Confectionery made mainly from sucrose sugar. Other ingredients include glucose, milk, nuts, fat (animal and vegetable), and fruit. Boiled-sugar candy contains sugar, glucose, color, and flavoring, and is boiled, cooled, and shaped. Chewing gum consists of synthetic or vegetable gum with color, flavoring, and sometimes sweetener added. Toffee and caramel are made from sugar, glucose, animal fat, milk, and cream or vegetable fat, heated and shaped. The US is the biggest producer of candy, though the UK has the highest consumption, with millions of pounds spent each year on advertising.
A rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts.
US

1. To conserve or boil in sugar.
2. To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy.
3. To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy.