Calories of Candy Bars
Candy bars are made from the same basic ingredients: sugar, milk, butter, oil, eggs and
artificial flavors. However, chocolate can be milk chocolate, dark chocolate or white chocolate.
Other variations may include peanuts, caramel, almonds, toffee, crispy rice and peanut butter.
These are just a few examples, though. Candy bars also come in different sizes. There are
miniatures, fun size, regular and king size. There is no way to choose the best candy bar because
everyone has his or her own opinion.
This report deals with the calories in a variety of regular size candy bars. The research
resulted in thirty-six data points. All of the data was collected from the wrappers of the candy
bars. These candy bars can be found at Hucks and Doug’s Food Mart. Table 1 contains all of
the collected data points. Note that Table 1 also includes the name of the candy bars and the z-
score for each data point.
There were two surprises from the data collected. The range was only 100 calories.
Also, a majority of candy bars have 230 to 249 calories (see Figure 1). Table 2 also shows this
information and a percentage of how often it occurs.
The collected data was placed into four graphs. Figure 1 and Figure 2 show how
frequently calories appear in candy bars. Figure 3 shows how may candy bars of the sample set
have the same number of calories. The final graph, Figure 4, presents the lowest, highest and
quartile calorie amounts. The basic statistics information is located in Table 3.
In conclusion, this is just a sample of all candy bars. This report only provides the data of
thirty-six candy bars. The sample was randomly picked from the selection that was presented.
Calories Of Candy Bars
Candy Bar Calories Z-Score
Hershey's Milk Chocolate 230 -0.46
Hershey's with Almonds 230 -0.46
Hershey's Special Dark 220 -0.83
Snickers 280 1.35
Snickers Cruncher 230 -0.46
Milky Way 270 0.99
Milky Way Midnight 220 -0.83
Kit Kat 220 -0.83
Big Kat 290 1.72
Twix 280 1.35
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups 250 0.26
Nutrageous 280 1.35
Butterfinger 270 0.99
Zero 230 -0.46
100 Grand 190 -1.92
Almond Joy 220 -0.83
Mounds 250 0.26
Heath 210 -1.19
Carmello 210 -1.19
Nestle Crunch 230 -0.46
Whatchamacallit 230 -0.46
Baby Ruth 280 1.35
Hershey's Cookies and Crème 230 -0.46
3 Musketeers 260 0.63
Reese's Sticks 230 -0.46
Fast Break 270 0.99
Skor 220 -0.83
Mars 240 -0.10
5th Avenue 280 1.35
Pay Day 260 0.63
Nestle Crunch White 220 -0.83
Mr. Goodbar 270 0.99
Symphony 230 -0.46
Symphony with Almonds and Toffee Chips 240 -0.10
Twix Peanut Butter 280 1.35
Bit-O-Honey 190 -1.92
Table 1
Calories of Candy Bars
Calorie Limit Frequency Percent
190 to 209 2 5.56
210 to 229 8 22.22
230 to 249 11 30.56
250 to 269 4 11.11
270 to 289 10 27.78
290 to 309 1 2.78
Table 2
Calories Of Candy Bars
Mean 242.78 Variation 757.90 Quartile 1 220
Median 230 Deviation 27.53 Quartile 2 230
Mode 230 Quartile 3 270
Table 3
Cara Skaggs was a student at Southeastern Illinois College during the 2001/20002 and
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2002/2003 school years. She was a member of the college' SIFE team and PBL team. She was
a business administration / marketing. Cara is from Norris City, Illinois.
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Thank you, Cara, for allowing this report to be published on the college' homepage!