Look at the sugar in a soda. No nutritional value what so ever. Awful for your teeth. Is it candy? I think not. Think about the sugar free hard candies. Are they still candy if they don't have sugar? Yes, they are hard candies. Just because something has or doesn't have sugar in it doesn't determine what it is. And for the record, DH said no and DS said maybe, it depended. He's 14, what does he know anyway!