorite again!

Here comes the number one best selling candy bar in the USA and one of the best candy bars in the world: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Mars Wrigley Australia moved its manufacturing of Snickers bars to China while the company’s Ballarat factory was undergoing an upgrade. In August it brought the bars back home – but the higher cost of manufacturing means they have shrunk. Dietician Desiree Nielsen warns that three ‘fun-size’ candy bars are nearly equivalent to a full-size chocolate bar.CNN) – Halloween treats are getting smaller due to shrinkflation and a move by candy companies to reduce calorie counts, The Washington Post reports. Five miniature Hershey’s milk chocolate bars, for example, contain 210 calories, 13 grams of fat and 22 grams of sugar — about the same as a full-size Hershey’s bar. These Hershey, Nestle, and Mars products are much bigger than bite-size miniatures, yet smaller than their full-size version. In 1968, it launched new candies that were slightly larger than the “junior” ones, but still smaller than Mars’ traditionally sized bars.