Are Reese's Pieces just peanut butter?

The candies, which as you may know come in orange, yellow, and brown colors, are only peanut butter-flavored. Chocolate is NOT an ingredient, despite sharing a name with the chocolate peanut butter cups, and the brown color, which I guess we all just assumed meant they were chocolate?!
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Is Reese's Pieces real peanut butter?

REESE'S peanut butter cups begin with roasting fresh peanuts for REESE'S one-of-a-kind peanut butter. The peanut butter and milk chocolate are then dropped and pressed into a mold that gives REESE'S cups their iconic shape.
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What are Reese's pieces made out of?

Ingredients: Sugar, partially defatted peanuts: partially hydrogenated vegetable oils (palm kernel oil and soybean oil), reduced minerals whey (milk), dextrose, contains 2% or less of: corn syrup, artificial color (blue 1 lake, red 40 lake, yellow 5 lake, yellow 6 lake), salt, soy lecithin, resinous glaze, modified ...
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Are Reeses Pieces the same as peanut butter M&Ms?

The Reese's Pieces has more sugar and less fat. The Peanut Butter M&M's have more fat and less sugar. This is probably because the M&M's are bigger and have a higher peanut butter/chocolate ratio.
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Why do Reese's Pieces not have chocolate?

Well, as it turns out our favorite peanut butter and chocolate candy pieces are more peanut butter than chocolate. To be precise, they're more peanuts, oil, syrup, artificial colors, salt, glaze, wax and milk.
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What You Should Know Before Eating Another Reese's



Why are Reese's so addictive?

Think about the best combinations: they're well-balanced. Just like Reese's cups are so addicting because they've got a bit of sweet and a bit of salty (similar to caramel corn or pretzel sticks dipped in frosting), dynamic duos seem to have a bit of opposite qualities.
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What is the outside of a Reese's Pieces?

Reese's Pieces consists of bite-sized pieces of candy filled with a peanut butter center in a crunchy shell.
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Can my dog eat Reese's Pieces?

Yes, dogs can eat a few Reese's Pieces since this occasional treat does not contain ingredients that are toxic to dogs such as raisins or chocolate. But we do not recommend that you give Reese's Pieces to your pup because they are not healthy.
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What do Reese's Pieces taste like?

They give you the same creamy, peanut buttery flavor you can't get enough of, without limiting you to one or two cups—you can pop those babies by the fistful.
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Is Reese's Pieces healthy?

Contain: 1 cup (serving): 88 calories, 5 grams fat, 2 grams saturated fat, 8 grams sugar. Stay away, since the grams of fat and calories can add up quickly. These chewy candies are high in fructose corn syrup and can also stick to dental work.
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Does Reese's use real chocolate?

Reese and Hershey were a match made in heaven

According to Business Insider, Reese always used fresh ingredients for the centers of his candies, as well as Hershey's chocolate.
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Do Reese's pieces have red dye?

An artificial red color approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (U.S. FDA) for use in foods, drugs and cosmetics.
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Are Reese's Pieces vegan?

All Reese's Pieces products contain milk, so they are not vegan. They also contain some other potentially non-vegan ingredients, as explained below. What is this? Reese's Pieces contain milk, which is of course not vegan.
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Is there more chocolate or peanut butter in a Reese?

The standard Reese's cup, meanwhile, was exactly the reliable 50-50 ratio of peanut butter to chocolate we know and love, making for the ultimate balance between salty and sweet. It felt right.
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Why is Reese's peanut butter different?

There are two reasons the ratio of milk chocolate to peanut butter is different between the shapes and traditional cups: The first is that the shapes are larger than the cups, but use about the same amount of chocolate. That means the rest of the area is filled with extra peanut butter filling (yum).
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Why do Reese's taste weird?

It all comes down to the chocolate ratio

Since the candy is still just a milk chocolate shell stuffed with peanut butter filling, why would it taste different depending on its form? According to Better Homes & Gardens, it all comes down to the ratio of the chocolate to the peanut butter.
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Why do Reese's taste so good?

While the chocolate is sweet and smooth, the peanut butter is salty and crumbly. When combined, it's an exciting experience for your taste buds — which is the dynamic sensory contrast at work. Seems like the food scientists behind the Reese's recipe got the balance of the chocolate and peanut butter down to a T.
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What is the number one peanut butter?

Jif leads the way in terms of peanut butter sales. And that's no mistake. When it comes to the best tasting peanut butters, Jif is easily the cream of the crop. While Skippy is creamier and Adams is more natural, Jif is the tastiest and has the most flavor.
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Is there any chocolate in Reeses Pieces?

The candies, which as you may know come in orange, yellow, and brown colors, are only peanut butter-flavored. Chocolate is NOT an ingredient, despite sharing a name with the chocolate peanut butter cups, and the brown color, which I guess we all just assumed meant they were chocolate?!
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How many Reeses can a dog eat?

In order to know whether your dog may have chocolate poisoning I would need to know how many of the Reeses and what size he ate. At 60lbs of body weight he can eat about 30 average size peanut butter cups without suffering chocolate intoxication. However he may get gastro-intestinal problems.
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Does Reese peanut butter have xylitol?

Does Reeses peanut butter contain xylitol? Hi! This product does not contain xylitol. We will include it in the ingredients list if present.
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Why is Reeses orange?

However, orange is the predominant color of the wrapper for Reese's products and the color most associated with the candies, which Hershey's ensured by putting a trademark on the use of the hue as a background color for chocolate packaging (via The Counter).
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Why does Reese's use the color orange?

In the world of candy, Reese's distinct shade of orange tells the consumer that a tasty peanut butter and chocolate treat resides within the packaging.
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Do Reeses Pieces have milk in them?

Vegans Should Not Eat This Candy!

Reese's Pieces contain milk, and this is one of two reasons why the candy is unsuitable for people who follow the vegan diet. Resinous glaze is an animal-exploiting ingredient that might not seem like it just from the name.
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