The ingredients are: corn syrup, sugar, peanuts, condensed milk, chocolate, partially hydrogenated soybean and/or cottonseed oil, natural & artificial flavor, salt, and soy lecithin.

[2] Squirrel Nut Caramels were originally made by the Austin T. Merrill Company of Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1890.

In 1915, it moved its factory again to 12 Boardman Street in the Area 4 neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts, where it remained until 1999.

[4] That year, the company was sold and moved to McKinney, Texas, where a nut-processing operation continues.

In 2003, the former factory building in Cambridge was converted to affordable public housing apartments.