As a child, everything that is sweet and colorful catches our attention. As we grow older, we start to realize what we are really eating. Today, we have some facts about our childhood snacks, a top 12: facts about sweets?, to surprise you.

Cotton candy is delicious and especially sweet, so it is not the best product for dental hygiene. It turns out it was invented by a dentist, William James Morrison from Nashville, Tennessee.
The American Medical Association agrees that it is better for health to eat a lot of sweets at once than to eat a few throughout the day.
Have you seen the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory? It turns out that in the original version, most of the set was edible and not made of sterile materials like in the more modern film.
The famous Snickers chocolate and caramel bar was named after a horse, the favorite stallion of its inventor Frank Mars.
A curious fact is that the person who would become the inventor of the famous Hershey’s chocolate was supposed to be on the Titanic, but he got sick and couldn't travel.
It is believed that a lot of chocolate is consumed in the United States, but in Germany, they eat double per person each year. This results in 114 bars each year.
Just as chocolate can be bad for dogs, it can also poison humans if we eat it in excess. It happens rarely, but there have been people who end up in the hospital because their bodies cannot digest the theobromine found in cocoa.
The day of the year when the most sweets are consumed worldwide is Halloween, followed by Easter and finally, February 14th.
Most sweets that do not include chocolate are made by dissolving sugar in water. It all depends on the temperature at which you do it; high temperatures result in hard candies while low and slow temperatures lead to soft and chewy sweets.
July 20th is the day of the popsicle worldwide.
The first Hershey's Kiss appeared in 1906.
In Europe, during the Middle Ages, sugar was so expensive and rare that sweets were considered very exotic gourmet specialties.

If you are looking to make some sweets for the family that are a little healthier and delicious, here are three recipes that your family will love:

Dulce de leche balls

Sweet macarons

Cotton candy sweets