Cotton Candy Research Paper

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How is cotton candy made or or why is it so dry when you bite into it. In a cotton candy factory they said cotton candy is made by sugar and they put it into a cotton candy machine and you can use food coloring. It’s really weird because cotton candy looks like cotton balls but don’t worry they don’t taste like cotton balls. Cotton candy is one of the weirdest candy ever because of how it looks like. But cotton candy is bad for your teeth because of all the sugar it has and it can also give you stomach pains that can you give you diarrhea. But some people are obsessed with it because of all the sugariness it has. And cotton candy is mostly sold at big events.. Here we go to in interviewer this interviewer said Cotton candy, candy floss, or tooth floss, and Fairy Floss is a form of spun sugar. According to the New York Times, the confection “is almost 99.99 percent sugar, with dashes of flavoring and food coloring.” …show more content…
At that time, spun sugar was an expensive, labor-intensive endeavor and was not generally available to the average person.Others suggest versions of spun sugar originated in Italy as early as the 15th century. Machine-spun cotton candy was invented in 1897 by the dentist William Morrison and confectioner John C. Wharton and first introduced to a wide audience at the 1904 World's Fair as "Fairy Floss’’with great success, selling 68,655 boxes at 25¢ per box (equivalent to $6 per box

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