Then there’s the yellow #5, red #40 and blue #1 dyes that make the product pop in the supermarket Passover candy display. “I love the fruit slices!” said Larry Banker, a dentist from ...

As Samira Kawash explains in the 2013 book “Candy: A Century of Panic and Pleasure,” by the end of the 19th century, American children could buy jelly beans, candy corn, licorice, toffee and ...