# What is the most overrated candy?

> Some of these sell by the billion and some only come out in October. Which one gets more love than it earns?

*By YPB Team · Published October 16, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-most-overrated-candy*

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## Current results (no votes yet)

1. **Candy corn** — score 1000/1000
   The tri-colored Halloween kernel everyone buys and few finish.
2. **Kit Kat** — score 1000/1000
   Wafer fingers in milk chocolate, sold in hundreds of flavors in Japan.
3. **Tootsie Roll** — score 862/1000
   A chocolate-flavored taffy roll sold since 1907.
4. **Skittles** — score 764/1000
   Fruit-flavored chewy candies with a famous rainbow slogan.
5. **Reese's Peanut Butter Cups** — score 764/1000
   America's best-selling candy brand, and the one people defend hardest.
6. **Twix** — score 764/1000
   Cookie and caramel bars sold in pairs as Left and Right.
7. **Starburst** — score 647/1000
   Square fruit chews whose pink flavor fans fight over.
8. **Swedish Fish** — score 647/1000
   Chewy red fish-shaped candy first imported from Sweden.
9. **Snickers** — score 503/1000
   The world's best-known candy bar, sold as a meal replacement for decades.
10. **Toblerone** — score 0/1000
   Swiss triangular chocolate with honey and almond nougat.
11. **M&M's** — score 0/1000
   Candy-coated chocolate lentils, a staple since 1941.
12. **Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar** — score 0/1000
   America's original mass-market chocolate bar, known for its tangy taste.
13. **Sour Patch Kids** — score 0/1000
   Sour-then-sweet gummy kids with a cult following.
14. **Milky Way** — score 0/1000
   Nougat and caramel in milk chocolate, created in 1923.

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