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Mike and Ike
Mike and Ike: chewy fruit candy brand launched 1940 by Just Born of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Original Fruits has five FRUCHEWY flavors; famous for its 2012 mascot breakup campaign and theater-box sales leadership.
Milka
Milka is a milk chocolate brand registered by Suchard on 19 March 1901, named from Milch (milk) and Kakao (cocoa), sold in lilac packaging with the Lila cow mascot, now owned by Mondelēz International and sold in over 15 countries.
Milky Way (chocolate bar)
Milky Way (US chocolate bar), also known as the Mars bar in Europe, is a Mars, Incorporated candy bar of nougat, caramel, and milk chocolate, introduced by Frank Mars in 1923 and named after a malted milk drink, not the galaxy.
Mondelez International
Mondelez International (Mondelēz International, Inc., MDLZ), the global snacks company spun off from Kraft Foods on October 1, 2012; $38.5 billion 2025 revenue, ~91,000 employees, Oreo, Cadbury and Milka brands, Europe its largest market.
Monster Munch
Monster Munch: British baked corn claw snack launched 1977 by Smiths as The Prime Monster, now a Walkers/PepsiCo brand; core flavours Pickled Onion, Roast Beef, Flamin' Hot; separate French Vico/Intersnack brand.
Mrs. Butterworth's
Mrs. Butterworth's is an American table syrup and pancake mix brand launched in 1961, sold in a bottle shaped like a matronly woman. Owned by Conagra Brands since 2018, it underwent a brand and packaging review in June 2020.
Nabisco
Nabisco, short for National Biscuit Company, is the American cookie and cracker brand founded in 1898, maker of Oreo, Ritz, and Chips Ahoy!, now owned by Mondelēz International after ownership by R.J. Reynolds, KKR, Philip Morris, and Kraft.
Nerds (candy)
Nerds: American crunchy, tangy-sweet candy pebbles launched 1982-1983 under Willy Wonka Candy Company (Sunmark), later Nestle, now Ferrara (Ferrero). Known for dual-chamber boxes and Gummy Clusters, which drove revenue from $50M past $700M.
Nerds Gummy Clusters
Nerds Gummy Clusters, also called Gummy Clusters, are a Ferrara Candy Company gummy-and-crunch candy launched in 2020, known for sales growth from $8 million to over $500 million and for overtaking Skittles as the top U.S. sugar candy.
Nestlé Purina PetCare
Nestlé Purina PetCare, formed in 2001 when Nestlé acquired Ralston Purina, is Nestlé's pet food business, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, selling Purina Pro Plan, Friskies, Felix, and Tidy Cats.
Newtons (cookie)
Newtons, formerly Fig Newtons, are Nabisco's soft fig-filled cookie bars, created in 1891 at the Kennedy Biscuit Works in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, using Henry Mitchell's dual-funnel machine and named after the town of Newton, Massachusetts.
Nutella
Nutella, the Ferrero hazelnut-cocoa spread launched in 1964 from Pietro Ferrero's wartime Giandujot paste; seven ingredients including 13% hazelnuts and palm oil; sold in 170 countries, about 365,000 tonnes yearly, with RSPO-certified palm oil since 2013.
Oh Henry!
Oh Henry! is a peanut, caramel, and fudge candy bar introduced in Chicago in 1920 by George Williamson, with disputed origins; Hershey makes the Canadian version, and Ferrara holds the US rights since 2018.
Oreo
Oreo: chocolate sandwich cookie brand created by Nabisco in 1912, now owned by Mondelēz International and sold in over 100 countries as the world's top-selling cookie. Outlasted predecessor Hydrox (1908); famous for Double Stuf, twist-lick-dunk marketing, and global localized flavors.
Parle Products
Parle Products, Indian biscuit and confectionery maker founded 1929 in Vile Parle, Mumbai by the Chauhan family; maker of Parle-G, world's largest-selling biscuit brand per Nielsen 2003; FY25 revenue Rs 15,568 crore, unlisted, promoter-held.
Parle-G
Parle-G is an Indian glucose biscuit brand from Mumbai, launched in 1939 as Parle Gluco and named the world's largest selling biscuit brand in 2003.
Peeps
Peeps are sugar-coated marshmallow chicks and bunnies made by Just Born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, since it acquired Rodda Candy in 1953; 2 billion a year, best-selling non-chocolate Easter candy, famously polarizing.
Pepperidge Farm
Pepperidge Farm, founded by Margaret Rudkin in Fairfield, Connecticut in 1937, is an American bakery brand owned by The Campbell's Company since 1961, known for Goldfish crackers, Milano cookies, breads, and puff pastry.
Pez
PEZ (PfeffErminZ) is an Austrian compressed peppermint candy created by Eduard Haas III in 1927, famous for its character-headed dispensers introduced in 1949 and made by PEZ AG (Traun) and PEZ Candy Inc. (Orange, Connecticut).
Pocky (ポッキー)
Pocky (ポッキー) is Ezaki Glico's chocolate-coated biscuit stick snack, launched in Japan in 1966 as the world's first stick-shaped chocolate confection, named for the pokkin biting sound, sold abroad as MIKADO, and a Guinness-record best-selling chocolate biscuit brand.
Polo (confectionery)
Polo is a ring-shaped mint brand, "the mint with the hole", launched by Rowntree's on 15 April 1948 and made since at Nestlé's York factory; variants include Original, Spearmint, Fruits, and Sugar Free mints approved by the Oral Health Foundation.
Pop Rocks
Pop Rocks is the original popping candy brand, hard candy gasified with carbon dioxide at about 600 psi, invented in 1956 by General Foods chemist William A. Mitchell and sold since the mid-1970s, now owned by Zeta Espacial.
Pop-Tarts
Pop-Tarts: Kellogg's (now Kellanova) shelf-stable toaster pastry launched September 1964 in Cleveland in four unfrosted flavors, developed by Bill Post's team in about four months and named after the Pop Art movement.
Post Consumer Brands
Post Consumer Brands, Post Foods + MOM Brands merger (2015), Lakeville, Minnesota-based Post Holdings subsidiary making cereal (Honey Bunches of Oats, Pebbles, Malt-O-Meal), Peter Pan peanut butter, and Nutrish, 9Lives, Kibbles 'n Bits pet food; #3 in US RTE cereal.
Pretzel sticks
Pretzel sticks: straight-rod form of hard pretzel, extruded, lye-dipped (1.25% NaOH, 90-93°C), baked; Pennsylvania-centered US industry, $2.75B category, 1,240 mg sodium per 100 g.
Pringles
Pringles: American stackable saddle-shaped potato crisps in a tubular can, launched by Procter & Gamble in 1968. Inventors Baur, Liepa, Wolfe. Owned by Kellogg 2012, Kellanova, then Mars since December 2025. Over 160 flavors, sold in 140+ countries.
Propitious Mango ice cream
Propitious Mango ice cream (Hong Qi Propitious) is a Chinese mango-shaped frozen dessert with a white chocolate shell and creamy mango filling that went viral on TikTok, sold in Asian supermarkets and later H-E-B.
Quaker Oats Company
The Quaker Oats Company, Chicago-based American food maker of Quaker oatmeal, Life cereal, Cap'n Crunch, and Quaker Chewy bars; trademark registered 1877, incorporated 1901, a wholly owned PepsiCo subsidiary since the 2001 merger.
Quality Street (confectionery)
Quality Street is a British assortment of wrapped chocolates and toffees launched in 1936 by Harold Mackintosh in Halifax, named after J.M. Barrie's play, made by Nestlé since 1988, famous for the Purple One, Green Triangle, and Christmas tins.
Quest Nutrition
Quest Nutrition, LLC is an El Segundo, California maker of high-protein, low-sugar protein bars, chips, cookies and shakes, acquired by Simply Good Foods in 2019 for $1.0 billion; Quest net sales grew from about $345 million to $863 million by fiscal 2025.