What Is Your Favorite Candy

NEW YORK —Like sour candy more than other flavors? It'due south possible you might be an extrovert. That'due south just ane takeaway from a new survey of 2,000 candy lovers which finds a person'southward preference for sure sweets may say a lot about their personality and lifestyle choices.

In add-on to beingness extroverted (59%), sour processed connoisseurs also identified themselves every bit more "eccentric" (53%), "funny" (50%), and "sarcastic" (51%). Meanwhile, chocolate lovers tended to describe themselves as "optimistic" (76%) and "shy" (67%). Fans of mint were well-nigh probable to say they're "thoughtful" (78%).

Conducted on behalf of Jelly Belly Candy Company in advance of National Jelly Bean Day on April 22, the survey past OnePoll also digs deeper into the habits and beliefs of sweets lovers.

America has a serious sugariness tooth

People who eat candy every day were more likely to identify equally "nighttime owls" instead of "early birds," (43% vs. 17%).

Overall, three in four respondents eat candy at least one time a calendar week, and more than 1 in iv (27%) merits to eat information technology every day. While 42 percent would offering to share their candy with friends or family members, nearly two in 10 would go on information technology all to themselves – including twice as many women than men.

The poll too asked its ii,000 respondents – all of whom expressed a fondness for jelly beans beforehand – to pick their all-fourth dimension favorite jelly bean flavor for even more specific personality mapping.

"National Jelly Bean Day offers one day a yr for season feuds that dominate the jelly bean world to take center stage," says Rob Swaigen, Vice President of Global Marketing at Jelly Abdomen Candy Company, in a statement. "Whatever flavour you prefer, we love any opportunity to celebrate what makes you uniquely yous through candy."

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What do your candy preferences say most you?

Sour lemon jelly bean fanatics mirrored their sharp-tongue gustation preferences in their personality, with 69 per centum identifying as "honest."

Cherry jelly bean lovers were more probable to be dog people (38%), while buttered popcorn lovers favored cats (43%) — and cotton candy fans are almost likely to consider themselves not animal people (xiii%). Age may also play a factor in the blazon of jelly edible bean flavour you prefer. Virtually one in v baby boomers say licorice is their favorite, compared to only six percent of Gen Z.

For pear jelly bean lovers, "eccentricity" is a common personality type. Shut to six in 10 align with that clarification, putting them alongside cherry (68%) and buttered popcorn (59%) fans as the most likely to consider themselves eccentric.

Merely considering 2-thirds (67%) of orange jelly bean lovers similar to volunteer in their complimentary fourth dimension doesn't mean they'd give lottery coin to a charitable cause. Orange lovers were too the nigh likely to invest the money if they won (38%).

Even so, blood-red jelly bean lovers are going off the grid. Perchance because 79 per centum place as introverts, 29 percent would purchase their ain individual island if they won the lottery.

"Just as no two personalities are akin, no 2 flavor preferences are akin either," Swaigen adds.