Super Candy Labs
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Custom candy, designed from your tongue.

Scan your tongue and take a short taste quiz. We design candy stacks for you: your perfect candy, plus a couple more to try. Then remix them, or build your own.

Build your own
Free · about 90 seconds · Phone or laptop · No invite code
Example candy stack "Mango Chili Heatwave": mango gummy, lime gummy, crispy rice, cinnamon gummy layers, half-dipped, orange creamsicle, topped with chili-lime and sour powderAlso try
Example candy stack "Movie Theater Floor": crispy rice, caramel, milk chocolate, toffee layers, dark chocolate drizzle, topped with sea salt and candy pebblesPerfect match
Example candy stack "Blue Raspberry Brain Freeze": blue raspberry gummy, peppermint gummy, white chocolate, blue raspberry gummy layers, double-dipped, white then blue raspberry, topped with extreme sour and popping candyAlso try
§00The filmSCL-FLM-001
Fig. 00 — Tongue CheckSound on
§01ProgramSCL-PRG-001

We’re not guessing what you’ll love. We’re asking your tongue.

Every tongue is different. We scan yours, map it to six flavor axes, sharpen it with a short taste quiz, then design candy around what you told us. Layer by layer.

202 billiondifferent candies our menu can make: 39 layers stacked 2 to 4 high, 14 dip coatings, 27 toppings. Yours is one of them.
§02ProtocolSCL-SOP-002

Four steps. About ninety seconds. Candy designed for you.

Illustrated screens

  1. P-00 · Enroll

    Enroll

    Open beta, no invite code needed. Name, email and birth year, and you’re in the lab.

  2. P-01 · Scan

    Scan your tongue

    Ten seconds in front of your phone or laptop camera, analyzed on your device. Adults’ scan photos go into our private research dataset, or scan without saving.

  3. P-02 · Taste quiz

    Take the taste quiz

    Six quick taps: what your candy is made of, your flavors, how sour, the dip and the toppings. Your answers carry the most weight.

  4. P-03 · Your candy

    Get your candy

    We design custom candy stacks for you: your perfect candy, plus a couple more to try. Remix any of them, or build your own in the Candy Lab.

§03Candy LabSCL-STK-003

Candy we’ve designed.

Every Super Candy is a stack of 1×1-inch layers: chocolate, gummy, taffy, caramel, marshmallow, crispy rice, cookie, toffee. Dip it in one of 14 coatings, finish it with up to two toppings. A few example stacks from the Candy Lab:

Example candy stack "Movie Theater Floor": crispy rice, caramel, milk chocolate, toffee layers, dark chocolate drizzle, topped with sea salt and candy pebbles
Ex. 014 layers

Movie Theater Floor

  1. Crispy rice
  2. Caramel
  3. Milk chocolate
  4. Toffee
Dip
Dark chocolate drizzle
Top
Sea salt + Candy pebbles
Example candy stack "Campfire Meltdown": cookie, marshmallow, milk chocolate, caramel layers, half-dipped, caramelized white, topped with graham crumbs and sea salt
Ex. 024 layers

Campfire Meltdown

  1. Cookie
  2. Marshmallow
  3. Milk chocolate
  4. Caramel
Dip
Half-dipped, caramelized white
Top
Graham crumbs + Sea salt
Example candy stack "Mango Chili Heatwave": mango gummy, lime gummy, crispy rice, cinnamon gummy layers, half-dipped, orange creamsicle, topped with chili-lime and sour powder
Ex. 034 layers

Mango Chili Heatwave

  1. Mango gummy
  2. Lime gummy
  3. Crispy rice
  4. Cinnamon gummy
Dip
Half-dipped, orange creamsicle
Top
Chili-lime + Sour powder
Example candy stack "Birthday Cake Overload": white chocolate, strawberry gummy, marshmallow, cotton candy gummy layers, fully dipped, birthday cake, topped with rainbow nonpareils and edible gold
Ex. 044 layers

Birthday Cake Overload

  1. White chocolate
  2. Strawberry gummy
  3. Marshmallow
  4. Cotton candy gummy
Dip
Fully dipped, birthday cake
Top
Rainbow nonpareils + Edible gold
Example candy stack "Blue Raspberry Brain Freeze": blue raspberry gummy, peppermint gummy, white chocolate, blue raspberry gummy layers, double-dipped, white then blue raspberry, topped with extreme sour and popping candy
Ex. 054 layers

Blue Raspberry Brain Freeze

  1. Blue raspberry gummy
  2. Peppermint gummy
  3. White chocolate
  4. Blue raspberry gummy
Dip
Double-dipped, white then blue raspberry
Top
Extreme sour + Popping candy
Fig. 02 — Example stacks, layers shown as stackedCandy Lab renders
Build your own
§04Taste profileSCL-TP-005

Six Sprouts. One of them is you.

Sugar Bunny

Astrology for your tongue. Your scan finds your Sprout and your tongue Big Three (sun, moon and rising), your toxic trait, your best match, and the candy we designed around it. Made to be sent to the group chat.

Meet the six Sprouts →
Sugar Bunnyloves sweetSour Foxloves sourNight Owlloves dark and bitterCrisp Deerloves crunchyHoney Bearloves soft and meltyParty Penguinloves sweet-salty-spicy
Six people sticking their tongues out, each locked in a scanner reticle
Fig. 04 — Subjects, calibration setRender
§05ResearchSCL-TR-001

We read the science. Then we made candy out of it.

  1. 01Labs now count taste papillae on tongue photos with neural networks. [8–10]
  2. 02Sweet, bitter and umami each run on their own receptors — and sensitivity varies by person. [1–4]
  3. 03Whether bump count predicts taste is genuinely unsettled. We say so. [5, 6, 9]
Technical report · SCL-TR-001 · 16 referencesLingual Phenotyping for Personalized Confection DesignWhat real taste science says, what our scan does — and what it doesn’t.Read the paper →
§06Build your ownSCL-LAB-006

Already know what you like? Build it yourself.

The Candy Lab is a 3D candy builder. Start from scratch, from your palate type, or remix a stack we designed for you.

Open the Candy Lab
Layers2 to 4 sheets, 1×1 inch: chocolate, gummy, taffy, caramel, marshmallow, crispy rice, cookie, toffee and more
DipOptional, in one of 14 coatings
ToppingsUp to 2
PreviewLive 3D, on your phone or laptop
PriceFree to design
§07 · Access

What candy should you eat?

Build your own
Open beta · Free · About 90 seconds · No invite code needed