Candy vs. Chocolate — What's the Difference?

A sweet confection made primarily of sugar.

A treat derived from the fermentation, drying, and roasting of cacao beans.

A sugary treat that can be hard or soft in texture.

A sweet treat that can be dark, milk, or white.

A sugar-based treat that comes in various shapes and sizes.

A confection made from roasted and ground cacao seeds.

An edible treat that can be chewy or gummy.

A product often combined with sugar, milk, or other ingredients.

A term that encompasses a range of sweet delights.

A versatile ingredient used in cooking, baking, and confectionery.

Candy, also called sweets (British English) or lollies (Australian English, New Zealand English), is a confection that features sugar as a principal ingredient. The category, called sugar confectionery, encompasses any sweet confection, including chocolate, chewing gum, and sugar candy.

Chocolate is a food product made from roasted and ground cacao pods, that is available as a liquid, solid or paste, on its own or as a flavoring agent in other foods. Cacao has been consumed in some form since at least the Olmec civilization (19th-11th century BCE), and the majority of Mesoamerican people - including the Maya and Aztecs - made chocolate beverages.The seeds of the cacao tree have an intense bitter taste and must be fermented to develop the flavor.

A rich sweet confection made with sugar and often flavored or combined with fruits or nuts.

Fermented, roasted, shelled, and ground cacao seeds, often combined with a sweetener or flavoring agent.

A piece of such a confection.

A beverage made by mixing water or milk with chocolate.

(Slang) An illicit drug, especially one, such as cocaine, that has a sugary appearance or a drug in pill form, such as MDMA.

A small, chocolate-covered candy with a hard or soft center.

To cook, preserve, saturate, or coat with sugar or syrup

A grayish to deep reddish brown to deep grayish brown.

Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.

Made or flavored with chocolate

A piece of confectionery of this kind.

Of a grayish to deep reddish brown to deep grayish brown.

Crack cocaine.

A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.

(uncountable) An accessory (bracelet, etc.) made from pony beads, associated with the rave scene.

A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.

(obsolete) A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.

(countable) A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.

(cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.

(uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).

(intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.

A black person; (uncountable) blackness.

(intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

Made of or containing chocolate.

To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.

Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color.

To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.

(slang) Black relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.

To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy.

To add chocolate to; to cover (food) in chocolate.

To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.

To treat blood agar by heating in order to lyse the red blood cells in the medium.

To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla.

Any sweet, more or less solid article of confectionery, especially those prepared in small bite-sized pieces or small bars, having a wide variety of shapes, consistencies, and flavors, and manufactured in a variety of ways. It is often flavored or colored, or covered with chocolate, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc.; it is often made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. Other types may consist primarily of chocolate or a sweetened gelatin. The term may be applied to a single piece of such confection or to the substance of which it is composed.

The beverage made by dissolving a portion of the paste or cake in boiling water or milk.

Cocaine.

A beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot

A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.

A food made from roasted ground cacao beans

A rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts

A medium to dark brown color

Coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze

Most candies are primarily made of sugar or syrup.

No, while many chocolate products are candies, pure chocolate or baking chocolate isn't typically eaten as candy.

Chocolate comes from cacao seeds, which originated in Mesoamerica.

Yes, many candies are either coated in chocolate or have chocolate as a main ingredient.

Yes, gummies are a type of chewy candy.

Yes, some candies are made using sugar substitutes and are labeled as sugar-free.

Dark chocolate contains more cacao and less milk compared to milk chocolate.

While it contains cocoa butter, white chocolate lacks cacao solids, differentiating it from dark and milk chocolate.

The roasted and ground cacao seeds provide chocolate's distinctive taste.

Yes, lollipops are a type of hard candy.

Chocolate is made by fermenting, drying, roasting, and grinding cacao beans.

Yes, individuals can have allergies to ingredients in both chocolate and other candies.

Yes, unsweetened chocolate is often used for baking.

Depending on the type, candies can have varied shelf lives, but many last for months if stored properly.

This is called "chocolate bloom," resulting from fat or sugar crystals rising to the surface. It's safe to eat but might alter the texture.