There may be less chocolate at the door this Halloween
CTV
If you're heading out trick or treating this Halloween, you may end up with more chips, gummies, licorice and other goodies rather than chocolate. Cocoa prices have spiked, and that could be playing a trick with what your kids come home with and what you give out on Halloween night.
If you’re heading out trick or treating this Halloween, you may end up with more chips, gummies, licorice, and other goodies in the treat bag – rather than chocolate.
Cocoa prices have spiked, and that could be playing a trick with what your kids come home with and what you give out on Halloween night.
“Chocolate prices have skyrocketed in the last year or so. It's at $7,700 a ton right now, which is double what it was last year,” Sylvain Charlebois, director of Dalhousie University's Agri-Foods Lab, said.
"You're likely going to see less chocolate, unfortunately. And I know that chocolate is very popular with the kids, with trick or treaters, but, yeah, chances are you're not going to see as much chocolate."
Charlebois also says ‘Shrinkflation’ may have an impact on the size of treats this season too.
Ottawa mother Mellina Brenton says she noticed last year there was already less chocolate.
"I'm more of a trick or treater with my children because I have four of them. And I've noticed that a lot of people are just giving out chips now instead of chocolate or candy,” Brenton tells CTV News Ottawa.
