buyers' picks
UP-AND-COMING
NON-CHOCOLATE CANDY
Caffeinated chewing gum, pure maple candy,
made-to-order sea salt caramels and
superfruit chews are a few reasons why
the candy aisle is no longer just for kids.
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• Annie's Organic Bunny Fruit Snacks
Candy
• Confiserie Napoleon Hard Candies
• Chunks of Energy Carob Spirulina
• Droga Chocolates Big Bite Brittle
• Newman's Own Organics Sour Strawberry Licorice Twists
• Nirvana Chocolates Fruit-Shaped
Marzipan
• Panda Black Licorice
• Süss Sweets Sea Salt Caramels
Alphonzo Cross, The Boxcar Grocer, Atlanta, GA
• The Ginger People Gin-Gins Hard Ginger Candy
• The Ginger People Ginger Chewy Ginger Candy
• Glee Cinnamon Gum
• Newman's Own Organic Wintergreen Mints
• XyliChew Sugar-Free Peppermint Gum
Dawn Van Hee, Natural Candy Store,
Concord, CA
• Hillside Candy GoOrganic Ginger Chews
• JJ's Sweets Cocomels
• Lovely Candy Caramels
• Lovely Candy Superfruit Chews
• Surf Sweets Organic Fruit Chews
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PHOTOS (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP): CHUNKS OF ENERGY; LOVELY CANDY; HILLSIDE CANDY; NIRVANA CHOCOLATES; SÜSS SWEETS
Eric Lauterbach-Colby,
Food Conspiracy Co-Op, Tucson, AZ
Evelyn Ignatow, Hyde Park
Gourmet, Cincinnati, OH
• Brown Family Farm Pure Maple