Question 1

What products does Reese's make?

Accepted Answer

Reese's makes peanut butter and chocolate candy. The peanut butter cup anchors the range in every size from Miniatures and Thins to Big Cups, alongside seasonal shapes such as eggs, pumpkins and hearts, and spin-offs like Reese's Pieces, Sticks and other candy bars. The brand also stretches into baking chips, snack mixes, filled pretzels and Reese's Puffs cereal, but candy is the core of it.

Question 2

What makes Reese's Peanut Butter Cups different?

Accepted Answer

The pairing: peanut butter made from roasted peanuts, set inside a ridged chocolate cup, the candy H.B. Reese created in 1928. The classic cup keeps a fairly short list, but it is not just peanuts and chocolate: it is sweetened with sugar and dextrose, preserved with TBHQ, and held together with the emulsifiers PGPR and soy lecithin. Seasonal shapes and many spin-offs go further, adding palm and other vegetable oils and artificial flavor, so the familiar shape on the wrapper says little about what is inside.

Question 3

Is Reese's healthy?

Accepted Answer

Reese's is candy, and it deserves a closer look. The large majority of the Reese's products we've scanned land in our lowest tier, Better Options Available. Added sugar runs through nearly the whole range, and the cups commonly add TBHQ, a preservative, along with PGPR and soy lecithin; the organic and plant-based cups are the main exceptions that rate higher. Before you buy, scan the exact pack in Trash Panda, especially seasonal shapes, which often bring in palm oil and artificial flavor.

Question 4

Is Reese's gluten-free?

Accepted Answer

Many Reese's products are labeled gluten-free, and Hershey publishes a list of the items it has evaluated as gluten-free, but the label is set product by product rather than across the brand. The cups themselves contain no wheat, while spin-offs built on wafers, pretzels or crackers use wheat flour. Reese's is also not a dairy-free brand: Hershey says only its Plant Based Reese's are vegan. Scan the specific product in Trash Panda to check it against your diet before relying on it.

Question 5

Who owns Reese's?

Accepted Answer

Reese's is owned by The Hershey Company, which is headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania. H.B. Reese, a former employee of Milton Hershey, created the peanut butter cup there in 1928 and built the H.B. Reese Candy Company around it. After his death in 1956 his sons ran the business, and in 1963 they merged it into Hershey.

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