Wondering what candy to get your kids? Here’s Rhode Island’s Easter favorite candy

For adults, depending on their faith, Easter means a complex and diverse set of ideas involving loss, eternal gratitude and the return of hope.

For kids, no matter who they are, Easter just means candy.

For many children, the real main event is the Easter Egg Hunt, where the main objective is to cover as much ground as possible to find special plastic eggs that typically house candy.

The cherubic cry of joy that a child lets out when he or she has found and cracked open a pastel egg shell is a moment that isn’t easily forgotten by parents, aunts, uncles or just anyone present who is old enough to remember how happy the simple things used to make them.

So you would want to make the right choice of candy, right? But searching through the grocery aisles, it can be hard to choose which candy you should buy for Easter.

Luckily, USA Today made a map of each state’s most popular search result when it comes to “Easter Candy.”

Here’s Rhode Island’s most popular Easter Candy.

Rhode Island’s favorite Easter candy

According to Google search data collected by USA Today, Rhode Island’s most searched Easter candy is gummies.

If that seems strange and you were expecting Peeps or chocolates, that would make sense as most of the states on USA Today’s map of most-searched “Easter candy” had the flavored, bird-shaped marshmallows as their most searched Easter candy, even two New England states had them as their most popular candy of the holiday.

Shoppers spending more money on candy than anything else this Easter

Easter spending is expected to go up in 2025, according to a recent National Retail Federation (NRF) report, with consumers planning to spend a total of $23.6 billion.

The overwhelming majority of Americans who celebrate Easter do so with the assistance of candy, according to the National Confectioners Association. The top sweet treats bought for the holiday include chocolate eggs or bunnies, jelly beans, candy-coated eggs and marshmallow candy (AKA Peeps).

Mary Walrath-Holdridge contributed to the writing of this story.

Rin Velasco is a trending reporter. She can be reached at rvelasco@gannett.com