Candy vs. Lollipop — What's the Difference?

Offers a wide range of textures.

Production involves a specific process.

Variety accommodates many dietary needs.

Primarily hard and designed for sucking.

Consumed directly or used in recipes.

Often used as a convenient, no-mess treat.

A general term for sweet treats.

Comes in many flavors, sometimes with fillings.

Can include ingredients like nuts or chocolate.

Candy on a stick.

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.

A lollipop is a type of sugar candy usually consisting of hard candy mounted on a stick and intended for sucking or licking. Different informal terms are used in different places, including lolly, sucker, sticky-pop, etc.

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

A confection consisting of a piece of hard candy attached to the end of a small stick.

A piece of such a confection.

An item of confectionery consisting of a piece of candy/sweet attached to a stick.

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

Something having the shape of a lollipop: a linear stem connected to a round body.

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

A kind of sugar confection which dissolves easily in the mouth.

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

A piece of hard candy, often of discoid shape, attached to the end of a handle of wood or hard paper by which it is held in the hand while being licked; - it is popular with small children.

A piece of confectionery of this kind.

Ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stick;

Crack cocaine.

Hard candy on a stick

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Cocaine.

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

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

Coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze

Yes, most lollipops are hard candies, though some may have soft centers.

Candy is a broad category of sweet confections made with sugar and various flavorings.

Yes, there are sugar-free candies catering to dietary restrictions.

While primarily sugary, some candies are made with healthier ingredients or are sugar-free.

Candy is used for snacking, in desserts, as gifts, and decorations.

A lollipop is a type of hard candy attached to a stick.

Lollipops are made by boiling sugar syrup, adding flavor, shaping around a stick, and cooling.

Yes, some lollipops have chocolate or other fillings.

They're easy to distribute, enjoy without mess, and can be decorative.

Yes, chocolate is a type of candy, especially when combined with other ingredients.