Editing Kit Kat (section)

== Ingredients ==
Kit Kat filling was revealed to be (or at least contain) crushed up Kit Kat, in [[BBC Two]]'s ''[[Inside the Factory]]''.<ref>[https://www.usmagazine.com/food/news/kit-kats-have-a-surprising-ingredient-in-their-filling/#:~:text=As%20it%20turns%20out%2C%20a,filled%20with%20other%20Kit%20Kats "What’s Actually in a Kit Kat? The Candy Bars Have a Surprising Ingredient in Their Filling"]. ''Us'' magazine. Retrieved 26 May 2024</ref>

Original Kit Kat ingredients unless otherwise stated, listed by decreasing weight: milk chocolate ([[sugar]], milk ingredients, [[cocoa butter]], [[cocoa mass]], [[Whey|whey powder]], [[lactose]], [[Soybean|soya]] [[lecithin]], [[polyglycerol polyricinoleate]], natural flavour), [[wheat flour]], sugar, modified [[palm oil]], [[Cocoa bean|cocoa]], [[sodium bicarbonate]], soya lecithin, [[Baker's yeast|yeast]],  and natural flavour.

=== Europe ===
Milk chocolate (66%) (sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, dried [[whole milk]], cocoa mass, lactose and proteins from whey, whey powder, [[Emulsion|emulsifier]] (sunflower lecithin), butterfat, flavouring), wheat flour, sugar, vegetable fat, cocoa mass, yeast, [[leavening agent|raising agent]] (sodium bicarbonate), salt, [[emulsifier]] (soya lecithin), flavourings.

In 2006, the UK four-finger Kit Kat contained 233 dietary [[calorie]]s (kcal) (975 [[kilojoule]]s). In 2009, the two-finger Kit Kat contained 107 calories.

In 2013, the UK Kit Kat Chunky contained 247 calories which reduced to 207 calories in 2015. This correlated to a reduction in weight by 19% from 48&nbsp;g to 40&nbsp;g.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kitkat.co.uk/kitkatcollection|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130707050126/http://www.kitkat.co.uk/kitkatcollection|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 July 2013|title=KIT KAT Collection|publisher=[[Nestlé]]|access-date=5 May 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.easier.com/29099-a-low-calorie-treat-from-kitkat.html|title=A low calorie treat from KitKat|publisher=Easier|date=16 January 2008|access-date=5 May 2013}}</ref>

=== United States ===
Hershey's Kit Kat Crisp Wafers in Chocolate contain sugar, wheat flour, cocoa butter, nonfat milk, chocolate, refined [[palm kernel oil]], lactose (milk), milk fat, contains 2% or less of: soy lecithin, [[Polyglycerol polyricinoleate|PGPR]] (emulsifier), yeast, artificial flavor, salt, and [[sodium]] bicarbonate.

=== Canada ===
Milk chocolate (sugar, milk ingredients, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, whey powder, lactose, soya lecithin, polyglycerol polyricinoleate, natural flavour), wheat flour, sugar, modified palm oil, cocoa, sodium bicarbonate, soya lecithin, yeast, natural flavour.

Dark chocolate: cocoa mass, sugar, wheat flour, palm kernel, palm, [[coconut]] and vegetable oils, modified milk ingredients, cocoa butter, sunflower and soy lecithins, yeast, sodium bicarbonate, [[Calcium sulfate|calcium sulphate]], salt, protease, xylanase, natural flavours.

=== Asia ===
[[File:HK CWB 銅鑼灣 Causeway Bay 羅素街 Russell Street Times Square pop-up stall Kit Kat February 2022 Px3 01.jpg|thumb|right|Kit Kat pop-up stall in [[Times Square (Hong Kong)|Times Square, Hong Kong]] in 2022]]
In Japan, Kit Kats are produced at Nestlé-owned factories in [[Himeji]] and [[Kasumigaura, Ibaraki|Kasumigaura]].  The milk chocolate used for Kit Kats is made from whole-milk powder and Nestlé buys most of its cacao beans from West Africa.<ref name=Rao>{{citation |last=Rao |first= Tejal |title=Big in Japan: the story of how Kit Kats became a booming business from Hokkaido to Tokyo and changed expectations about what a candy bar could be. | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=24 October 2018|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/24/magazine/candy-kit-kat-japan.html}}</ref>

Nestlé has factories in various locations in China, to supply to China and [[Hong Kong]]. During the [[2008 Chinese milk scandal]], where [[melamine]] was found to have tainted some milk suppliers in China, importers in [[Hong Kong]] chose to import bars manufactured in the United Kingdom.