I dont think the consumers of cheap candy products care tbh. Hershey and similar tiered chocolate all have emulsifiers like polyglycerol polyricinoleate and lecithin. If something is sold at a gas station, its bad for you.
No level of "clean lab report" healthiness would convince me that the mediocre-at-best tastes and feel-kinda-crappy after-effects of cheapo chocolates were worth paying for.
Lmao, how is this downvoted? I'm not even on the "all American food is bad" but Hershey's is disgusting. Full of butyric acid. I remember standing in a German chocolate museum, reading about post-war American chocolate and realizing why I feel like I have post-vomit "heartburn" after eating 2 whole squares of Hershey's. It's gross. I'll die on this hill.