Why Do Children Like Candy?
Children crave candy because the sugar which it contains largely is in such a condition that it is the most suited of all our foods for quick use by the body. It is actually turned into real energy within a few minutes after it is eaten.
All the things we eat are for the purpose of supplying energy to our bodies to replace the energy that our daily activities have dissipated. Nature takes the valuable parts of the foods we eat and changes them into energy. The waste parts she throws off. Many things we eat have little real value as food and many also nature has to work upon a long time before their food value is available in energy. Sugar, however, represents almost energy itself.
Children are, of course, more active than grown-ups. They are never still. They are, therefore, almost always burning up or using up their energy. They are also, therefore, almost always in need of food that can be made into energy, and as sugar does this almost more quickly than any other food, nature teaches the children to like candy or sweets.