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I love candy!Candy is really good. I love it!

I always used to eat candy without reading so much as the name of the bar. Then my mom started telling me how bad the ingredients were. I started doing some research on the Internet.

A lot of websites said some of the ingredients were bad too. But this confused me because the government approved their use in candy bars.

I'm going to tell you what I found out about different ingredients.

Have a Wickertricks

There are a lot of different ingredients out there, so I will combine a bunch into a made-up candy bar called Wickertricks. 

This candy bar has a lot of good ingredients, and a lot bad ones.  I’ve taken these ingredients from a lot of candy bars you see every day:

Wickertricks Ingredients:

• Chocolate
• Egg whites
• Skim milk
• Sunset Yellow
• High fructose corn syrup
• MSG
• Artificial food coloring

Now I wouldn’t worry about ingredients like chocolate, egg whites, or skim milk.  Those are pretty healthy. 

But let’s look at the rest of the ingredients in my made-up candy bar...

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