Ingredients levels

Ingredient Drop levels are one of the five level types in Candy Crush Saga. This level type's icon is green with a white downwards arrow. Ingredient Drop levels first appear in Candy Factory, the second episode, and the first ingredient drop level is level 11.

Ingredient drop levels are the second most common level type, with 99 levels currently, making up 24% of all levels. The current trend is 3 or 4 ingredient levels per episode. Some earlier episodes had 5, and Bubblegum Bridge had 7.

Ingredient drop levels are considered easier than jelly levels, but there are still some very hard ingredient drop levels, such as 158, 181 and 361. Earlier ingredient drop levels tend to be much easier than later ones.

ObjectiveEdit
To win ingredient drop levels, the player must bring all the required ingredients down to the bottom of the board (or anywhere where there is a green arrow).

There are 2 types of ingredient a player will have to bring down: cherries and chestnuts. Some levels require cherries, some require chestnuts, and some require both. A certain number of each will have to be brought down to complete the level. 10,000 points are awarded for each ingredient collected.

The ingredients fall like normal candies. They come in through the top of the board, usually after another ingredient has been cleared. Some levels start with the ingredients already on the board, and in levels 217 and above, sometimes the ingredients come out of a dispenser.

When all ingredients has been collected, a striped candy is made for every move remaining, giving 3,000 points for each. Then each of the striped candies activate themselves.

Trivia

 * Early ingredient drop levels are much easier than later ones.


 * Bubblegum Bridge has 7 ingredient drop levels - the most of any episode


 * Wafer Wharf has only one ingredient drop level. It is the only episode to have more Timed levels than ingredient drop levels.
 * Episode 28 has only 2 ingredient drop levels.
 * The 100th Ingredient Drop Level will be featured on Episode 29


 * Objective/Order levels are catching up to ingredient drop levels in appearances. There are 97 ingredient drop levels, and there are 83 objective levels. The gap is closing by one or two every episode.


 * About 1 in 4 levels are ingredient drop levels.
 * Levels 87, 187, 287 and 387 are all ingredient Drop levels.

Notable Ingredient Drop Levels

 * Level 11 -  First ingredient drop level


 * Level 181 -  Supposedly the hardest ingredient drop level, and one of the hardest levels in the game


 * Level 200


 * Level 221 -  Only level in the game where the layout and colour of candies at the start is totally set


 * Level 357 -  The most ingredients in a single ingredient drop level that needs bringing down - 9 of each