Top 10 Best Sour Candies

Your tongue knows the deal before your brain admits it. Sour candy is pain dressed up as fun, and somehow you keep going back for another piece. From face-scrunching powders to chewy little sugar grenades, the best ones turn snacking into a tiny dare you willingly accept.

You chase that sharp first jolt, then the sweet payoff that makes the whole ridiculous exercise feel perfectly reasonable. Vote for the sour candies that make you pucker, squint, laugh, and question your life choices for three delicious seconds.

The Top Ten

  1. Warheads

    Unpopular opinion: Toxic Waste and Warheads are the same thing. They taste about the same to me, which is why they are right next to each other. But Warheads are higher because I tasted them first, and I LOVE the black cherry flavor.

    Sour Warheads were said to be the world's most sour candy throughout different countries, as well as the USA. You should change what you think about this because this is not the correct answer. So, in a way, you're lying to everyone. Please fix what you said. Thank you.

    I will give you three reactions from a great year at camp:

    Sister: Put it in and, after a split second, spat it out.

    Me: Got almost a burn on my mouth.

    Patrick: Actually ate it.

  2. Sour Patch Kids

    Sour Patch Kids are a type of soft gummy candy covered with a combination of invert sugar and sour sugar. This coating creates a flavor that is initially sour and then sweet, which is the basis of the brand's slogan. The candy was originally created by the Jaret International company in the 1970s and... read more

    I feel like Sour Patch Kids are the perfect mix of sweet, then sour. Also, they remind me of my childhood. Yeah, they are sour at first, but after a second, they go sweet, which I love. Also, does anyone else like to eat the citric acid at the bottom of the bag? I do.

    They're a great-tasting candy, but to be honest, Toxic Waste is a lot more sour.

    Sour Patch Kids give me a little kick, but they don't top Sour Skittles.

  3. Toxic Waste Candy

    Before I get hate, let me explain why. When I was like 10 years old, I ate so many that I lost feeling in my taste buds for a whole day. All around traumatic experience, so they're this low because they are just THAT sour.

    I did the Toxic Waste challenge, and I couldn't feel my tongue for a week! I do not recommend eating these all at once. Though, they are good.

    I think it should be first on the list. I have tried it before and looked it up, and it is the sourest candy on Earth.

  4. Trolli Sour Brite Crawlers

    So this is actually a biased one, I'll admit. My mom is obsessed with these and made me obsessed with them when I was a child. No regrets though. I like how they come in flavor combinations, and you can get different types of them.

    Eww, so gross, but I buy them and eat them still.

    I love gummy worms.

  5. Sour Skittles

    They are not actually very sour, either that or I have just gotten used to it, but they are really good. Normal Skittles are not good enough.

    They're so sour. I ate a box at the movies once, and they're the sourest things I ever tasted.

    I eat a pack and want every other pack. Tastes like heaven.

  6. Shock Tarts

    They actually became SweeTarts Chewy Sours now.

  7. Sour Power Belts

  8. Starburst Sours

  9. Sour Punch Straws

    I love these because they can make my face look like the fruit on the packaging. They are sour and colorful, and have that zing of sourness that I can't get enough of.

  10. AirHeads Xtremes

    I am OBSESSED with AirHeads Xtremes strips. I don't even know why. They're not that sour, but they still have a small zing, even if it's not as much as Sour Punch.

    11. The Newcomers
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    Fun Dip

    Kind of sour, yet not sour. It depends on the flavor you get honestly. It's not bad but it could be better.

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    Baby Bottle Pop

    I've never actually tried a Baby Bottle Pop, but I've heard they are pretty sour, so that's why it's on here.

    13. The Contenders

  13. Cry Baby Extra Sour Bubble Gum

    It was so sour I almost cried, and I had tears forming, but 10 minutes later, it's just regular gum.

    It's really sour.

    Best sour candy EVERRR.

  14. Sour Jolly Ranchers

  15. Lemonhead

    One of my favorite sour hard candies. Lemonheads are not that sour, which is why they are this low. But they have the citrus zing that I get from a lemon, which I love.

  16. Sour Juicy Drop

    Baba, these are so good. I will eat chocolate milk, milk, milk, milk because milk is good for your body, and soda is my love. It smells like doodoo, but it just tastes so good, good, good.

  17. Barnett's Mega Sour Lollies

    I haven't found anything more insanely sour than this. Don't even mention Toxic Waste or Warheads in the same sentence as Barnett's, as it ain't even close.

    Yep, these lollipops and their Mega Sour sweets are by far the most sour sweets I have ever tasted. Amazing work by Barnett's.

    They are even more sour than nuclear waste.

  18. Sour Pixy Stix

  19. Haribo Tangfastics

  20. Sour Punch Bites

  21. Toxic Waste Nuclear Sludge Chew Bars

    SUPER SOUR. Gosh, why did I try it?

    By Kiki

  22. Brain Blasterz

    One of the most sour candies I have tasted in my life.

  23. Life Savers Gummies Sours

  24. Tear Jerkers

    They really do jerk tears.

  25. Sour Gummy Worms

  26. Black Death Mega Sours

  27. Smog Balls

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