Necco Wafers are a candy wafer made by the United States-based company Necco, short for the New England Confectionery Company. Necco started making candy wafers in 1847 and introduced the "Necco Wafers" brand in 1912. Necco rolls contain eight flavors and colors: lemon (yellow), orange (orange), lime (green), clove (purple), cinnamon (white), wintergreen (pink), licorice (black), and chocolate (brown).

Entire rolls of chocolate wafers are also available in certain locations. The company recently introduced a variant called "Smoothies", composed of creamy fruit flavors. Wintergreen Necco wafers, like wintergreen LifeSavers, will create visible sparks when snapped in half or crushed in dim light due to triboluminescence.

Necco Wafers contain gelatin, an animal by-product. Necco wafers are often used as stand-ins for communion wafers by children who are practicing for the Eucharist.[citation needed]

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