confectionery

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The company said fourth-quarter profit declines for its North America Confectionery segment were driven partially by higher commodity and tariff costs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

Confectionery historian Alex Hutchinson said many confectioners were lowering the amount of cocoa ingredients in their chocolate in favour of cheaper alternatives.

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2025

Confectionery creativity has made its way back to the United States, where pastry chefs are looking past cloyingly sweet treats smothered in chocolate sauce and ooey-gooey cookies that send you into a sugar coma.

From Salon • Jul. 13, 2025

Since he was working in what was then the country’s candy-manufacturing center, he shifted gears and founded what would become the New England Confectionery Co., or Necco.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2023

Confectionery is often poisoned with Prussian-blue, Antwerp-blue, gamboge, ultramarine, chrome yellow, red-lead, white-lead, vermilion, Brunswick-green, and Scheele’s green, or arsenite of copper!

From The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages by Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor)