The environment in which we have grown has conditioned us in several ways, in different degree from people to people, in your case your taste is conditioned to compare the sweets with candies' sweetness, which is very very high, you will understand what I'm saying with this example, if you're the kind of people that like his food a little spicy but then eat something from places that use huge amount of peppers and other hot spices, you maybe wouldn't be able to eat those foods but people from those places that eat the food you consider tasty and spicy will immediately look into Hillary's purse for the hot sauce bottle cause for them that food is bland. All excess are bad -sweets, spices, etc- but if we just focus on taste in my case a sweet as sweet as candy is too much, not saying I dislike candies, but there are things for my taste that don't need to have a generic taste like just sugar with a little bit of "X" -maple in this case- but a nice taste of "X" with the right doze of sweet.