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 Chocolate covered Milk Duds | |
| Product type | Candy |
|---|---|
| Owner | Highlander Partners / Iconic IP Interests[1] |
| Produced by | The Hershey Company |
| Country | United States |
| Introduced | 1928[2] |
| Markets | Worldwide |
| Previous owners |
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| Ambassador(s) | M.J. Holloway & Co. |
| Tagline | Chocolatey, Caramely, and Rich with Milk Chewy. Not Gooey. |
| Website | hersheyland.com/milk-duds |
Milk Duds are a brand of candies made with chocolate, created in 1928[3] by Hoffman and Company of Chicago and now produced and marketed by The Hershey Company, under license from owners of the brand, Highlander Partners, a Dallas-based global private equity firm.
The candy, marketed in a yellow-orange theater-style box, is an irregularly shaped caramel disk with a confectionery chocolate coating of cocoa and vegetable oil.
At its original naming, according to Hershey, "milk" referred to the product's initial milk ingredient, and "dud" referred to failed attempts to create a spherical shape.
| Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz) | |
|---|---|
| Energy | 1,823 kJ (436 kcal) |
71.8 g | |
| Sugars | 51.3 g |
| Dietary fibre | 0 g |
15.4 g | |
| Saturated | 9 g |
| Trans | 0 g |
2.6 g | |
| Vitamins | Quantity %DV† |
| Vitamin A equiv. | 0% 0 μg |
| Vitamin C | 0% 0 mg |
| Minerals | Quantity %DV† |
| Calcium | 8% 102.6 mg |
| Iron | 0% 0 mg |
| Sodium | 11% 256.4 mg |
Amounts converted and rounded to be relative to 100 g serving. Hershey's listed serving size is 39 g or 13 pieces (above amounts are ~2.5641 servings or ~33 pieces). | |
| †Percentages estimated using US recommendations for adults,[4] except for potassium, which is estimated based on expert recommendation from the National Academies.[5] Source: MILK DUDS candy - Hershey's | |
- ^ "Highlander Buys Big Candy Portfolio". Private Equity Professional. April 30, 2018. Retrieved January 11, 2021.
The acquisition ... was made by Highlander through Iconic IP Interests
- ^ "MILK DUDS Candy". Hershey's. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
- ^ a b "HERSHEY'S | Milk Duds Candy". Hershey's. 2010-11-14. Archived from the original on 2010-11-14. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
- ^ United States Food and Drug Administration (2024). "Daily Value on the Nutrition and Supplement Facts Labels". FDA. Archived from the original on 2024-03-27. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Health and Medicine Division; Food and Nutrition Board; Committee to Review the Dietary Reference Intakes for Sodium and Potassium (2019). Oria, Maria; Harrison, Meghan; Stallings, Virginia A. (eds.). Dietary Reference Intakes for Sodium and Potassium. The National Academies Collection: Reports funded by National Institutes of Health. Washington, DC: National Academies Press (US). ISBN 978-0-309-48834-1. PMID 30844154. Archived from the original on 2024-05-09. Retrieved 2024-06-21.