The Top 10 Bestselling Chocolate Bars
#10 KIT KAT
Kit Kat is a chocolate covered four-finger wafer biscuit bar created by Nestle. However, it is licensed under the Hershey’s Company in the United States.
Kit Kat was officially introduced in August, 1935. After it became successful in the United States and the United Kingdom, it was exported to other
countries such as New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, Canada and South Africa in 1940. Nestle produces Kit Kat in 13 different countries including Japan,
South Africa, UK, Bulgaria, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, India, Russia, Germany, Canada, Australia, China and Malaysia. Aside from chocolate, Kit
Kat is also served in different flavors, sometimes in limited edition. Since 2000, Nestle has produced over 200 flavors like green tea, banana, crème
brulee among others.
#9 - # Musketeers
3 Musketeers is a chocolate-covered fluffy whipped bar produced by the global confectionery
manufacturer Mars, Incorporated. 3 Musketeers is not for sale in other European countries and
different versions and flavors have come out such as the 3 Musketeers Mint, Chocolate Brownie Bar,
Truffle Crisp, Coconut, Hot Chocolate with Marshmallow and many others.
#8
Milky Way Bar
The Milky Way Bar is manufactured by Mars, Incorporated with
various versions in different countries. The American version is
made of chocolate-malt nougat and covered in milk chocolate with
caramel toppings while the European version has a nougat center
with no caramel toppings. The Milky Way Bar was created by Frank
C. Mars in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1923. The chocolate bar has
different calorie contents depending on the country
7. Mars
Mars is another chocolate bar manufactured by Mars, Incorporated. The
chocolate bar has various versions in the United States, Canada and the United
Kingdom. It was first manufactured in the UK in 1932 as the sweeter version of
another Mars Incorporated product produced in the United States. The U.S.
version of Mars was discontinued twice, first in 2002 and was re-launched in 2010 but was
discontinued again at the end of 2011. There have been several limited edition variants of Mars
released in different countries such as the Mars Lite, Mars Lava and Mars Fling, which is
available in Australia; Mars Midnight, which has become a permanent release in Canada but was
on limited edition in the UK; and the Mars Mini Eggs, which are available during Easter.
6. Baby Ruth
Baby Ruth is an American chocolate bar manufactured
by Nestle. It is made of peanuts, caramel and nougat
covered in chocolate. Nestle also produced the Baby Ruth Ice Cream Bar and
the Baby Ruth Crisp bars.
5. Butterfinger
Butterfinger is another Nestle product made from crisp
and flaky peanut butter bar covered in compound chocolate. The Curtiss
Candy Company invented Butterfinger in Chicago, Illinois in 1923. Nestle
bought the Butterfinger and Baby Ruth bars in 1990 from Nabisco, the biscuit
manufacturer which the Curtiss Candy Company was merged to. Nestle
released other Butterfinger products such as Butterfinger Ice Cream Bar,
Butterfinger Ice Cream Nugget, Butterfinger Crisp and more.
4. Hershey Chocolate Bar
Dubbed as “The Great American Bar”, Hershey’s
Chocolate Bar was first introduced in the 1900's. The Hershey Company
founder, Milton Hershey, developed the processing, which is still a trade
secret up to this day. Hershey’s Chocolate Bar became the first mass-produced
chocolate in the United States and Canada. Over the years, the Hershey’s
Company has produced a variety of bars with different flavors such as the
Special Dark Chocolate, Cookies ‘N Crème, Krackel and other limited flavors.
All standard-sized Hershey Chocolate Bars have 210 to 230 calories
3. Cadbury Chocolate Bars
The British confectionary company, Cadbury, is owned by Kraft
Foods under its confectionary business, Mondelez International, the unit that
is geared towards global snacks business. Cadbury is best known for its dairy
milk chocolate. Its founder is John Cadbury, a philanthropist and
businessman, who created the modern chocolate bar. He pioneered the
emulsification process of chocolates to make it become solid. From 1865 to
2012, there have been numerous Cadbury chocolate products such as
confectionery, beverages, biscuits and cooking products.
2. Toblerone
Toblerone is a popular chocolate bar known for its
triangular prism shape. It is owned by Kraft Foods, an American grocery
manufacturing and processing company. Its name is a combination of the
Italian word “torrone” (a type of nougat) and its creator Theodor Tobler. He
created the Toblerone in 1908 in Bern, Switzerland together with his cousin
Emil Baumann. Over 11 variants of Toblerone have been produced since the
1970's including the dark chocolate in a green or black triangular box, fruit
and nut, filled editions in a blue triangular box, which is a milk chocolate with
a white chocolate center; crunchy almond, snow-capped with white chocolate
peaks in a white/ silver triangular box and honeycomb crisp among others.
1. Snickers
Snickers holds the top spot for the bestselling
chocolate bar in the world. Made by Mars, Incorporated, Snickers has annual
global sales of $2 billion. The bar consists of nougat topped with caramel and
peanuts covered in milk chocolate. It was named after the Mars family’s
favorite horse when it was introduced in 1942. Since the 1970, it had
numerous variations including Snickers ice cream bar, Snickers dark
chocolate, Snickers almond, Snickers peanut butter and more.