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Candy is a sweet confectionary made from sugar. Some candies are known as Chocolates, Hard candies, Gummies, Gum, Gobstoppers and so much more. Sugar is too bad for you because according to research, sugar tricks your brain into thinking that you need more sweets. Also it can overload your liver. How this is affected is when there is fructose in our body which we don’t need. Instead we need glucose in our body which we anyways produce. Sugar can sometimes be a good thing. Dark chocolate can be a good thing. It can prevent heart disease since, it has the seeds of the cocoa which is the richest part of the cocoa bean instead of the sugary stuff that you would have in regular milk chocolate. One of my favorite candies is gum. My favorite brand of gum is Wrigley. Wrigley makes …show more content…
The first step in making the gum is by melting and purifying the gum base. Gum base is the “chew” of the gum. Next, the melted base is poured into a mixer that can hold up to one ton of ingredients. Sweeteners and flavors are added at just the right moment and in just the right amounts and then slowly mixed. This is what makes Wrigley gum so flavorful like the Watermelon and the Orange flavored Wrigley: “Extra Gum”. Thirdly, from the mixers, a large "loaf" of gum is sent through a series of rollers that form it into a thin, wide ribbon. Each pair of rollers is set closer together than the previous pair, gradually reducing the thickness of the gum. A light coating of powdered sugar or sugar substitute is added during this process to keep the gum from sticking from each other and to enhance flavor of the gum. Additionally, the gum is scored and cut into equivalent pieces for a varied gum type like, Extra, 5, Juicy Fruit and Hubba Bubba. In the final steps, the gum is stored in a temperature-controlled room to cool. After tempering, the gum centers are broken into individual pieces. The pieces are then fed to a spray drier that forms the crunchy
Candy is a sweet confectionary made from sugar. Some candies are known as Chocolates, Hard candies, Gummies, Gum, Gobstoppers and so much more. Sugar is too bad for you because according to research, sugar tricks your brain into thinking that you need more sweets. Also it can overload your liver. How this is affected is when there is fructose in our body which we don’t need. Instead we need glucose in our body which we anyways produce. Sugar can sometimes be a good thing. Dark chocolate can be a good thing. It can prevent heart disease since, it has the seeds of the cocoa which is the richest part of the cocoa bean instead of the sugary stuff that you would have in regular milk chocolate. One of my favorite candies is gum. My favorite brand of gum is Wrigley. Wrigley makes …show more content…
The first step in making the gum is by melting and purifying the gum base. Gum base is the “chew” of the gum. Next, the melted base is poured into a mixer that can hold up to one ton of ingredients. Sweeteners and flavors are added at just the right moment and in just the right amounts and then slowly mixed. This is what makes Wrigley gum so flavorful like the Watermelon and the Orange flavored Wrigley: “Extra Gum”. Thirdly, from the mixers, a large "loaf" of gum is sent through a series of rollers that form it into a thin, wide ribbon. Each pair of rollers is set closer together than the previous pair, gradually reducing the thickness of the gum. A light coating of powdered sugar or sugar substitute is added during this process to keep the gum from sticking from each other and to enhance flavor of the gum. Additionally, the gum is scored and cut into equivalent pieces for a varied gum type like, Extra, 5, Juicy Fruit and Hubba Bubba. In the final steps, the gum is stored in a temperature-controlled room to cool. After tempering, the gum centers are broken into individual pieces. The pieces are then fed to a spray drier that forms the crunchy