The purple glow snaremop is refering to is 'chromatic aberration'
I agree on several notes, to many candies, and not enough depth of field. It also looks slightly oberexposed.
Personally, the reflection doesn't bother me, it adds a little bit of depth and perspective to the image.
Like Peanut's the reflection doesn't bothr me at all. I like it.
As has been said the shot is over exposed a bit and is a bit busy.
Why not try fewer sweets and play with DOF?
A symmetrical pattern and play with the reflection?
I also think the purple fringing is more obvious on smaller, lower resolution compacts. At least I've found that to be the case in my experience although you don't say what camera you shot this with.