Abstract: There exists a demand for providing a method and apparatus capable of sorting articles whose upper and lower attitudes are inverted, in a simple and positive manner, from among different-formed articles such as candies having upper and lower portions different in outside diameter.

Abstract: There exists a demand for providing a method and apparatus capable of sorting articles whose upper and lower attitudes are inverted, in a simple and positive manner, from among different-formed articles such as candies having upper and lower portions different in outside diameter.

Abstract: A delicious candy in which crystallized xylitol has been molded in a desired shape and which has a beautiful shape and gives a cooling feeling attributable to xylitol; and a process by which the candy can be easily and industrially continuously produced. The novel candy (1) has a layered constitution which comprises two opposed candy part layers (3) and, sandwiched between these, a xylitol crystal part layer (2) comprising xylitol as the main component, at least one ingredient selected among monosaccharides, disaccharides, and sugar alcohols obtained by reducing these, and a viscosity-lowering agent as essential components, the at least one ingredient and the viscosity-lowering agent being contained in given amounts based on the xylitol as the main component.