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Kit Kat bars are made out of what, now?
Just in time for Halloween, a jaw-dropping new video goes inside the wafer bars, leaving many viewers stunned — and some even snickering — over the revelations.
Zack D. Films posted a viral clip on YouTube explaining the process of making the candy.
The video shows an American Kit Kat being broken in half. A close-up shot of the inside of the bars appears on screen.
“Some Kit Kats get broken while they are being made,” according to the clip.
“And instead of throwing them out, the company crushes them up and adds sugar,” Zack explains, adding that the crushed wafers are mixed into a paste. “And that’s what’s on the inside of a Kit Kat bar.”
Users ate up the info in the comments.
A user asked: “So then… what was the original Kit Kat bar made of???” Another inquired: “Have you ever wondered what’s in the Kit Kat bar inside of a Kit Kat bar?”
“The real question is how did the crushed up Kit Kat come in being?” someone else said.
“Thank god they don’t throw it out like other companies,” one pointed out.
“Tbh I’m not complaining, more Kit Kats means more happiness towards me,” a commenter joked.
Another chimed in: “That’s literally 100% more kitkat per kitkat.”
A 2015 episode of BBC’s “Inside the Factory” also explored this Kit Kat fact, as the crew went inside a Nestlé chocolate factory in the United Kingdom. While American bars are made by the Hershey Company, British sweets are assembled in Nestlé in York, England.
The English bars contain sugar, wheat flour, milk powders, cocoa and cocoa butter.
On the episode, manufacturers showed how the bars are made and noted how the team removes any candy that is deemed subpar or imperfect. The sugary confection would not be used if it wasn’t shiny enough, had too many exterior air bubbles or the wafers were off-center.
The ugly bars are not thrown away, but are recycled into new red plastic-wrapped sticks.
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